Georgics I 204 ff.

It’s just as much concern for us
to watch how Stars behave
As for the ones returning homeward
on the Wind and Wave,
Who tempt the oyster-bearing jaws
of a Bottomless Grave.

So note the day that balances
the night with equal Hours:
When Light and Shadow split the globe
in half, employ such powers
That drive the Beast and sow the Seed
before the Winter Showers.

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Seres (the silk-people) can finally read, in their own language, a full text translation of Vergil's Georgics, after more than two thousand years of its initial publication.

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