Poetry

Georgicon

by Virgil

Four books on farming: crops, vines and trees, cattle and horses, and bees. Virgil turns practical advice into some of the most beautiful verse in Latin, and ends with Orpheus losing Eurydice. Dryden called it the best poem of the best poet.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 55 minutes

Where to find it

The Latin Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #231. In the public domain in the United States.