“O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.”
Umida<!--Humida?--> solstitia atque hiemes orate serenas,
agricolae.
Umida solstitia atque hiemes orate serenas,
agricolae.
Book I, lines 100–101
Georgics (29 BC)
“A wet summer and a fine winter should be the farmer's prayer.”
Georgics, Book I, p. 39
Translations, The Poems of Virgil Translated Into English Prose (1872)
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