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Virgil
"Georgica Aeneis"
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175 points for entire Activity
Poem = 150 pts
Exercise total = 25 pts
(Read the background and translate the poem into English - 150 pts)
Background: Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), or Virgil, as he
is more commonly called, was born in a mountain village north of
Rome. Even though he became Rome's epic poet during the height of
Augustus's reign, Virgil never lost his love for the countryside
and for simple pleasures. His three major poems, the Eclogues,
the Georgics, and the Aeneid, contain frequent references to
pleasant groves of trees, hard-working farmers, harvest time, and
informal peasant festivities.
This bucolic or rural
verse, taken form Book IV of the Georgics, is both a praise poem
for bees and their mannerisms as well as advice for establishing
and managing a hive:
Mel: Caeli Donum
Mel, donum e caelis-
Spectaculum mirum
orbis parvi
Atque duces magnanimos et
mores et |
mel-honey
spectaculum-sight
mirum-wonderful
orbis-world
magnanimos-greathearted
mores-customs
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Studia
et populos et
proelia describo.
Labor est parvus; sed gloria
non parva est.
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studia-tastes
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Deligo casam
tranquillam
pro apibus meis
Sine ventis aut ovibus
aut capris
Qui flores vastant aut
rorem amovent.
Expello lacertum et aves
qui apes edunt. |
deligo-I
choose
apibus-bees
ventis-winds
ovibus-sheep
capris-goats
vastant-destroy
rorem-dew
amovent-brush away
lacertum-lizard
edunt-eat
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Apes ad aquas puras
loco.
Invenio palmam aut oleastrem
umbrosum.
Quando in vere regina nova
congregationem educit,
Et iuvenes ex alvo
errant,
Ad silvas volant
ad flores
Et ex aquis
leviter bibunt.
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palmam-palm
tree
oleastrem-olive tree
umbrosum-shady
vere-in the spring
congregationem-swarm
iuvenes-young
alvo-hive
bibunt-drink |
Hic vides
congregationem
volantem
Ad caelum per aerem
clarum aestivum
Petunt aquas dulces et
ramos occultos.
Tum sedent more suo in cellis. |
volantem-flying
aerem-air
aestivum-summery
dulces-sweet
ramos-branches
occultos-hidden
more suo-as is their custom
cellis-cells
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Exercises
| A. |
Underline the word that best completes each of
the following sentences according to the poem: - 10pts. |
- Bees like to fly in swarms through the (spring, summer, fall, winter) air.
- In the spring, young bees
stray from the (palm trees, branches, flowers, hive).
- A good location for a hive
is (under a shady olive tree, near sheep, in the wind,
far away from the forest).
- The (young bees, queen, calm spring air, peaceful waters) lead(s) the swarm from the hive.
- (A hive in flight, A shady branch, Honey, Warlike glory) is a heavenly gift.
- Bees have their own (goats and sheep, customs, hidden caves, ways of avoiding lizards).
- The small (queen, leader, sweets, world) of the beehive is a strange sight.
- Goats compete with bees for flowers and brush away the (palm trees, dew, lizards, birds).
- The farmer should place a beehive near (airy, vast, light pure) water.
- The poet describes the leaders of a swarm as (greathearted, moral, sweet, hidden).
| B. |
Locate a word in the poem that is related to the
italicized word in each sentence and write it in
the line provided: 15 pts
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Avery is a Pisces, but his brother is a Capricorn._______ Knights errant wandered around the world in times of yore._______ Is the flower of the clover edible?________ Mrs. Perry took a sedentary job at the bank.________ Tranquillity is the high point of my vacation.________ Few people study any occult sciences more.________ This committee requires intense collaboration.______ An apiary is a home for bees.______ Aggregate rock is not so valuable as crystal._______ Gary, levity has no place at an assembly!_________ The article explained the nature of the vernal equinox.________ The fall hurricane season often devastates beaches.________ Phyllis made a few florid touch-ups to the poster._______ Aeration and filtration are effective methods of water purification._______ Josh is loved for his magnanimity.______
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