Letter 3024: Here we are, idling in the countryside and enjoying autumn in all its variety.
We here are passing our time in country leisure and enjoying the autumn season in manifold ways. For after we have committed the new wines to the casks, which have flowed forth once pressed by lime and the wine-press, the Sicyonian berry is crushed in the oil-mills, so that the early-ripe olive may be softened for the use of green oil. Meanwhile the lair of the wild beasts at this place rouses us to the beating of the coverts, so that the farmer, uncertain, runs about to his various duties. Some with ladders [...]
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Latin / Greek Original
Nos hic in otio rasticamnr et multimodis autumnitate defruimur. nam postquam
doliis nova vina commisimus, quae calce et prelo subacta fluxerunt, trapetis teritur 5
baca Sicyonia, ut praecox olea in usum olivi viridis mulceatur. interea loci ferarum
domus indago sollicitat, ut incertus agricola in ofGcia diversa discurrat. alii scalis
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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