Georgics

"Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti."

"Charmed with the foolish whistling of a name."

"[Virgil] delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind of grandeur: he breaks the clods and tosses the dung about with an air of gracefulness."

"The best poem by the best poet."

"Cum "Georgica" scriberet, traditur cotidie meditatos mane plurimos versus dictare solitus ac per totum diem retractando ad paucissimos redigere, non absurde carmen se more ursae parere dicens et lambendo demum effingere."