Bucolica Et Georgica

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Bucolica Et Georgica
Virgil
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Vitulos is emphatic : you must prepare for their education while they are still calves. Columella (6. 2) says that you must not begin to break them in (domare) 'before the third year, ' but adds that even while calves (vituli) you should accustom them to being handled and tied up. When they are being actually broken in he calls them iuvenci or buculi, and certainly vitulos cannot describe animals three years old, so that either Virgil uses the word loosely or, more probably, in his use of horta...re he is thinking of these preliminary steps which precede the breaking in and are 'an entering on the path to it' (viamque insiste domandi), just as in 182 186 he describes preliminary training of the same kind for a colt as soon as it is weaned. Hence a full-stop should be placed after aetas 165, not a comma as in Conington.
165. Faciles animi iuvenum] As in hortare, so here he speaks of them as young children, faciles, ' easily dealt with, ' 'docile. ' mobilis, 'pliant. ' 166. Circles] Only here, by syncope from circulus ; cf.


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