Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/267/en

How strongly human ratio gradually begins to alter and articulate the given conditions of nature, Virgil's poetry reveals in his Georgics. He — the Roman from Mantua, still breathing thoroughly the Greek spirit — gives there in poetic word a comprehensive view of agricultural practices in the century before the Turning Point of Time: in arable farming, the ploughing, hoeing, sowing, harvesting and threshing; the significance of fallow and crop rotation; soil irrigation; the overgrazing of too-luxuriantly proliferating grain; seed care; weather observation; and attention to the course of the stars, and more besides — in fruit-growing, vegetative propagation and the technique of grafting, of pruning, which tree species