Note 213 — Chapter IV · NOMADISM AND AGRICULTURE.

Ovid also begins with the life of the fields; his golden age is distinguished from the others only in this, that:

Ipsa quoque immunis, rastroque intacta, nec ullis

Saucia vomeribus, per se dabat omnia tellus;

and

Mox etiam fruges tellus inarata ferebat:

Nec renovatus ager gravidis canebat aristis.

(Metamorph. I. 101–2, 109–10.)