Note 3 — BOOK III.
Rowland Smith translation
Compare Virgil's description of the way of passing a northern Winter.
"Ipsi in defossis specubus secura sub altâ Otia agunt terrâ, congestaque robora totasque Advolvere focis ulmos, ignique dedere. Hie noctem ludo ducunt, et pocula læti Fermento atque acidis imitantur vitea sorbis." G. iii. 376.