Note 84 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
Of bending figure.] So also Virgil, Georg. i. 169:
Young elms, with early force, in copses bow, Fit for the figure of the crooked plough. Dryden.
Dr. Martyn, in his comparison of Virgil’s plough with that of Hesiod, has fallen into the mistake of the old interpreters who render γοην dentale, the share-beam: whereas γυην is burim, the plough-tail, to which the share-beam joins.