Commentary on Virgil

In that time, mountains were everywhere / that is, in every place and time where
and before, under the beech tree, he speaks or alleges with fervor
it is most honored, as if under the authority
of the acorn-bearing tree, which was the most ancient.
For in the past, men used to feed upon acorns.
Whence also the beech Latin: fagus is named from phagesin from eating The author derives the Latin fagus from the Greek phagein (to eat), referring to the ancient practice of eating beechmast.
this seems to be said: he lies under the shade of the beech.
In the fields then, your retained possessions
by which they were nourished, just as they were nourished by acorns.
f. spreading.

before mortals. In the spreading, "wide-spreading" Latin: patula
f. open.

It is said that what is "open" Latin: patet is so by nature, like a tree;
a tree is "open," but "to be opened" Latin: patene is truly that which is both opened
and closed, like the eyes of a door. Reclining Latin: Recubans
Reclining or resting under the cover,
under the abundance of the age. The woodland muse Latin: Silvestrem musam
A rustic song. However, the "slender" Latin: Tenuia stalk,
the straw from which rustics were very often accustomed
to sing. Elsewhere: "a song sent forth on a strident straw."
By leading, however, the slender oat-pipe Latin: avena...
he shows it to be humble and hidden, as was
said above regarding the Bucolics. You meditate Latin: Meditaris
Meliboeus

Which grace he shows through antiscorhen Likely a corruption of the Greek rhetorical term antistrophe or a similar grammatical figure.
"I meditate" brings forth the Latin / it is rightly d...
f. l. e. d.

sometimes they return to themselves in the world, whence a seat Latin: sella
is named for a seat from "sitting." As for us, we flee our fatherland Latin: patria fugimus
It is more than if he said "we leave."
Or at that hour. Slender reeds...
of which to flee, "pliant" Latin: lenti as in idle...
pliant, diligent... To resound.
You teach the woods [to resound] "Amaryllis." That is, by your account
composed concerning your friend Amaryllis,
you teach the woods to sound. And it is better that
we understand this simply. Therefore, some wrongly
wish for an allegory: "You, Tityrus..."