Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)
“[R]ight and wrong are mixed up here, there’s so much warring everywhere,
evil has so many faces, and there is no regard for the labours
of the plough. Bereft of farmers, fields have run to a riot of weeds.”
- From Virgil’s Georgics (Book 1, approximately between lines 483-507), translated by Peter Fallon (The Gallery Press, 2004, and later Oxford World Classics, 2006, 2009).
