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3.6 myrtle-indolence. Myrtle (Myrtus communis) is an aromatic shrub native to the Mediterranean region and associated with Venus, the goddess of love.
3.8 Ascrean Poet. Hesiod (c. 700 BCE), who was from the Greek village of Ascra in the Valley of the Muses on Mt. Helicon. Contemporary of Homer and known for the Theogony and Works and Days, which is considered to have influenced Virgil's Georgics.
3.8 sacred Mount. Mt. Helicon.
3.9 swain. A country or farm laborer, a shepherd.
3.11 Maro. Virgil or Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BCE), author of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid.
3.12 Dyer. John Dyer (1699-1757), Welsh painter and poet, author of the georgic poem The Fleece (1757), which Grainger reviewed in the Monthly Review (April 1757).
3.12 Pomona's Bard. John Philips (1676-1709), English poet, author of the georgic poem Cyder (1708). Pomona is the Roman goddess of fruit.
3.13 Smart. Christopher Smart (1722-1771), English poet, author of the georgic poem The Hop-Garden (1752).
3.13 Sommerville. William Somerville (1675-1742), English poet, author of the georgic poem The Chace (1735).
4.22n Lucan. Lucan (CE 39-65)...