Cattle plague by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 299 - Scenes from Virgil) 1607-1677
"Round wooded Silarus and the ilex-bowers
Of green Alburnus swarms a winged pest-
Its Roman name Asilus, by the Greeks
Termed Oestros- fierce it is, and harshly hums,
Driving whole herds in terror through the groves,
Till heaven is madded by their bellowing din,
And Tanager's dry bed and forest-banks.
With this same scourge did Juno wreak of old
The terrors of her wrath, a plague devised
Against the heifer sprung from Inachus."
-Virgil, Georgics 3
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| Cattle plague by Wenceslaus Hollar (Plate 299) 1607-1677. |
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https://hollar.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/hollar%3AHollar_k_0303
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