[525] Tacet omnis ager may refer to the cessation of the toils of husbandry, though it is not to be restricted to that sense. The pointing of this line depends on the view we take of v. 528: if it is spurious, ‘pecudes’ &c. must be constructed with ‘tacet:’ if genuine, they form a new sentence as subjects to ‘lenibant.’ ‘Pecudes pictaeque volucres’ G. 3. 243 note.
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