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arva in its strict sense of ‘ploughed land’ would be inappropriate, but the word, though it kept that sense, as in Hor. Epp.I. xvi. 2, was also used generally, as in I. 598 of woodland. Cf. Hom. Od.IX. 107: “θεοῖσι πεποιθότες ἀθανάτοισιν οὔτε φυτεύουσιν χερσὶν φυτὸν οὔτ᾽ ἀρόωσιν, ἀλλὰ τάγ᾽ ἄσπαρτα καὶ ἀνήροτα πάντα φύονται.”
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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