{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/texts/8657/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"edition":{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/editions/1/?format=json","descriptions":[{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/descriptions/424/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"created_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033306Z","updated_at":"2021-05-06T21:10:04.033317Z","description":"Paton edition"}],"edition_type":0,"metadata":{},"created_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z","updated_at":"2021-04-08T21:27:25.406000Z"},"unique_id":99999025,"created_at":"2021-07-18T18:53:49.026299Z","updated_at":"2021-07-18T18:53:49.026307Z","validation":0,"status":1,"text":"January: From me opens the door of the solar\r\nyear and the sun looks on the supreme magistrates\r\nof Italy.¹ February : I wet the land with thick\r\nsnowflakes, making it pregnant with the splendour\r\nof spring. March : Mars begins from me, and\r\nflowers and sweet milk, and on my twentieth day\r\nnight and day are equal. April : Let the gardener\r\nnow cut shoots and graft tame branches on wild\r\nstems. May : Now the sea is open ; equip the\r\nships ; it is time to sail them out of the untroubled\r\nharbours. June : I am half way between the rose and\r\nwhite lily, and I am heavy with branches of yellow\r\ncherries. July : The Sun crosses Cancer, and the hus-\r\nbandman with his sickle cuts the ripe ears. August :\r\nI separate the corn from the straw, and in Leo the\r\nfountains of the Naiads are at their purest. September:\r\nI am heavy with grapes and all kinds of fruit, and\r\nagain night and day become equal. October : Who\r\ncan be sweeter than me, who pour forth wine when\r\nI bring Bacchus from the vineyard to the press ?\r\nNovember : If thou hast Pallas' olive-trees it is time\r\nto press the fruit and remember thee of labour.\r\nDecember : I bid thee cease from ploughing the\r\nfallow land, for the frosts will injure the milky\r\nseeds.","comments":[],"alignments":[],"passages":["https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/passages/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg7000.tlg001.ag:9.384/?format=json"]}