οἷος δ᾽ ἐν βήσσῃς ὄρεος χαλεπὸς προϊδέσθαι
κάπρος χαυλιόδων φρονέει θυμῷ μαχέσασθαι
ἀνδράσι θηρευτῇς, θήγει δέ τε λευκὸν ὀδόντα
δοχμωθείς, ἀφρὸς δὲ περὶ στόμα μαστιχόωντι
λείβεται, ὄσσε δέ οἱ πυρὶ λαμπετόωντι ἔικτον,
ὀρθὰς δ᾽ ἐν λοφιῇ φρίσσει τρίχας ἀμφί τε δειρήν:
τῷ ἴκελος Διὸς υἱὸς ἀφ᾽ ἱππείου θόρε δίφρου.
ἦμος δὲ χλοερῷ κυανόπτερος ἠχέτα τέττιξ
ὄζῳ ἐφεζόμενος θέρος ἀνθρώποισιν ἀείδειν
ἄρχεται, ᾧ τε πόσις καὶ βρῶσις θῆλυς ἐέρση,
καί τε πανημέριός τε καὶ ἠώιος χέει αὐδὴν
ἴδει ἐν αἰνοτάτῳ, ὅτε τε χρόα Σείριος ἄζει,
τῆμος δὴ κέγχροισι πέρι γλῶχες τελέθουσι
τούς τε θέρει σπείρουσιν, ὅτ᾽ ὄμφακες αἰόλλονται,
οἷα Διώνυσος δῶκ᾽ ἀνδράσι χάρμα καὶ ἄχθος:
τὴν ὥρην μάρναντο, πολὺς δ᾽ ὀρυμαγδὸς ὀρώρει.
386-401 The clash likened to nature:
As a tusked boar, that is fearful for a man to see before him in the glens of a mountain, resolves to fight with the huntsmen and white tusks, turning sideways, while foam flows all round his mouth as he gnashes, and his eyes are like glowing fire, and he bristles the hair on his mane and around his neck--like him the son of Zeus leaped from his horse-chariot. And when the dark-winged whirring grasshopper, perched on a green shoot, begins to sing of summer to men--his food and drink is the dainty dew--and all day long from dawn pours forth his voice in the deadliest heat, when Sirius scorches the flesh (then the beard grows upon the millet which men sow in summer), when the crude grapes which Dionysus gave to men--a joy and a sorrow both--begin to colour, in that season they fought and loud rose the clamour.
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Introduction
