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True it is that pingit in the first line does not seem to construe satisfactorily, and I am not certain that the poet may not have written fingit. Fingit would not be pure Latin, but that is beside the question." "Indeed it is. I must say I prefer the Georgics. I have known many strange tastes, but your fancy for bad Latin is the strangest of all."
If you look into our gardens annexed to our houses, how wonderfully is their beauty increased, not only with flowers, which Columella calleth Terrena sydera saying, "Pingit et in varios terrestria sydera flores,"
"'Hoc nemus umbriferum pingit viridissima Rutae Silvula coeruleae, foliis quae praedita parvis, Umbellas jaculata brevis, spiramina venti Et radios Phoebi caules transmittit ad imos, Attactuque graves leni dispergit odores, Haec cum multiplici vigeat virtute medelae, Dicitur occultis apprime obstare venenis, Toxicaque invasis incommoda pellere fibris. "Now, can anything be more charming?
Or was it that they were books not laid up in the Church chest, but hidden away in obscure corners? They are Latin hexameters into which an internal rhyme has forced its way. The following, for example, are all 'leonine': Qui pingit florem non pingit floris odorem: Si quis det mannos, ne quaere in dentibus annos. Una avis in dextra melior quam quattuor extra.
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