didicere priores perpessi plerumque famem, si tabidus ar siccavit tenues ardenti sidere nubes nec vernas infudit aquas creberrimus imber fruge nova et viridi, si messis, adulta priusquam conceptas tenero solidaret lacte medullas, adflatum calido sucum contraxit ab euro ieiunosque tulit calamos atque inrita vota agricolae sterilis stipularum silva fefellit.
Former generations have learned it by suffering hunger often, if a blighting atmosphere dried up the thin clouds under a burning sun and there was no frequent rain to shed its showers in spring, when the crop was young and green; if the corn grew up before it could firm with its tender milk the grains it had conceived, and its sap was checked by the breath of a hot east wind, so that it produced unfertile stalks and a barren forest of straws cheated the farmers hopes and brought them to nothing.
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