Abstract
This paper demonstrates that Vergil engages in a kind of verbal one-upmanship with Aratus by opening his Georgics with a multifaceted — and till now entirely overlooked — example of wordplay that is directly indebted to Aratus’ “signature” at the start of the Phaenomena. In all sorts of ways, terram/ uertere is a “translation” of ἐῶμeν / ἄρρητον.
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