Moretum

“The Country Breakfast.” A poem in 124 hexameters, usually ascribed to Vergil and perhaps translated by him from a Greek original. It describes a peasant, Simylus, rising in the morning, baking bread, and preparing a mess of herbs in a mortar before going to work. See Barth, Sprache und Versbau des Moretum (Horn, 1879); Egli, Pseudo-Verg. Gedichte (Leipzig, 1886); and the article Vergilius.