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| | English translation:fill the crevices With pollen from the flowers | Explanation:
The original meaning of *ora* is any kind of *extremity*, see a very good definition in the first link.
About Virgil's Georgicon, there is an extremely good translation on the MIT website, this is where the target phrase is from. As you see, they simply avoided explaining the details of the process how the bees gain pollen from the "extremities" of the flowers... |
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