What a very small quantity of vegetables you have sent me! They must surely be golden vegetables! And yet your whole wealth consists of orchards and rivers and groves and gardens, and your country produces vegetables as other lands produce gold, and
What a very small quantity of vegetables you have sent me! They must surely be golden vegetables! And yet your whole wealth consists of orchards and rivers and groves and gardens, and your country is productive of vegetables as other lands are of gold, and
You live among grassy, leafy fields.
You dwell among meadowy leafage.
But grain is a wonderful blessing for you, and your bread is like the bread of angels, as they say, because it's so precious to you and you can count on it so little. So either send me your vegetables more generously, or—I won't threaten you with anything else—I just won't send you any grain, and we'll find out whether there's any truth to the saying that grasshoppers live on dew!
But grain is for you a fabulous happiness, and your bread is the bread of angels, as the saying is, so welcome is it, and so little can you reckon upon it. Either, then, send me your vegetables less grudgingly, or — I won't threaten you with anything else, but I won't send you any grain, and will see whether there is any truth in the saying that grasshoppers live on dew!