"In regard to the difference in origin, some animals originate without mixture of the sexes, while others originate th…"

"The blood of slaughtered bullocks oft has borne Bees from corruption. I will trace me back To its prime source the st…"

"He said: ‘Do you ask how to recover your bees? Kill a heifer and bury its carcase in the earth, Buried it will produc…"

"However if trust is only placed in proven things, do you not see that whenever corpses putrefy, due to time or meltin…"

"These persons say also, that if the swarm is entirely lost, it may be replaced by the aid of the belly1 of an ox newl…"

"1 Though Virgil tells the same story, in B. iv. of the Georgics, in relation to the shepherd Aristæus, all this is en…"

"2 Georg. B. iv. 1. 284, et seq."

"In winter, too, the hives should be covered with straw, and subjected to repeated fumigations, with burnt cow- dung m…"

""Cognatum hoc." He probably alludes to the notion entertained by the ancients that bees might be reproduced from the …"

"8. The priestesses of Ceres, also, as being initiated into the mysteries of the terrene Goddess, were called by the a…"