The Beasts Birds And Bees of Virgil a Naturalists Handbook to the Georgics
The Beasts Birds And Bees of Virgil a Naturalists Handbook to the Georgics
Thomas Fletcher Royds
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Wood translate ' She that speaks. ' The new Oxford Hebrew Lexicon gives no support to this view. Tickner Edwardes 3 asserts that the most super- ficial acquaintance with the life of a hive must convince anyone that bees hear acutely. It would be well if he had studied the question less super- ficially himself. The most that can be said in the present state of knowledge is that it is an open one. Probably bees have some sense of hearing, or some faculty that corresponds to it, but as to its natu...re and range we are very much in the dark. 4 Mr. T. W. Cowan, one of our greatest living authorities, skilfully avoids expressing any opinion in his scientific work on the bee. Lines 50-61 are a beautiful piece of description. We find echoes of it in Shakespeare, 5 whose bees 1 Appendix A, § 4. 2 My Bee-Book, p. 338. 3 Lore, ch. X. * Appendix B, § 13. 5 Henry V. I. 2. 65 F Bees 1 make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, ** 1 and in Gray's Ode on the Spring: * The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim.
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