...bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth ahout the hive In clusters : they among fresh dews and flowers Fly...plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the airy crowd Swarmed and were...

...the thronging of the myriad spirits to the place of consult — the sudden change upon their forms : They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's...than smallest dwarfs in narrow room Throng numberless ; the leaders of the fallen host, however, suffering no such mutation : But far within, And in their...

...bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters : they among fresh dews and flowers Fly...confer Their state affairs. So thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till the signal given, Behold a wonder! They but now who seem'd In bigness...

...In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive 770 excuse: Sweet lady-flower, I never brought Hither...But, taking those rare lips of yours For some fresh rubbed with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state-affairs: so thick the aerie crowd Swarmed and were...

...In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, 1 769 Pour forth their populous youth about the hive of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six...importuning every passenger 2 for an alms. These mothers, rubbed with balm, expatiate 2 and confer Their state-affairs. So thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were...

...In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive 770 In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly...plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate3 and confer4 Their state-affairs. So thick the aery crowd 775 Swarmed and...

...In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides,1 769 Pour forth their populous youth about the hive ey's heart, or Lambe's4 Boeotian head.6 Behold ! in...throngs the scribbling crew, For notice eager, pass in rubbed with balm, expatiate 2 and confer Their state-affairs. So thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were...

...In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive 770 In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly...plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state-affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarmed and were...

...and water. Balm is the ' melisphyllum ' of this passage. Milton's bees (Paradise Lost, i. 772) — ' On the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built...with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs.' Virgil's battle of the bees seems to be a poetical fusion of two distinct facts. The one is that bees...

...bees In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly...plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with halm, expatiate, and confer Their state-affaire. (PL 1. 768-775) « Vergil's account of...