[1213]. Plin. xxi. 47.
[1214]. At present the hives, we are told, are set on the ground in rows enclosed within a low wall. Chandler, ii. 143.
[1215]. Phile gives a long list of the bees’ foes, which begins as follows:
Ὄφις, δὲ καὶ σφὴξ, καὶ χελιδὼν, καὶ φρύνος,
Μύρμηξ τε, καὶ σὴς, αἰγιθαλὴς, καὶ φάλαγξ,
Καὶ σαῦρος ὦχρὸς, καὶ φαγεῖν δεινὸς μέροψ,
Σμήνει μελισσῶν δυσμενεῖς ὁδοστάται.
Iamb. De Animal. Proprietat. c. 30, p. 104, seq.
[1216]. Arist. Hist. Anim. viii. 5. Plin. Nat. Hist. viii. 54.
[1217]. Besides this enemy the bees of America have another still more audacious, that is to say, the monkey, which either carries off their combs or crushes them for the purpose of dipping his tail in the honey, which he afterwards sucks at his leisure. Schneider, Observ. sur Ulloa, t. ii. p. 199.—See a very amusing chapter on the enemies of the bee in Della Rocca, iii. 219, sqq.