Nature
Book IX, 564
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. III, 1917)
Nature
Bee, that revealest the presence of many-coloured spring in her delightful bloom ; yellow bee, revelling in the prime of the flowers; fly to the sweetly-scented field and busy thyself with thy work, that thy waxen chambers may be filled.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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