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to protrude; these, in due time being sawn off, out fly 

 (says he) the bees. Ovid in the first book of the 

 '' Fasti " largely follows Antigonus : 



" Qua, dixit, re pares arte, requiris, apes? 

 Obrue mactati corpus tellure invend; 

 Quod petis a nobis, obrutus ille dabit. 

 lussa facit pastor, fervent exaniina putri 

 De bove: mille animas una necata dcdit." 



Varro, in the second book [" De Re Rustica "] does not 

 state whether the bullock must be buried, or whether it 

 might be left to rot above ground. Neither does Colu- 

 mella mention this detail, and Galen is silent concerning 

 it in the fifth chapter of that book in which he inquires : 

 "Is that which is contained in the uterus, an animal?" 

 Virgil in his " Georgics," fourth book, seems to have been 

 of the opinion that it is not necessary to bury the animal, 

 but that it might be left in the open air in the woods. 



" Quattuor eximos praestanti corpore tauros. 



Qui tibi nunc viridis depascunt summa Lycaei, 

 Delige, et intacta totidem cervice invencas. 

 Quattuor his aras alta ad delubra Dearum 

 Constitue, et sacrum iugulis demitte cruorem, 

 Corporaque ipsa bourn frondoso desere liico. 



And further: 



" Post, ubi nana suos Aurora induxerat ortus, 

 Inferias Orphei mittit, lucumque revmt. 

 Heic vero subitum, ac dictu mirabUe, monstrum 

 Adspiciunt: liquefacta bourn per viscera toto 

 Stridere apes utero, et ruptis effervere costis, 

 Immensasque trahi nubes: iamque arb ore summa 

 Coniluere, et lentis uvam demittere ramis!' 



