and of the Vrone. 
roome better then their company. At firft nor quite forget- 
ring their old familiaritie, they gently guic chem Tom 
Drums entertainment : they that will not take that for a war- 
ning, but prefume to force in againe among them, are more 
fhrewdly handled. You may fometime fee ahandfull or two 
before a Hiue, which they had killed within : but the greateft 
part flyeth away, and dieth abroad. 
* Amazones beliicofse erant Scythia mulieres, qua: cum viris exulan- 
tas in Cappadocia: ora juxea amnem Thermodonta confederunt : ubi,vi- The Bees swp£ 
ris plerifq; per inGdias accolarum trucidacis, rehquos qai domi renrunfe- red to the 
rant, ut ipfe foist rerum potirtntur, interficiunt: & atmis fumptisetiam ions. 
comcontemptu hoftiumfc ftrenue tuentur, & imperium longe lateq; in — “ 
Europam & A Gar partem tandem proferunt. Ne vero genus periret,Sni- 
timis tanquam mantis utuntur : quo* officio fun&os abigunt : Atqj q«o£ 
pariunt virgines foyent, & armis exercentjtmfculos vero dura: enecant: 
rnde eas^orpatai. Viricidas appellant Scythat, ut tradit Herodot. 1. 4. 
Primabarum regina Marthefia vel Marpelia dicebatur: quae e lures qui- 
dem peperit Glia*, Antiopen, Ornhyam, Menalippen, &Kypo!itcn :e 
quibus duz majoresnatu matri fucccfierunt, caererae imperium non funs 
adept*. Amazonum iraq, regnum apura rempubltcam aptiffime refer?; 
MarpcGa spurn reginam quae plures folet producere foetus : Antiope 8c 
Orithya primores filias, quae primum & fecundtam examen educunt, ijfc 
quemoderantur: Menalippe 8c Hypalite eas principes quae aut nequa- 
quam aut nequicquam dominautur. Nam poft fecundum examen aut in al- 
vei* morantes morte muldantur,v. aut egreflae fere fame pereunt,».f.8.».4. 
Vtriufq; etiam populi mores non minus c an veniunt: nam & apes foemmae 
funt bellicofae, quae non modo Europam & quandam AGae partem, ut illaej 
fed univerfaorbjs terrarumim.eria poffidentiqu* fui fexus prolem fhmma 
itidem cura enutnentes,mares omnes tam viros quam Glros caedere folent; 
at Scipfae vere aEorpatadicipoflint. 
sff. 
But becaufe in the fame Hiue they doe not leaue breeding They rid nil 
all at once ; therefore neither doe they kill their Drones all their Drones a® 
at once abut at the firft taking away onely the fuperfluous, *l onee .: 
they fuffer as many as they need, to remair.e longer: fome 
fometime a whole moneth after. . 27 
The forward ftockes, that haue call: their laft fwarme in trims forward 
Gemini or foone after, begin at Leo -yea of thofein thebe- P^s l-gin. 
ginning of Gemini fome foinewhar fooner, the backward, 2*. 
that call not their laft fwarme much before Leo, may ftay till w ^ e ” t!ie ' bA:<A “ 
the end of the fame moneth ; but vfually about Virgo, ora ~ 
wceke after, they make a cleane riddance of them. 
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