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Of Bees. 
That in the fecond Carthaginian War, when 
Hannibal fought againft the Rowans by 
Tranfmenu* Lake, the Swarms of Bees that 
cluftredupon the Roman Enjigns, proved 
unlucky ligns of the great overthrow 
Flaminius the Roman General afterwards 
fuftained. Afterwards the fame Author 
tells you. Lib. 4. Cap. 6 . That before the 
great battle, between C<efar and Pompey, 
when there were above 300000 men in 
theFidd, in both Armies, befides the Aids 
of Kings, and Senators, Swarms of Bees 
(notufual amongft Armies) prefagedthat 
total mine of Pompey , and vi&ory to C<e- 
far. 
In the la ft cited Chapter of Plinies 
Natural Hiftory, he tells you, that there 
was a Swarm of Bees refted upon the very 
lips and mouth of Plato vvhilft an infant, 
prefaging his future Eloquence j The like 
happened to Pindar , Lucan and St Am- 
brofe, as is by Hiftorians recorded : Of 
later years we have an account of the 
Swarm of Bees, that welcomed Utdovicm 
lives to C.C Co IIedge in Oxford , Annp 
ligmfying the incomparable fweetnefs of his 
Eloquence, whereof at large you may read 
in Butler his he mi nine Monarchy , c.i. n. 50. 
But the uncertainty of their poi tents leaves 
us 
