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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
In Book iv of the Georgics, Virgil prescribes the beginning of spring as the time for producing bees abiogenetically: hoc geritur Zephyris primum impellentibus undas,
ante nouis rubeant quam prata coloribus, ante
garrula quam tignis nidum suspendat hirundo. (305–7)