219Following these signs and these examples, some have said that the bees have a share of the divine mind and draughts of the upper air; 221for God, they say, pervades all lands and the tracts of the sea and the depths of the sky. 223From him flocks, herds, men, every kind of wild beast, each at its birth draws for itself its slender life; 225to him, surely, all things are then returned and, when dissolved, brought back, nor is there room for death, but alive they fly up to be numbered among the stars and rise to the high heaven.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 4.219–227
The bees and the divine mind
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Vergil, Georgics. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.