Chapter VI “The Bees” of Virgil
The Virgilian fable of Aristæus misunderstood, 293
Intended by the poet as a parable of immortality, 294
The writer was accidentally led to an understanding of its true significance, 295
A visit to the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, 295
Here certain lonely graves were haunted by a flight of bees, 296
Yet they were not true bees; they were two-winged, 297
They were “the Bees” of which Virgil had sung, 298