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