Note 1215 — Chapter I · THE VILLA AND THE FARMYARD.

Phile gives a long list of the bees’ foes, which begins as follows:

Ὄφις, δὲ καὶ σφὴξ, καὶ χελιδὼν, καὶ φρύνος,

Μύρμηξ τε, καὶ σὴς, αἰγιθαλὴς, καὶ φάλαγξ,

Καὶ σαῦρος ὦχρὸς, καὶ φαγεῖν δεινὸς μέροψ,

Σμήνει μελισσῶν δυσμενεῖς ὁδοστάται.

Iamb. De Animal. Proprietat. c. 30, p. 104, seq.