# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> Thus to their toils, in early summer, run
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> The clust'ring bees, and labour in the sun;
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> Led forth, in colonies, their buzzing race,
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> Or work the liquid sweets, and thicken to a mass.
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> The busy nation flies from flow'r to flow'r,
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> And hoards, in curious cells, the golden store;
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> A chosen troop before the gate attends,
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> To take the burdens, and relieve their friends;
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> Warm at the fragrant work, in bands, they drive
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> The drone, a lazy robber, from the hive.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Qualis apes aestate nova per florea rura / exercet sub sole labor, cum gentis adultos / educunt fetus, aut cum liquentia mella / stipant et dulci distendunt nectare cellas, / aut onera accipiunt venientum, aut agmine facto / ignavom fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent: / fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_I) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/thus-to-their

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