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 1 XX   |       difference between man and ants or bees. Because he does
 2 XX   |      nothing to the purpose, for ants and bees have all this as
 3 XX   |    though Celsus may transfer to ants and bees the names derived
 4 XX   |        so we must not receive 402ants or bees, for they do not
 5 XX   |       that when they look at the ants, they may become more diligent
 6 XX   | introduce an elaborate eulogy of ants, in order that by thus eulogising
 7 XX   |      that by thus eulogising the ants he may upset the superiority
 8 XX   |      irrational foresight of the ants where Celsus thinks they
 9 XX   |           by telling us that the ants when they see a fellow-ant
10 XX   |        we are no better than the ants even when we help those
11 XX   |         doing so to no purpose?" Ants, indeed, since they are
12 XX   |     Supposing, however, that the ants do tear off the shoots of
13 XX   |       the result of reasoning in ants, but must rather believe
14 XX   |         way differs from that of ants and bees; that would be
15 XX   |      Celsus says also that "when ants die the survivors choose
16 XX   |          of his book, think that ants, at all events, are without
17 XX   |         reason. For he speaks of ants talking to one another,
18 XX   |       find that sort of thing in ants? ~12. And he is not ashamed
19 XX   |    doings of us men and those of ants and bees?" Now picture a
20 XX   |     seeing the doings of men and ants: does he look upon the bodies
21 XX   |       upon the bodies of men and ants, and not perceive that in
22 XX   |        that, on the contrary, in ants the ruling principle is
23 XX   |       upon the bodies of men and ants from such a distance, and
24 XX   |   superiority of man not only to ants but also to elephants. For
25 XX   |        are exceedingly wise: the ants are a people not strong,
26 XX   |  proverbs." 407Now it is not the ants we see that are wiser than
27 XX   |     wiser than the wise, but the ants proverbially indicated.
28 Index|      service, 83.~Antinous, 109.~Ants and bees, 119 f.; patterns
29 Index|           131. (See alto Augury, Ants and bees, Elephants, etc.)~