drones
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Orations
Idle bees that consume honey without producing it, tolerated within the hive.
Are there not even there certain ones, called drones, troublesome and devouring the honey?
Economics
Useless bees used in a simile for weeds that rob crops of nourishment.
The weeds must be cut, of course, just as the drones must be removed from the hive.
For you roused my wrath against the weeds by mentioning the drones, much more than when you spoke of mere weeds.
What if weeds are springing up, choking the corn and robbing it of its food, much as useless drones rob bees of the food they have laid in store by their industry?