(1) Critics borrowed the apian metaphor from Seneca's eighty-fourth letter to Lucilius, u2018On Gathering Ideas.u2019(2) My bees were living in the very best apian luxury and they refused to come out of the hive to pollinate the flowers in my garden and make honey.(3) Jones also fills the text with knowledgeable references to bee-keeping and the apian colony as utopian ideal.
