18
But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shewn by irrational animals?
19
The very bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even unto death.
20
But sympathy with her children did not turn aside the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.