First find a site and base for your bees…Principio sedes apibus statioque petenda…
Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC) is generally regarded as the greatest Latin poet of the classical period.
One of his three famous poems is “The Georgics” (published 29 BC) which take the form of an agricultural treatise in verse, in four books. However, it is really a hymn to nature and farming, celebrating the beauty of the Italian countryside, and praising the traditional Roman values of rural piety, simplicity, hard work, and hardiness.
The first three books of the Georgics deal each in turn with:-
(1) Land and Crops
(2) Trees and Vines
(3) Farm Livestock.
(4) This last, Book (4), is devoted to bees.
So Virgil’s choice of final topic shows that he regarded beekeeping as a vital part of agriculture. It also indicates that he had studied the subject before he wrote about it.