Robert Graves , The Greek Myths, , [1955], 82.i, Aristaeus obeyed and, on the ninth morning, a swarm of bees rose from the rotting carcasses and settled on a tree. He captured the swarm, which he put into a hive; and the Arcadians now honour him as Zeus for having taught them this method of raising new swarms of bees. {Virgil, Georgics iv. 317-558; Pindar, quoted by Servius on Virgil's Georgics i.14.}