"Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew;
In summer's heat on tops of lilies feed,
And creep within their bells, to suck the balmy seed:
The winged army roams the fields around;
The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound."
Aeneid vi Virgil
"Mother of Helios, Theia, goddess of many names, thanks to thee men ascribe to gold a strength exceeding all other powers that are. "
Isthmian Ode 5 Pindar
He spake, and the locusts came: and catterpillers, and that without number, And did eate vp all the herbes in their land: and deuoured the fruite of their ground.