The bee, or the chapters of instructive from Scripture, holy fathers and wise husbands. V Voydoklatova P.K.

A collection of wise sayings "Bee" was very popular in Byzantium and in ancient Rus'. It contains quotes from the Holy Scriptures, churches and church writers (up to the 7th century inclusive), ancient pre -Christian authors (famous historical figures of antiquity, poets, philosophers, historians) or instructive fragments from an unknown author. their biographies.

sayings are collected in thematic chapters (71 chapter) on a variety of worldviews and even everyday topics, and the work, thus, is a brief moral - edifying “encyclopedia” that does not lose its relevance to this day.