Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler - i:e., no leader of any kind; whereas bees and cranes have. It is the more marvelous that the ants should have such order in the absence of one head. It is therefore the more inexcusable that men, who have so many to urge them to work-parents, preceptors, the example of the good effects of energy, and the evil effects of indolence-should ever be lazy. Idleness is against nature. Guides, overseers, and rulers should allow none under them to be indolent.