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Proverbia de Cicadis et Vespis

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These proverbs about the Crickets and Wasps (Cicadae et Vespae) constitute just one group of the large body of proverbs about different kinds of insects in Latin.

For more information about crickets and wasps in the Latin bestiaries, visit the Cicada or the Vespa in the Zoo. If you find some of the proverbs below difficult to understand, you will find some English translations at the Zoo page, along with many other proverbs!

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Cicada vocalior. .
Totum diem
argutatur
quasi cicada. 		 
Cicadae
sibi canent. 		 
Cicadam
ala corripuisti. 		 
Durate
atque exspectate cicadas. 		 
Rore vivit,
ut cicada. 		 
Cicada cicadae cara,
formicae formica. 		 
Cicadae
apem comparas. 		 
Vespa
cicadae obstrepens. 		 
Faciunt favos
et vespae. 		et vespae : adverbial use of et
Vespa acerbior.  
Ne forte
vespam consopitam
concites.
 concites: subjunctive as imperative, with ne
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