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Cicada

Legenda:

• Proverbia de Cicadis et Vespis
• De cicada et formica (Barlow, Latin Via Fables)
• Cicada et Noctua: The Cricket and The Owl (Phaedrus, Latin Via Fables)

Proverbia:

• Cicada vocalior. Louder than a cricket.
• Totum diem argutatur quasi cicada. He drones all day long like a cricket.
• Cicadae sibi canent. The crickets will sing for themselves.
• Cicadam ala corripuisti. You've grabbed a cricket by the wing.
• Durate atque exspectate cicadas. Be patient, and await the crickets.
• Rore vivit, ut cicada. He lives off the dew, like a cricket.
• Cicada cicadae cara, formicae formica. Cricket is dear to cricket, ant to ant.
• Cicadae apem comparas. You're comparing a bee to a cricket.
• Vespa cicadae obstrepens. The wasp trying to out-buzz the cricket.

Fontes:

• Isidore: Etymologiae

[12.3.8] Gryllus nomen a sono vocis habet. Hic retro ambulat, terram terebrat, stridet noctibus. Vena(n)tur eum formica circumligata capillo in cavernam eius coniecta, afflato prius pulvere ne se abscondat; ita formicae conplexibus trahitur.

[12.7.67] Tucos, quos Hispani ciculos vocant, a voce propria nominatos. Hi veniendi habent tempus, milvorum scapulis suscepti propter breves et parvos volatus, ne per longa aeris spatia fatigati deficiant. [68] Horum salivae cicadas gignunt.

[12.8.10] Cicades ex ciculorum nascuntur sputo. Haec in Italia apud Rheginos mutae sunt, nec usquam alibi.

Imagines:

	The Ant and the Cricket (Steinhowel's Aesop) [click on the thumbnail to see a full-sized view]
	Cicada  (National Library of the Netherlands) [click on the thumbnail to browse the manuscript]