cicalas

The liveliness of epigrammatic remarks is due to the meaning not being just what the words say: as in the saying of Stesichorus that ‘the cicalas will chirp to themselves on the ground’.

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Stesichorus said to the Locrians, ‘Insolence is better avoided, lest the cicalas chirp on the ground’.

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Whole families of cicalas chirp day and night under our old resounding roof.

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Forever, throughout everything, rises day and night from the whole country the song of the cicalas, ceaseless, strident, and insistent.

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I felt myself vibrating painfully to the rhythmical sound of the cicalas which filled the atmosphere.

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In the vast flood of midday sunshine, to the quivering noise of the cicalas, I mount to

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As for the frogs, the clamorous noise they kept up sounded absolutely deafening, and so did the shrill, incessant cry of the cicalas.

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Others sing in sharp, high voices, hopping about continually, like cicalas in delirium.

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There are twelve towns well peopled, the homes of an ancient race, the children of Kecrops the serpent-king, the son of Mother Earth, who wear gold cicalas among the tresses of their golden hair; for like the cicalas they sprang from the earth, and like the cicalas they sing all day, rejoicing in the genial sun.

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And the whirr of the cicalas -- which, in Japan, is one of the continuous noises of life, and which in a few days we shall no longer even be aware of, so completely is it the background and foundation of all other terrestrial sounds -- was sonorous, incessant, softly monotonous, like the murmur of a waterfall.

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