Henceforth, less and less of the provision of Cicadaeis consumed; on the evening of the following day, it is refused altogether.
About thirty-six hours after being bitten, the Mole dies during the night and certainly not from inanition, for there are still half a dozen live Cicadae in the receptacle, as well as a few Beetles.
Some large dark Cicadae are common among the branches, and the air often resounds with their harsh grating cries, especially towards evening.
The Cicadae were singing their evening hymn from the branches overhead, and in due time the fireflies came out in all their glory.
Cicadae hitherto ascertained to be British, namely, the Cicada haematodes (Linn.
Of course the semi are very different from the cicadae known to the Greeks.
If this myth be not a satirical invention of Plato's against poets, the bees as Muses, and those who became cicadae on account of the Muses, should enter into the same mythical family.
According to Phile,[359] the cicadae feed upon the eastern dew, perhaps in reminiscence of the Hellenic myth which makes the sun Tithon the lover of the aurora.
But according to Plato, the Muses transformed into cicadae the men who amused themselves by singing, and were so absorbed in that occupation they forgot to eat and to drink.
As no one sees how the cuckoo disappears (the belief that it is killed by the cicadae not being generally received), it is supposed that it never dies, that it is always the same cuckoo that sings year after year in the same wood.
To eat Cicadae and sugar is not possible in every part of the country.
The butcher of the Cicadae is able to modify an excessively heating diet with vegetable fare.
Captain Hancock informs me that the Brazilian Cicadae sing so loud as to be heard at the distance of a mile.
Whether the Grecian Cicadae maintain at present their ancient character for music, travellers do not tell us.
Having chorused their joy all the day long in the sunshine, in the evening the Cicadae fall asleep among the olives and the lofty plane-trees.
The crickets and cicadae were no longer heard, and at that hour a great melancholy spread through the air.
I fancy this creature can have no rival in the whole world of cicadae its music is exactly like the song of a bird.
Wherever it appeared, moreover, the red-eyed cicadae were in abundance.
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