A kind of cricket/grasshopper/locust.[1]
But some [say that these are] wild bees. And it declines
pa/rnopos [in the genitive]. But some [says that these are] mosquitos.
Aristophanes [writes]: "but he, bawling aloud, compared him in turn to a locust which had cast off the leaves of its cloak".[2] And elsewhere: "what a deal of locusts is approaching". He means the mass of the army.[3]
Parnops: akridos eidos. hoi de melissas agrias. kai klinetai parnopos. hoi de kônôpas. Aristophanês: ho d' anakragôn anteikasen auton parnopi ta thria tou tribônos apobeblêkoti. kai authis: hoson to chrêma parnopôn proserchetai. to plêthos sêmainei tês stratias.
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