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concert, he asked the gods that they should never sing there for 

 ever more, and his prayer was immediately granted. The truth 

 of the tale, however, one would be inclined to find in the fact 

 that the Locrians were Greeks and aliens, and formerly conceited 

 of their musical tradition. In the days of Strabo there stood at 

 Locris a statue to Eunomus, with a Cicada sitting on his cithara. 

 And the legend went that two musicians, Ariston the Locrian 

 and Eunomus of Regium, were contending in song. Ariston 

 claimed for the Sun God his seat at Delphi ; but this Eunomus 

 maintained did not suit the dwellers at Regium ; and as he 

 warmed to his argument the very Cicada on the bough ceased to 

 sing. Ariston, however, was by no means pleased at this, and 

 still hoped for victory. At this moment a chord in the lyre of 

 Eunomus snapped. The free-born Cicada was not to be beaten in 

 his argument, and, flying to the spot, supplied the native sound 

 of the string. 



" Phoebus, thou knowest me — Eunomus, who beat 

 Spartio ; the tale for others I repeat. 

 Deftly upon my lyre I played and sang, 

 Wlien 'mid the song a broken harp-string rang ; 

 And seeking for its sound, I could not hear 

 The notes responsive to my descant clear. 

 Then on my lyre, unasked, unsought, there flew 

 A grasshopper, who filled the cadence due ; 

 For while six chords beneath my fingers cried. 

 He with his tuneful voice the seventh supplied. 

 The mid-day songster of the mountain set 

 His pastoral ditty to my canzonet ; 

 And when he sang, his modulated throat 

 Accorded with the lifeless strings I smote. 

 Therefore, I thank my fellow-minstrel — he 

 Sits on my lyre in brass, as you may see." 



In Northern Italy the duration of the classic Cicada in the 

 perfect state is brief. Emerging at the commencement of July, 

 the rattling of the males is heard only for about three weeks, and 

 but a few days longer than the more abundant Blood Cicada. 

 About the same time emerges the Cicada of the ash, Cicada 

 orni. It is distinguished externally by a smaller size and spotted 

 wings, and Linnaeus describes it in his brief method as ^' Elytris 

 intra marginem punctis sex concatenatis ; anastomosibus 

 interioribus fuscis." In the south of France this kind is 

 excessively abundant in the forests of mai-itime pines at Bayonne 



