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of the harp were called by one and the same 

 name. A Cicada, sitting upon a harp, was a 

 usual emblem of the science of music, which 

 was thus accounted for : — When two rival mu- 

 sicians, Eunomus and Ariston, were contending 

 upon that instrument, a Cicada, flying to the 

 former, and sitting upon his harp, supplied the 

 place of a broken string, and so secured to him 

 the victory." 



As far as is at present known respecting the 

 vocal powers of the Cicada? and the Locustae, it 

 appears that the whole of the foregoing quo- 

 tation will more strictly apply to the latter than 

 to the former ; but if it can be clearly shown, 

 on equal authority with these Gems, that the 

 Grecian Tettix is the Cicada, or Tettigonia, 

 of modern entomologists, it will follow that the 

 Greeks were in the habit of including both fami- 

 lies under the same appellation. See plate 96, 

 of Engravings of Gems from the Florentine 

 Gallery, or a copy in the Continued Appendix 

 to Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, page 77. 



