grasshopper
animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a grasshopper · grasshoppers · the Pythian grasshopper · the grasshopper
spoken of as
2 expressionsGrasshoppers1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
With the water that the gods poured into you, O grasshoppers, in the desert — with that, O god-impelled ones, corrupt this poison.
the grasshopper1 mention
Sulla (Greek)
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Creatures addressed as agents that can corrupt/neutralize poison, per a mythic precedent of the gods watering them.
With the water that the gods poured into you, O grasshoppers, in the desert — with that, O god-impelled ones, corrupt this poison.
Protrepticus
Grasshopper that supplies the missing note when Eunomus's lyre-string breaks, illustrating that nature, not the singer, moves the creature.
I could tell you of yet another legend and singer akin to these, Eunomus the Locrian and the Pythian grasshopper.
Sulla
A grasshopper carried by the sparrow, interpreted by diviners as symbolizing the vociferous populace of the forum.