gryllus (also grillus), i, m., = γρύλλος.
I A cricket or grasshopper , Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 138.—
II Transf., in painting, a kind of comic figures , Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 114.
·noun A genus of insects including the common crickets. ...
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