cicale

plural cicales

1. alternativeAlternative form of cicala (“a cicada”).

   The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

   a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169

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   These were too old to fight, but they were fluent orators, and sat on the tower like cicales that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood.

   1921, Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, The Iliad of Homer: Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the Original, III, line 150