gryllus

gryllus
1.
gryllus (also grillus ), i, m., = grullos.
I.
A cricket or grasshopper, Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 138.—
II.
Transf., in painting, a kind of comic figures, Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 114.
2.
Gryllus, i, m., =Grullos, a Greek proper name.
I.
A son of Xenophon, who fell in the battle at Mantinea, and was celebrated by Aristotle in a monogram entitled Grullos, Quint. 2, 17, 14.—
II.
A Roman proper name, Mart. 1, 60, 3; 2, 14, 13.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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