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Definition of Tettixes
1. tettix [n] - See also: tettix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tettixes
Literary usage of Tettixes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients by Morgan George Watkins (1896)
"... the old men of Troy are no longer able to fight, but are "excellent talkers,
like tettixes" ..."
2. Gleanings from the Natural History of the Ancients by Morgan George Watkins (1896)
"... the old men of Troy are no longer able to fight, but are "excellent talkers,
like tettixes" ..."
3. Travels in Asia Minor and Greece by Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett (1825)
"... with whom he had a quarrel, when he said, that, if they refused to comply with
his demands, their tettixes should sing on the ground. ..."
4. Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece: Or, An Account of a Tour Made at the by Richard Chandler (1817)
"... that, if they refused to comply with his demands, their tettixes should sing
on the ground. We had excessive heat in the latter end of May, the wind . ..."
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