Frogs

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informal grouping of amphibians

Wikidata ID: Q3116510

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Ovid, Metamorphoses§6.361  their largest part. — Forever since that time, the foolish frogs muddy their own pools, where they leap and dive.' -1000
Ovid, Metamorphoses§6.382  So he related how the clowns were changed to leaping frogs; and after he was through, another told the tale -1000
Ovid, Metamorphoses§15.375  to funeral butterflies. Mud holds the seeds that generate green frogs, at first producing tadpoles with no feet, and soon -1000
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses§35  their cattle besides the spring. Leto changed them all into frogs whose backs and shoulders she scratched with a rough stone. -1000
Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades§8.92  CONCERNING THE SPEECHLESSNESS OF THE SERIPHIAN FROGS While every terrestrial frog is mute, The aquatic ones, which Aratus calls tadpoles And [2 hits] -1000
Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades§8.435  YOUR LITTLE FROGS WITH THE SWOLLEN JAW Aristophanes wrote about frogs in his play, In which he mocks the outcasts, the [3 hits] -1000
Anonymous Life of Aesop§87  a monstrosity he is to look at! Is he a frog, or a hedgehog, or a potbellied jar, or a -560
Anonymous Life of Aesop§133  spoke the same language, a mouse made friends with a frog and invited him to dinner. He took him into a [7 hits] -560
Herodotus, Histories§4.131  gifts to Dareios a bird and a mouse and a frog and five arrows. The Persians accordingly asked the bearer of -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.132  the same produce of the earth as man, and a frog in the water, while a bird has great resemblance to [2 hits] -500
Aristophanes, Knights§507  into a gnat, daubed himself with green to become a frog. All in vain! When young, you applauded him; in -424
Aristophanes, Knights§1397  the Prytaneum which this rogue once occupied. Put on this frog -green mantle and follow me. As for the other, let -424
Aristophanes, Clouds§865  little chariots of leather, and understood wonderfully how to make frogs out of pomegranate rinds. Teach him both methods of reasoning, -423
Aristophanes, Frogs§259  longer hear your koax. (He begins to cry against the frogs, who finally stop.) Ah! I knew I would soon -405
Aristotelian Corpus, On Marvelous Things Heard§27.68  In Cyrene they say that frogs are entirely voiceless; and in Macedonia, in the country of -400
Aristotelian Corpus, On Marvelous Things Heard§27.70  They say that in Seriphus frogs do not croak, but if they are removed to another -400
Aristotelian Corpus, On Marvelous Things Heard§27.72  even torment them. They have a head like a sea- frog, but the rest of their body is like a -400
Plato, Phaedo§109  small part of it about the sea, like ants or frogs about a pond, and that many other people live in -399
Aristotle, History of Animals§1.1.10  rivers, some in lakes, and some in marshes, as the frog and the newt. -360
Aristotle, History of Animals§1.5.5  by the undulatory motion of their flat bodies; the fishing frog, however, has fins, and so likewise have all such -360
Aristotle, History of Animals§2.13.5  The fishing- frog has gills placed sideways, and covered not with a spiny -360
Aristotle, History of Animals§2.13.9  are all viviparous, with the single exception of the fishing- frog. -360
Aristotle, History of Animals§2.15.4  freshwater tortoise, the toad, the lizard, the crocodile, and the frog. -360
Aristotle, History of Animals§2.15.8  some cases far off, in others near; as the fishing- frog, the elops, the synagris, the muraena, and the sword-fish. -360
Aristotle, History of Animals§3.1.17  similar in oviparous quadrupeds, as the tortoise, the lizard, the frog and the like; for the tube below is single and -360
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