Cicadas birth live young.
  A cicada as offering, alights on his cithara, sustaining the note of the broken string
== Phaedrus, Plato and Socrates ==In Phaedrus, a dialogue authored by Plato, the sage Socrates and his student of rhetoric Phaedrus engage in repartee in an idyllic setting on a riverbank in the shade of a tree occupied by a chorus of cicadas

