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|txtha=(ίδος, ἡ (from Homer down), a [[locust]], [[particularly]] [[that]] [[species]] [[which]] [[especially]] infests [[oriental]] countries, stripping fields and trees. Numberless swarms of [[them]] [[almost]] [[every]] [[spring]] are carried by the [[wind]] from [[Arabia]] [[into]] [[Palestine]], and having devastated [[that]] [[country]] [[migrate]] to regions [[farther]] [[north]], [[until]] [[they]] [[perish]] by falling [[into]] the [[sea]]. The Orientals are [[accustomed]] to [[feed]] [[upon]] locusts, [[either]] [[raw]] or roasted and [[seasoned]] [[with]] [[salt]] (or [[prepared]] in [[other]] ways), and the Israelites [[also]] (according to Winer s RWB [[under]] the [[word]] Heuschrecken; Furrer in Schenkel iii., p. 78f; (BB. DD., Smith's Bible Dictionary, Locust [[under]] the [[word]]; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 313ff)): Revelation 9:2,5f, 8-12; [[see]] Dusterdieck at the [[passage]].