animalCicadaBeings · NatureCicada as an animal people have named and used. Summer voice, shed skin, timed return — one living kind, not a single symbol.Roman religionCicada appears in Roman religion.Pliny’s Natural History records the cicada among insects of Roman natural-history speech. A named cicada in that encyclopedia, not locust as the swarm pest alone and not a modern summer-noise dump.from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesNatural History · Pliny the ElderPliny, Naturalis Historia.