Crossword-Solution: LOCUSTAS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Sometimes, however, your self-respecting Gaul is strained beyond the point of patriotic endurance by the concoctions of these Locustas and Borgias; then he unsheathes that dagger-like Neanderthal manner which he carries about with him for rare occasions of self-defence; and it warms the cockles of one's heart to hear how pertinently he discourses damnation to the cringing host.

Hereof I perceive _Muffetus_ hath taken notice, dissenting from _Langius_ and _Lycostenes_, while they deliver, the _Cicada's_ destroyed the fruits in _Germany_, where that insect is not found; and therefore concludeth, _Tam ipsos quam alios deceptos fuisse autumo, dum locustas cicadas esse vulgari errore crederent._ And hereby there may be some mistake in the due dispensation of Medicines desumed from this animal; particularly of Diatettigon commended by _Ætius_ in the affections of the kidnies.