Since then I have repeatedly had occasion to witness similar carnage.
I have even seen the Grasshopper--the height of audacity, this--dart in pursuit of a Cicada in mad flight.

Even so does the Sparrow-hawk pursue the Swallow in the sky.

But the bird of prey here is inferior to the insect.

It attacks a weaker than itself.

The Grasshopper, on the other hand, assaults a colossus, much larger than herself and stronger; and nevertheless the result of the unequal fight is not in doubt.