Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Blatta

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A name given by Roman writers to an insect belonging to the orthoptera, of which the ancients knew several kinds. From their shunning the light, Vergil calls them lucifugae. The American cockroach (blatta Americana) is our species. See Purpura.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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