Editing Grasshopper (section)

===Symbolism===
[[File:Londres - Lombard Street.JPG|thumb|left|Sir [[Thomas Gresham]]'s gilded grasshopper symbol, [[Lombard Street, London]], 1563]]

Grasshoppers are sometimes used as symbols.<ref name="Hazard"/> During the [[Archaic Greece|Greek Archaic Era]], the grasshopper was the symbol of the ''[[polis]]'' of [[Classical Athens|Athens]],<ref name="Roche2005">{{cite book |last1=Roche |first1=Paul |title=Aristophanes: The Complete Plays: A New Translation by Paul Roche |date=2005 |publisher=New American Library |isbn=978-0-451-21409-6 |page=176}}</ref> possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of [[Attica]].<ref name="Roche2005"/> Native Athenians for a while wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolise that they were of pure Athenian lineage with no foreign ancestors.<ref name="Roche2005"/> In addition, [[Peisistratus]] hung the figure of a kind of grasshopper before the [[Acropolis of Athens]] as [[apotropaic magic]].<ref name="A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0063:id=fascinum-cn A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Fascinum]</ref>

Another symbolic use of the grasshopper is Sir [[Thomas Gresham]]'s gilded grasshopper in [[Lombard Street, London]], dating from 1563;{{efn|The symbol is a wordplay on the name Gresham and "grass".<ref name="Hazard">{{cite book |last=Hazard |first=Mary E. |title=Elizabethan Silent Language |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtFtcD-u6YoC&pg=PA9 |year=2000 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=0-8032-2397-8 |page=9 |quote=research into Elizabethan wordplay reveals the proprietary nature of Gresham's grasshopper. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127023308/https://books.google.com/books?id=wtFtcD-u6YoC&pg=PA9 |archive-date=27 November 2017}}</ref>}} the building was for a while the headquarters of the [[Guardian Royal Exchange]], but the company declined to use the symbol for fear of confusion with the locust.<ref>{{cite web |title=The City's golden grasshopper |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-citys-golden-grasshopper/163810.article |author=Connell, Tim |date=9 January 1998 |publisher=Times Higher Education Supplement |access-date=31 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129085021/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-citys-golden-grasshopper/163810.article |archive-date=29 November 2016}}</ref>

Grasshoppers appearing in dreams have been interpreted as symbols of "Freedom, independence, spiritual enlightenment, inability to settle down or commit to decision". Locusts are taken literally to mean devastation of crops in the case of farmers; figuratively as "wicked men and women" for non-farmers; and "Extravagance, misfortune, & ephemeral happiness" by "gypsies".<ref name=Klein>{{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Barrett A. |title=The Curious Connection Between Insects and Dreams |journal=Insects |date=2012 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=1–17 |doi-access=free |doi=10.3390/insects3010001|pmid=26467945 |pmc=4553613 }}</ref>