一切經音義 44.33

44.33

蠅蟻 (flies and ants: the first character is yi + zeng fanqie. Zheng [Xuan]'s commentary to the *Mao Shi* says: "Flies as insects sully black into white, and sully white into black." Guo [Pu]'s commentary to the *Erya* says: "Flies are fond of fluttering their wings." The *Shuowen jiezi* states: "An insect with a large abdomen; composed of 'insect' (虫) and an pictograph of a toad (黽); 黽 is meng fanqie. The second character is yi + yi fanqie, a vulgar character; the standard form is 螘. The *Erya* says: "Pipilika; the large are called pipilika, the small are called ants (螘)." The *Shuowen jiezi* says: "螘 are also pipilika; composed of 'insect' (虫) with qi (豈) as its phonetic element.")