Obs. [app. f. Callicrates, name of a Greek artist celebrated for his minute ivory carvings of ants and other small animals (Pliny, N. H., VII. xxi. § 21, ‘Callicrates ex ebore formicas et alia tam parva fecit animalia ut partes eorum a ceteris cerni non possent’).] An ant.
1596. J. Burel, Passage of Pilgremer. The Calicrat, that lytle thing, Bot, and the hony Bie.
