“When I was an irrational child, I would rip off the big legs of grasshoppers and I would set them down on rocks or on the ground or wherever. There, having set them down, they were completely motionless, but when I would touch one of them, it would leap up and actually move from here to there, as if it had sensation.”

ἐγὼ γὰρ οὑτωσὶ ἀλόγως παῖς ὢν ἀνέσπων τοὺς μεγάλους τῆς ἀκρίδος πόδας καὶ ἐτίθουν αὐτοὺς ἐν πέτρᾳ ἢ γῇ ἢ ὅπου ἂν ἔτυχεν· ἐν ᾧ τεθέντες ἦσαν πάμπαν ἀκίνητοι. ὁπηνίκα δ' ἡψάμην τινὸς αὐτῶν, ἥλλετο καὶ ὅλως ἐκινεῖτο ἐκ τοῦδε εἰς τόδε τὸ ὑποκείμενον, ὡς δηλονότι αἴσθησιν ἔχον.

Michael of Ephesus, Commentary on Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia, 102.19–23 Wendland