ἰχνεύμων
From LSJ
Κύριε, σῶσον τὸν δοῦλον σου κτλ. → Lord, save your slave ... (mosaic inscription from 4th cent. church in the Negev)
English (LSJ)
ονος, ὁ,
A tracker: hence, 1 an Egyptian animal of the weasel-kind, which hunts out crocodile's eggs (asp's eggs,Ael.NA6.38), Herpestes ichneumon, Arist.HA612a16, Eub.107.12, Nic.Th.190, Plu.2.966d, PLond.3.904 (ii A.D.); cf. ἰχνευτής 11. 2 a small kind of wasp, that hunts spiders, Pelopaeus spirifex, Arist.HA552b26,609a5, cf. Plin.HN10.204. 3 a bird, Ant.Lib. 14.
