ἰχνεύμων: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ονος, ὁ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[tracker]]: hence, </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> an Egyptian animal of the weasel-kind, [[which hunts out]] crocodile's eggs (asp's eggs,<span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>6.38</span>), [[Herpestes ichneumon]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>612a16</span>, <span class="bibl">Eub.107.12</span>, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>190</span>, Plu.2.966d, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>3.904</span> (ii A.D.); cf. ἰχνευτής <span class="bibl">11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> a small kind of wasp, [[that hunts]] spiders, [[Pelopaeus spirifex]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>552b26</span>,<span class="bibl">609a5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>10.204</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> a bird, <span class="bibl">Ant.Lib. 14</span>.</span>