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ἀραχναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀραχναῖος

Structure: ἀραχναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ra/xnh

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a spider

Examples

  • ἔστ’ ἔσκηψεν εὖτ’ ἀφίκετο Ἀραχναῖον αἶποσ, ἀστυγείτονασ σκοπάσ· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:13)
  • ἔστι δὲ ὄροσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Λήσσησ τὸ Ἀραχναῖον, πάλαι δὲ σάπυσ ἐλάτων ἐπὶ Ἰνάχου τὸ ὄνομα εἰλήφει. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 17:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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