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ichneumon

ichneumon · m

An animal which tracks the crocodile and destroys its eggs; the Egyptian rat

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Where it lives

de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

ichneumon — Lewis & Short

ichneumon, ŏnis, m., = i)xneu/mwn.

I An animal which tracks the crocodile and destroys its eggs; the Egyptian rat or ichneumon, Plin. 8, 24, 35, § 88; 8, 25, 37, § 90 sq.; Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101; Mart. 7, 87, 5; Nemes. Cyneg. 54.—

II An insect, the ichneumon-fly, Sphex sabulosus, Linn.; Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 204; 11, 21, 24, § 72.

In the wild

ichneumones Vitruvius, De Architectura 8.2.7
ichneumonum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.63.p5
ichneumonum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.9.p9
ichneumone Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.8.p38
ichneumone Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.29.p26
ichneumon Martial, Epigrammata 7.87.5

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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