Ἔχιδνα
viper
Translated by Catharine Roth11 Feb 2008Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[A kind of] snake.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἔχιδνα· ὄφις.
Betacode
*)/exidna: o)/fis.
Notes
- Similarly glossed in ps.-Herodian and the Etymologicum Magnum; and cf. epsilon 4006.
For this primary sense of the headword see LSJ s.v., where other senses are also attested, esp. 'a treacherous wife or friend' and, in upper case, the mythical monster Echidna (half-women, half-snake; mate of Typhon [tau 1226]; Hesiod, Theogony 295ff., etc.; OCD(4) 483).