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echidna

echidna, an adder, viper

ĕchidna, ae, f., = ἔχιδνα,
  • an adder, viper. The Furies were said to have them twined in their hair; hence: stipite te Stygio tumidisque adflavit Echidnis E tribus una soror, Ov. M. 10, 313.—
  • II Nom. prop.
    • A Lernaea, the Lernaean hydra, killed by Hercules, Ov. M. 9, 69; 158; id. F. 5, 405.—
    • B A monster, half woman and half serpent, the mother of Cerberus, Ov. M. 4, 501.
  • —Hence, Echidnēus, a, um, adj., of Echidna: canis, i.e. Cerberus, Ov. M. 7, 408.

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