[A kind of] snake.
*)/exidna: o)/fis.
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).
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