Ἰχνεύμων
ονος, ὁ
A.
tracker: hence,
1.
an Egyptian animal of the weasel-kind, which hunts out crocodile's eggs (asp's eggs,Ael. NA 6.38), Herpestes ichneumon, Arist. HA 612a16, Eub. 107.12, Nic. Th. 190, Plu. 2.966d, PLond. 3.904 (ii A.D.); cf. ἰχνευτής 11.
2.
a small kind of wasp, that hunts spiders, Pelopaeus spirifex, Arist. HA 552b26,609a5, cf. Plin. HN 10.204.
3.
a bird, Ant.Lib. 14.