I. A.. Pertaining to the spider, spider's-: “genus,” Plin. 18, 17, 44, § 156: “texta,” id. 29, 4, 27, § 86.—Hence,
B. Subst.: ărā-nĕum , i, n., a spider's web, = ἀράχνιον: “tollere haec aranea quantum est laboris?” Phaedr. 2, 8, 23.—
2. A disease of the vine and of the olive-tree, Plin. 17, 24, 36, § 7.—
II. Araneus mus, a kind of small mouse, acc. to some the shrew-mouse, Col. 6, 17, 1; Plin. 8, 58, 83, § 227.