ὕδρος

hydros

water-snake, Coluber natrix

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 1 486a5–488b28

487a23
Book II 1
Chapter 17 506b32–509a23

508b1
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 16 475b15–476a15

475b27

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὕδρος, ὁ, (ὕδωρ) A. water-snake, Coluber natrix, Il. 2.723, Hdt. 2.76, Arist. HA 487a23, 508b1; λευκὸς ὡς ὕδρου γαστήρ Call. Iamb. 1.218 ( = εἶδος δράκοντος, Sch. in mg.). II. a small water-animal, = φαλάγγιον or σαῦρος, Artem. 4.56. III. the constellation Hydra, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 2.2.13. (Cf. Skt. udrás, OE. oter ‘otter’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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