Spider
animal · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
little spiders · spiders · the airy-swinging spider · the spider
spoken of as
1 expressionSpiders1 mention
Memorabilia (Greek)
Much more conveniently, I assure you, than the spiders.
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Cited as an example of instinctive skill in web-weaving for food.
To some, too, a kind of contrivance and skill has been given, as among the little spiders some weave, as it were, a net, that they may dispatch whatever has stuck in it, while others watch, as it were, from an unexpected place, and, if anything falls in, seize it and consume it.
Works and Days
A spider whose web-spinning in daylight is offered as a natural sign marking the excellence of the twelfth day.
but the twelfth is much better than the eleventh, for on it the airy-swinging spider spins its web in full day, and then the Wise One, gathers her pile.
Meditations
An animal used as an analogy for misplaced pride in petty or violent conquest.
The spider is proud when it has caught a fly;
Memorabilia
Creatures whose web-weaving is used as a comparison for contrivance.
Much more conveniently, I assure you, than the spiders.