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Proverbia de Araneis

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These proverbs about the Spider (Aranea or Araneus) are about the spider web, which is both a deceitful trap, but also something flimsy and insubstantial.

For more information about the spider in Latin bestiaries, visit the Araneus in the Zoo. If you find some of the proverbs below difficult to understand, you will find some English translations at the Zoo page, along with some additional notes there that you might find helpful!

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Aranearum telas
texit.

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Ex se fingit
velut araneus. 		 
Lex est araneae tela:
muscae retinentur;
pertransit autem avis magna. 		autem: postpositive
Araneis abundat.  
Plenus sacculus est
aranearum. 		 
Aranearum plenus
alvus. 		 
Aranea
prolem nescit
ut suam educet.

prolem...suam: split phrase

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