Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Arachne

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ARACH'NE. A particular kind of sun-dial, which is naturally believed to have received its name from a resemblance to the spider's web produced by the hour lines intersecting the circles of the equator and tropics, described upon it; but of which no ancient specimen has been discovered. Vitruv. ix. 8.