Scarabaeus Definition

scarabaei, scarabaeuses
noun

A scarab.

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Synonyms:
  • Scarabaeus sacer
  • scarab

Other Word Forms of Scarabaeus

Noun

Singular:
scarabaeus
Plural:
scarabaeuses

Origin of Scarabaeus

Scarabaeus Sentence Examples

  • In 1548 he took the degree of master of arts; but in the same year he found it necessary to leave England on account of the suspicions entertained of his being a conjurer; these were first excited by a piece of machinery, which, in the Pax of Aristophanes, he exhibited to the university, representing the scarabaeus flying up to Jupiter, with a man and a basket of victuals on its back.

  • There are many varieties of beetle, including a number of species representing the scarabaeus of the ancients.

  • The flex nitive animal gods are not to be confused with the animal not ns ascribed to many cosmic deities; thus when the sun-god Osii was pictured as a scarabaeus, or dung-beetle, rolling its ball Isis lung behind it, this was certainly mere poetical imagery.

  • It has been suggested that Baalzebub was the dung-beetle, Scarabaeus pillularius, worshipped in Egypt.

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