[112]. Caret Sonalibus. Nierembergius, p. 269.
This Creature is little in Body, but great and terrible in its Executions; for when it wounds any Persons, all the Blood in the Body flows out, at all the Apertures of it, which is immediately follow’d with Convulsions and Death[[113]].
[113]. Gyllius, p. 261. Raii Synopsis Meth. 8vo. A. D. 1693. Invenitur in Ægypto & aliis locis quibus Thonis imperavit. ibid. & in agris Jucatensibus.
At non stare suum miseris passura cruore
Squamiferos ingens Hæmorhois.
The Atlas from Ribeyro mentions an Indian Serpent of the same malignant Nature, whose Poison operates with such Violence, that the Person wounded by it bleeds at the Eyes, Nostrils, Ears, and all the Pores of the Body, and the miserable Patient is irrecoverable.
The Poet laments the Death of the brave and noble Tullus[[114]], by this bloody Serpent; which is also found in India (according to Diodorus Siculus) in that part where Alexander the Great conquer’d Porus, the Great King of the Indies. The Conqueror bid Porus ask of him whatever he desired; who answered, That he only desired to be treated as a Prince: with which Alexander was so charm’d, that he not only gave him his Kingdom again, but some of the Provinces he had conquered in that Vicinity.
N. B. On the Bank of the River Hydaspis, Alexander built a Town, which he call’d Bucephala, in remembrance of Bucephalus his great Horse, which died and was buried there.
[114]. Lucan, lib. ix. p. 269. Impressit dentes Hemorhois aspera Tullo magnanimo Juveni.
V. The Serpent Seps, which by some is said to be the same with Sepedon, is about two Cubits long, the Head broad, and of divers Colours. Both these are of the smaller Species, but most venemous, and therefore are rank’d in the second Class of Serpents. The Virulency of the Poison is not in proportion to their diminutive Stature.