v. 42. Adders and cerastes.]
Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis.
Virg. Aen. l. vi. 281.
—spinaque vagi torquente cerastae
. . . et torrida dipsas
Et gravis in geminum vergens eaput amphisbaena.
Lucan. Pharsal. l. ix. 719.
So Milton:
Scorpion and asp, and amphisbaena dire,
Cerastes horn’d, hydrus and elops drear,
And dipsas.