Serpents reputed the fathers of human beings, i. 80 sqq.;
as embodiments of Aesculapius, 80 sq.;
worshipped in Mysore, 81 sq.;
as reincarnations of the dead, 82 sqq.;
fed with milk, 84 sqq., 87;
thought to have knowledge [pg 312] of life-giving plants, 186;
souls of dead kings incarnate in, ii. [163], [173]
Servius, on the death of Attis, i. 264 n. 4;
on the marriage of Orcus, ii. [231];
on Salacia as the wife of Neptune, [233]