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]