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cerastes

cerastes · m

A horned serpent

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Where it lives

De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

cĕrastes — Lewis & Short

cĕrastes, ae or is, m., = kera/sths (horned).

I A horned serpent, the cerastes: Coluber cerastes, Linn.; Plin. 8, 23, 35, § 85; 11, 37, 45, § 126; Luc. 9, 716; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27; Cels. 5, 27, 7; as an attrib. of the hair of the Furies, Stat. Th. 1, 103; 11, 65; Claud. ap. Rufin. 1, 96; id. Rapt. Pros. 2, 346.—

II A kind of horned worm injurious to trees, Plin. 16, 41, 80, § 220; 17, 24, 37, § 221.—

III As nom. propr.: Cĕrastae, ārum, m., acc. to the fable, a horned people in Cyprus, changed by Venus into bullocks, Ov. M. 10, 222 sq.

In the wild

cerastes Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p8
cerastes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.41
cerastes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.24.p4
cerastes Celsus, De Medicina 5.27.p9

Where it came from

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