10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIPSADES»
Discover the use of
dipsades in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dipsades and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Reptiles of British India
Pll, Wagl. carinata, Kit/ll . XII. DIPSADES—DIPSADID'E. Malayan Peninsula
Anamallsy Mountains Bengal? . . . . Malayan Peninsula Assam, China? . Bengal,
Eastern India Peninsula of India, Bengal . Subathoo . . Piuang, Bengal . Ceylon .
Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, 1864
2
Comparative Criticism: Volume 3: A Yearbook
(609-10) Dry asps stood on the edge, dipsades thirsted in the midst of the waters.
' 7 Here the figura etymologica dipsades (from Stvydoo the Greek word for 'thirst')
sitiebant is the sort of stylistic trick that, as we shall see, Lucan (like Milton) ...
3
Traditional Aspects of Hell: (ancient and Modern)
His demons are also armed with hooks and with dipsades. The dipsades are
provoked by the demons, to make their bites more deadly. Those bitten lose their
wits, and are vexed with a raging thirst which causes them to despise heavenly ...
4
The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, ...
The twelfth family are the Dipsades, or Dipsa- didse. All the Indian species with a
grooved fang behind ; and several, moreover, with fangs in front. The Indian
dipsades are nocturnal tree snakes, with a vertical pupil, a short, broad head, and
...
5
The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: ...
The twelfth family are the Dipsades, or Dipsa- didse. All the Indian species witli a
grooved fang behind ; and several, moreover, with fangs in front. The Indian
dipsades are nocturnal tree snakes, with a vertical pupil, a short, broad head, and
...
766. dipsades: The second-century AD Greek satirist Lucian wrote a short
description of desert Libya and the dipsas, its worst and deadliest snake, which
makes one die of thirst (On the Dipsades); in Greek dips- means “thirst.” The
soldier ...
These flying scorpions likewise are (as far as I know) unknown to the 4l88erns. f
The dipsades are nowhere more frequent than in Africa and in Arabia deserta.
They are most commonly produced in regions bordering upon the sea, and
where ...
Lucian (of Samosata.), Christoph Martin Wieland, 1820
Lucian in the Dipsades quoting the same Plato: 10 'Never too much of the
beautiful.' In general, there is such a power in excellent things that the more often
and the more closely they are examined the more they please, as Horace says: '
This, ...
9
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum, Or, the Most Beautiful and ...
Stabant in margine fices Aspides, in mediis sitiebant Dipsades undis._-Ductor, ut
aspexit perituros fonte relicto, Alloquitur: Vana specie conterrite leti, Ne dubita,
miles, tutos haurire liquores : Morsu virus habent, 8: fatum in dente minantur ...
... vogue under the early Principate. That it remained of interest is confirmed by
Lucian's brief On the Dipsades (mid-second century AD). Many of the snakes'
names are Greek words which express their nature. Haemorrhois: lit. 'flowing
blood'.
