Cerastes

Dictionary under the word cerastes; and every time that we write one of these letters we are making a faded copy of the old picture. ❋ Harry Lyman Koopman (1898)

The cerastes is a snake with horns like a ram's on its head; from this it gets its name, for the Greeks call horns kerata. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the halting-place a "cerastes" (Echis carinata, Merr.), so called from the warty hollows over the eyes (?), was brought to me in a water-bag; the bearer transferred it to the spirit-bottle by neatly thrusting a packing-needle through the head. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

The herpetofauna includes black-necked spitting cobra Naja nigricollis, African puff adder Bitis arietans, west African sand boa Eryx muelleri, sand viper Cerastes cerastes, desert monitor lizard Varanus griseus and various species of gecko. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Today, the cerastes survives as a genus of small, venomous vipers, like this crazy-ass Sidewinder Desert Viper, AKA the crotalus cerastes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Colubri enim et cerasti nomine diabolus uel antichristus significatur ut est illud quod Iacob patriarcha de Dan filio sua prophetauit dicens: Fiat Dan coluber in uia et cerastes in semita mordet ungulas equi et cadet ascensat eius retro. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Non solum enim coluber antichristus set etiam cerastes uocatur. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Common reptiles in the ecoregion include the horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) and desert varan (Varanus griseus). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Indigenous reptiles include grey monitor lizard Varanus griseus, spiny-tailed lizard, Uromastix thomasi, venomous horned viper Cerastes cerastes and carpet viper Echis coloratus, hooded malpolon Malpolon moilensis, sandsnake Psammophis schokari and cat snake Telescopus dhara. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Erit Dan ut serpens juxta viam, ut cerastes juxta semitam, mordens calcaneos equi, et cecidit equitans retrosum. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

It is supposed by Bochart to be the cerastes, "a serpent so called," says Calmet, "because it has horns on its forehead." ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

'The man has a horned viper, _cerastes_ is the name under which you gentlemen of science know it, and it is the most deadly of all Egyptian snakes. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Of all the deadly worms that breed in these wildernesses the most formidable, because the most sluggish, is the two-horned nocturnal cerastes, the "pretty worm of Nilus." ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

It is generally supposed to denote the cerastes, or "horned viper," a very poisonous serpent about a foot long. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)