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 ergo coluber in uia que in presentis uitae latitudinem eos ambulare prouocat quibus partendo quasi blanditur. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And they viterberated each other, canis et coluber with the wildest ever wielded since Tarriestinus lashed Pissasphaltium. — ❋ Unknown (2006)
The only other kind is the common grass snake (coluber natrix). ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)
Cf.St. Paul of Nolan, _Letters_, 23, § 135 -- Migne 61, p. 273: Hi enim (i.e. evil spirits) petulantius infirmiora vasa pertentant, sicut non Adam, sed Evam coluber aggressus est. ❋ Eugene A. Hecker (N/A)
Notwithstanding the scepticism of recent commentators, it appears fairly certain that the "fugitive serpent" of Job, xxvi, 13 (coluber tortuosus in the Vulgate) does really stand for the circumpolar reptile. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It was a close tussle, so firmly did the little coluber retain his hold on the ❋ Various (1891)
He became abusive; Abelard was a crawling viper (coluber tortuosus) who had come out of his hole (egressus est de caverna sua), and after the manner of a hydra (in similitudinem hydrae), after having one head cut off at Soissons, had thrown out seven more. ❋ Henry Adams (1878)
It was therefore a viper (coluber); perhaps a python of the New ❋ Unknown (1851)
In lieu of these he possesses a double row of sharp teeth; and, like the "black snake," the "whip," and others of the genus coluber, he is extremely swift, and possesses certain powers of constriction, which are mostly wanting in serpents of the venomous tribes. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The wife of one of my grooms, a robust woman, and the mother of a large family, all living within my grounds, was bitten by a poisonous serpent, most probably a cobra, or coluber maja, and quickly felt the deadly effects of its venom. ❋ Various (1836)
It was therefore a viper (coluber); perhaps a python of the New Continent: I say perhaps, for great naturalists appear to admit that all the pythons belong to the Old, and all the boas to the New World. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
[454] In mysteriis, quibus Sabadiis nomen est, aureus coluber in sinum dimittitur consecratis, et eximitur rursus ab inferioribus partibus. ❋ Jacob Bryant (1759)
Country people talk much of a water-snake, but, I am pretty sure, without any reason; for the common snake (_coluber natrix_) delights much to sport in the water, perhaps with a view to procure frogs and other food. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
Qualis, ubi in lucem coluber, mala gramina paftui, ' ❋ Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield (1796)
(_leopardinus_ and _zamenis_ (or _coluber_) _gemonensis_). ❋ James Joseph Walsh (1903)
