 |
"Serpentes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Draco was an imaginary being, however afterwards accepted and understood. This is manifest from Servius, who distributes the serpentine species into three tribes; and confines the Draco solely to temples: [317]Angues aquarum sunt, serpentes terrarum, Dracones templorum. That the notion of such animals took its rise from the temples of the Syrians and Egyptians, and especially from the Trachones, [Greek: Trachones], at Damascus, seems highly probable from the accounts above: and it may be rendered still more ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant |
Words linked to "Serpentes" : Boidae, family Typhlopidae, family Crotalidae, family Elapidae, snake, Squamata, Viperidae, family Hydrophidae, Elapidae, Colubridae, order Squamata, ophidian, family Boidae, Leptotyphlopidae, serpent, Hydrophidae, family Viperidae, Typhlopidae, suborder Serpentes, family Leptotyphlopidae, family Colubridae, Crotalidae, animal order |
Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com
|
