The Roman History · Amm. 22.15.27
Egypt also produces innumerable quantities of serpents, destructive beyond all other creatures. Basilisks, amphisbænas, scytalæ, acontiæ, dipsades, vipers, and many others. The asp is the largest and most beautiful of all; but that never, of its own accord, quits the Nile.Read in context ›
Ammianus Marcellinus · translated by C. D. Yonge · 1911 reprint
C. D. Yonge translation (preface dated February 1862); G. Bell and Sons, 1911; Project Gutenberg #28587
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