vipereos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →vipereus, viperea, vipereum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
of a viper/snake; of vipers;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...ante sola fui. tristes thalamos infestaque cerno omnia, vipereos ipsi tibi surgere crines.' talia verba dabat conlapsaque flebat..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...felici comptus oliva Archippi regis missu, fortissimus Umbro, vipereo generi et graviter spirantibus hydris spargere qui somnos cantuque..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...clamoribus augent adiciuntque animos. galea tum sumit aena vipereos dentes et aratos spargit in agros. semina mollit humus..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...serpens' Cadmus ait 'fuerat, tum cum Sidone profectus vipereos sparsi per humum, nova semina, dentes? quem si cura..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...auras Pallas adest motaeque iubet supponere terrae vipereos dentes, populi incrementa futuri. paret et, ut presso sulcum patefecit..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...idem per spatium Tityon porreximus ingens, et tria vipereo fecimus ora cani; fecimus Enceladon iaculantem mille lacertis, ambiguae..."