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..."- P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."