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cŏlŭber , bri, m. akin to celer,
I.a serpent, snake (poet.), Verg. G. 2, 320; 3, 418; id. A. 2, 471 (an imitation of Hom. Il. 22, 93: ὡς δὲ δράκων, κ.τ.λ.); Ov. M. 4, 620; 11, 775; Col. 10, 231.—
II. Esp., as an attributive of the hair of Medusa, the Furies, the Hydra, etc., Lucr. 5, 27; Ov. M. 9, 73; 10, 21; Luc. 6, 664; Val. Fl. 6, 175.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.620
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.73
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.471
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.320
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.27
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.664
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.175
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