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cŏlū^bra , ae, f. coluber,
I.a female serpent; and in gen., a serpent, snake, Lucil., Turp., and Varr. ap. Non. p. 201, 22 sq.; Hor. C. 1, 17, 8; id. S. 1, 8, 42; Ov. M. 6, 559; Juv. 5, 103; Cels. 5, 27, 3; Col. 10, 230; Plin. 32, 5, 19, § 53.—As an attributive of the hair of the Furies, Medusa, etc. (v. coluber), Ov. M. 4, 474; 4, 491; 4, 783; Luc. 9, 634.— “Hence, prov.: quas tu edes colubras?” i. e. art thou frantic? Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 50 Ritschl N. cr.; and: “colubra restem non parit,” i.e. like produces like, the thorn does not produce grapes, Petr. 45, 9.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.474
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.559
    • Plautus, Stichus, 2.1
    • Lucan, Civil War, 9.634
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 32.53
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 5.27
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