Tellus engages the 'notable witch'
Dipsas to make her erstwhile lover Endymion fall into 'such a dead sleep that nothing can wake or move him'.
The best-known episode of the Theriaca tells how a thirsty donkey trades humankind's immortality to the
dipsas snake for a drink of water (342-58).
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Dipsas catesbyi (Sentzen, 1796) 2 Drepanoides anomalus (Jan, 1863) 1 Drymoluber dichrous (Peters, 1863) 1 Taeniophallus affinis (Gunther, 1858) 2 Echinanthera melanostigma (Wagler in Spix, 1824) 3 Elapomorphus quinquelineatus (Raddi, 1820) 12 Epicrates cenchria (Linnaeus, 1758) 3 Erythrolamprus a.
Scott suggests that Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra is a serpent-woman, related to the classical
Dipsas, but a 'redeeming' version.
Sir Thopas falls in love first with
Dipsas and then with Bagoa, two old sorceresses; as Epiton memorably puts it, "[his] master loveth antique work" (5.2.35).
Feeding behavior of the snail-eating snake
Dipsas indica.
Nuevos registros de distribucion geografica con notas bioecologicas sobre
Dipsas indica, Laurenti, 1768 (Serpentes: Colubridae) en Venezuela.
Variation in reproductive parameters of three metropical snakes, Coniophanes fissidens,
Dipsas catesbyi, and Imantodes cenchoa.