Significatio vocis anguimanus | Babel Free

Definitiones

serpent-handed (used by Lucretius as a poetic epithet of the elephant)

Exempla

“[…] sicut quadripedum cum primis esse videmus in genere anguimanūs elephantōs, India quōrum milibus e multis vallo⟳ munitur eburno, ut penitus nequeat penetrari: […]”

1924 translation by W. H. D. Rouse, revised by Martin F. Smith as in the race of quadrupeds we see especially snake-handed elephants, which in their many thousands provide an ivory palisade about India, so that none may penetrate within

“Inde boves Lucas turrito corpore, tetras, anguimanūs, bellī docuērunt volnera Poenī”

1924 translation by W. H. D. Rouse, revised by Martin F. Smith Next the Lucanian oxen with turreted backs, hideous creatures, snake-handed, were taught by the Carthaginians to endure the wounds of war, and to confound the great hosts of Mars.

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