All 15 Uses
serpent
in
Dante's Inferno
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- Little serpents and cerastes they had for hair, wherewith their savage brows were bound.†
Canto 7-9 *serpents = snakes
- Men we were, and now we are become stocks; truly thy hand ought to be more pitiful had we been the souls of serpents.†
Canto 13-15
- His face was the face of a just man (so benignant was its skin outwardly), and of a serpent all the trunk beside; he had two paws, hairy to the armpits; his back and breast and both his sides were painted with nooses and circles.†
Canto 16-18serpent = snake
- See Tiresias,[1] who changed his semblance, when from a male he became a female, his members all of them being transformed; and afterwards was obliged to strike once more the two entwined serpents with his rod, ere he could regain his masculine plumage.†
Canto 19-21serpents = snakes
- —Seventh pit, filled with serpents, by which thieves are tormented.†
Canto 22-24
- And I saw therewithin a terrible heap of serpents, and of such hideous look that the memory still curdles my blood.†
Canto 22-24
- [1] They had their hands tied behind with serpents, which fixed through the reins their tail and their head, and were knotted up in front†
Canto 22-24
- at one, who was on our side, darted a serpent that transfixed him there where the neck is knotted to the shoulders.†
Canto 22-24serpent = snake
- Thenceforth the serpents were my friends, for then one coiled around his neck, as if it said, "I will not that thou say more," and another round his arms and bound them up anew, clinching itself so in front that he could not give a shake with them.†
Canto 25-27serpents = snakes
- a serpent with six feet darts in front of one, and grapples close to him.†
Canto 25-27serpent = snake
- As the lizard under the great scourge of the dog days, changing from hedge to hedge, seems a flash, if it crosses the way, so seemed, coming toward the belly of the two others, a little fiery serpent, livid, and black as a grain of pepper.†
Canto 25-27
- He looked at the serpent, and that at him; one through his wound, the other through his mouth, smoked violently, and their smoke met.†
Canto 25-27
- Let Ovid be silent concerning Cadmus and Arethusa, for if, poetizing, he converts him into a serpent and her into a fountain, I envy him not; for two natures front to front never did he transmute, so that both the forms were prompt to exchange their matter.†
Canto 25-27
- To one another they responded by such rules, that the serpent made his tail into a fork, and the wounded one drew together his feet.†
Canto 25-27
- Cianfa Donati had then appeared as the serpent with six feet, and had been incorporated with Agnello.†
Canto 25-27
Definitions:
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(1)
(serpent) a snake
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) For less common senses of "serpent", see a comprehensive dictionary.