water-snake; snake; the constellation Hydra
Latin word, found 27 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, Letters to his Friends 16.9.2: nos eo die cenati solvimus; inde austro lenissimo caelo sereno nocte illa et die postero in Italiam ad Hydruntem ludibundi pervenimus eodemque vento postridie (id erat a. d. vii K. Dec.) hora iiii Brundisium venimus, eodem …
Vergil, Georgics 2.141: invertere satis inmanis dentibus hydri
Vergil, Aeneid 7.447: deriguere oculi: tot Erinys sibilat hydris
All forms of hydrus