Viper
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
viper · vipers
spoken of as
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)
It seemed like extracting poison from vipers, under an opinion that it would be medicinal.
in the texts
Against Aristogeiton I
A venomous animal used to characterize the nature of a malicious false accuser.
In just the same way, men of Athens, whenever you see a false accuser, a man with the venom of a viper in his nature, do not wait for him to bite one of you, but always let the man who comes across him exact punishment.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Venomous snakes cited in a simile criticizing the court's extraction of doctrine from single words as akin to extracting poison thought to be medicinal.
It seemed like extracting poison from vipers, under an opinion that it would be medicinal.