The serpent revenges itself by inflicting on her a mortal wound. […] In like manner he sent forth the three Parcæ, the serpent Python, Nox, Tartarus, and so forth. […] Serpents and venomous animals were produced from the blood of the slain. […] He is fabled to have sprung out of a crow’s egg, under the form of a serpent. […] He had also a temple at Rome, and was worshipped there under the form of a serpent.