The dipsas is a kind of asp, called in Latin situla because anyone bitten by it dies of thirst. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The scytalas was like "a staff;" the acontias, like "a javelin;" the dipsas was a thirsty snake. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens] Reference
This reptile is probably the torrida dipsas of antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
This bite of the dipsas does seem to fit the description. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Book 12, 4:32: The dipsas is such a rare snake that its trampled without being seen. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision] Reference
As one bit by a dipsas, and with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
And dipsas. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
"It was a dipsas!". From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
"That snake looked very much like a dipsas. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
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