Coluber, cólubri, pen. cor. m. g. Plin. A serpent lying in the shadowe of woodes. It may be vsed for an adder or snake, although the properties agree not.Breues colubri.Ouid. Longi. Virg. Niuei. Ouid.Venenati. Lucrer. Virides. Horat. Pastus mala gramina coluber.Virg.Crinita colubris Medusa.Ouid.Hauing snakes in steade of hayre.Torquara colubris Alecto.Ouid.Hauing a chaine of snakes.Vallata colubris hydra. Lucret. Villosa colubris guttura.Ouid.Colubra etiam genere fœminino dicitur. Cels. Erebêa colubra.Ouid.Infernall.Mutilatæ cauda colubræ.Ouid.Colubræ cæcæ. Col. Wormes in mens bellies.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cŏlŭber, bri, m. [akin to celer], a serpent, snake (poet.), Verg. G. 2, 320; 3, 418; id. A. 2, 471 (an imitation of Hom. Il. 22, 93: w(s de\ dra/kwn, k.t.l.); Ov. M. 4, 620; 11, 775; Col. 10, 231.—II. Esp., as an attributive of the hair of Medusa, the Furies, the Hydra, etc., Lucr. 5, 27; Ov. M. 9, 73; 10, 21; Luc. 6, 664; Val. Fl. 6, 175.
cŏlūbra, ae, f. [coluber], a female serpent; and in gen., a serpent, snake, Lucil., Turp., and Varr. ap. Non. p. 201, 22 sq.; Hor. C. 1, 17, 8; id. S. 1, 8, 42; Ov. M. 6, 559; Juv. 5, 103; Cels. 5, 27, 3; Col. 10, 230; Plin. 32, 5, 19, 53.—As an attributive of the hair of the Furies, Medusa, etc. (v. coluber), Ov. M. 4, 474; 4, 491; 4, 783; Luc. 9, 634.— Hence, prov.: quas tu edes colubras? i. e.
art thou frantic?
Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 50 Ritschl N. cr.; and: colubra restem non parit, i.e.