Ibis, huius ibis, vel ibidis, p. co f. g. Pli. A byrd in Egypt which is high and hath stisfe legs, and a long byll. They profit much the countrie in killing serpents which are brought out of Lybin by southerne windes. Plin. lib. 8.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ībis, is and ĭdis (nom. plur. ibes, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101; 2, 50, 126; gen. ibium, Plin. 30, 15, 49, 142; gen. sing. ibidis, Ov. H. 57; acc. plur. ibidas, Mel. 3, 8fin.; acc. sing. ibim, Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 82; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78; Plin. 10, 48, 68, 134: ibin, Juv. 15, 3; Ov. H. 98), f., = i)=bis, a bird held sacred by the Egyptians, and which lived on water-animals, the ibis: Numenius ibis, Cuv.; Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101; 2, 50, 126; id. Tusc. 5, 27, 78; Plin. 8, 27, 41, 97; Mel. 3, 8, 9.—II.Transf., Ibis, the title of a satiric poem by Ovid (after Callimachus, who bestowed the name of Ibis on Apollonius of Rhodes).