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Amphisbaena

Sources:

• Medieval Bestiary: Anphivena
• Aberdeen Bestiary: Anphivena

• Pliny's Natural History: Book 8

xxxv - 85 geminum caput amphisbaenae, hoc est et a cauda, tamquam parum esset uno ore fundi venenum.

• Isidore: Etymologiae

[12.4.20] Amphisbaena dicta, eo quod duo capita habeat, unum in loco suo, alterum in cauda, currens ex utroque capite, tractu corporis circulato. Haec sola serpentium frigori se committit, prima omnium procedens. De qua idem Lucanus: Et gravis in geminum vergens caput amphisbaena. [21] Cuius oculi lucent veluti lucernae.

Imagines:

	Anphivena (The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages) [click on the thumbnail to see a full-sized view]
	Amphisbaena  (Aberdeen Bestiary) [click on the thumbnail to see a full-sized view]
	Ausibena  (National Library of the Netherlands) [click on the thumbnail to browse the manuscript]