No reptiles are found there, and no snake can live there; for, though often carried… — Venerable Bede
No reptiles are found there, and no snake can live there; for, though often carried thither out of Britain, as soon as the ship comes near the shore, and the scent of the air reaches them, they die.
In the original Latin
Hibernia autem et latitudine sui nullum ibi reptile uideri soleat, nullus uiuere serpens ualeat; nam saepe illo de Brittania adlati serpentes, mox ut, proximante terris nauigio, odore aeris illius adtacti fuerint, intereunt
Ecclesiastical History of the English People · 731
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Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 1.
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Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, bk. 1, ch. 1.
