anguigena

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

anguĭgĕna, ae, m. [anguis-gigno],

engendered of a snake or dragon , an epithet of the Thebans, who sprang from dragons’ teeth, Ov. M. 3, 531; cf.: draconigena urbs, i. e. Thebes , id. F. 3, 865.

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