Note 3 — V. The various explanations hitherto given.
Reading edition
Look, from Tenedos there come down through the quiet see (I shudder in telling it) two serpents in enormous coils, moving through the sea, and together they direct themselves to the strand: their chests, held up between the waves, and their blood-red mane are held above the waves; the remaining part lashes the sea, and they bent their immense backs in coils. There arises a noise, whilst the ocean skims.—Vergilius, Aeneis, II, 203, sqq.