Note 2579 — BOOK XXIX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM LIVING CREATURES.
John Bostock translation
In Peloponnesus, the principal seat of his worship. A very full account of his introduction, under the form of a huge serpent, into the city of Rome, is given by Ovid, Met. B. xv. l. 544, et seq. This took place B.C. 293.