Seps, Rochester Bestiary, c.1230

The mythical seps is a small snake with a deadly corrosive poison which consumes both the body and bones of any creature it bites.

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Seps exiguus serpens que non solum corpus. sed
etiam ossa veneno consumit. Cuius poeta sic me-
minit. Ossaque dissolvens cum corpore tabificus
seps;

Seps are a small snake that consumes not only the body, but also the bones with poison. Whose poet thus remembers. And breaking the bones with the body of the fence.