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Cerastes   Listen
noun
Cerastes  n.  (Zool.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.






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... passed in their journey from Egypt to Phoenicia, from Phoenicia to Greece, from Greece to Italy, and from Italy to England, when we write a capital F [Cursive F], when we draw the top line and the smaller line through the middle of the letter, we really draw the two horns of the cerastes, the horned serpent, which the ancient Egyptians used for representing the sound of f. They write the name of the king whom the Greeks called Cheops, and ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller



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