si licet ex ethicis quidquam praesumere vel si de physicis exempli aliquid, sic vipera, ut aiunt, dentibus emoritur fusae per viscera prolis, mater morte sua, non sexu fertilis aut de concubitu distenta uterum, sed cum calet igni percita femineo, moriturum obscena maritum ore sitit patulo; caput inserit ille trilingue coniugis in fauces atque oscula fervidus intrat, insinuans oris coitu genitale venenum.
If we may draw on the moralists for anything or take an instance from natural history, it is thus, they say, that the viper perishes by the teeth of the progeny that is brought forth through her flesh. She becomes a mother by her own death; she does not bear her young by an organ of sex, nor does her womb swell from intercourse, but when she burns with the excitement of the females heat the lewd beast opens her mouth wide in thirst for a mate that is doomed. He puts his three-tongued head into his spouses jaws, eagerly entering her alluring mouth and inserting his baneful seed by an oral union.
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