What is "leps"

Usage examples of "leps".

But you are right to compliment their wings: Leps are subject to flattery.

You are worse than the asp that poisoned Cleopatra, worse than the horned viper whose deceits delight the birds then sacrificed to its hunger, worse than the amphisbaena that, on anyone it grasps, scatters such venom that in an instant he dies, worse than the dread leps that, armed with four venomous teeth, corrupts the flesh it bites, worse than the jacule that darts from trees and stran­gles its victim, worse than the colubra that vomits its poison into fountains, worse than the basilisk that kills with his gaze!