The Snake of the Euphrates

Among ourselves a weak and soft bite moreover that there is a sort of mice which flies at people and when it bites causes them to die 149 in Mesopotamia a region of Syria and at is stress they say that there are certain little snakes which do not bite the people of the country but do great injury to strangers 150 at the Euphrates they say that this especially happens for that many are seen about the edges of the river swimming towards either bank.