prēster — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

prēster, ēris, m., = πρηστήρ [burning]. A fiery whirlwind, which descends in the form of a pillar of fire, a water-spout, sand-spout: presteras Graici quos ab re nominitarunt, etc., Lucr. 6, 424: turbo ardentior accensusque dum furit, prester vocatur, amburens contacta pariter, et proterens, Plin. 2, 48, 50, § 133: spiritus cum majore vi torti sunt, fit procella terrestris, et a Graecis prester nomen accepit, App. de Mundo, p. 62 fin.— A kind of serpent, whose bite causes a burning thirst: prester quem percusserit, distenditur, enormique corpulentiā necatur extuberatus, Sol. 27, 32: torridus prester, Luc. 9, 791; Plin. 20, 20, 81 § 210; 24, 13, 73, § 117.

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prester

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