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the snake that turned a queen's suicide into history's most theatrical exit
means A small venomous snake of North Africa and the Mediterranean, especially the Egyptian cobra or a horned viper, famous as the agent of Cleopatra's death.
from From Latin 'aspis', borrowed straight from Greek 'aspís' — a word that also meant a round shield. Whether the snake was named for the shield-like flare of a cobra's hood is an old guess rather than settled fact, but the two senses ran side by side in Greek. English picked it up through Old French 'aspe' in the medieval period.
- royal weapon
- Cleopatra's legendary death weapon of choice
- identity crisis
- likely an Egyptian cobra, not a true asp
- venom type
- neurotoxic, paralyzing muscles until breathing stops
- old code
- also a defunct web scripting language
- viper family
- European asp lives across France and Spain
asp viper — venomous snake found across europe, north africa, and asia, one of two venomous snakes in britain
egyptian cobra — species of asp that killed cleopatra around 30 bce, sacred to ancient egyptians
asp fish — freshwater fish in the pike family found in european rivers like the danube