[Drakon,] grandson of Hippocrates, the famous physician;[1] son of Thessalos.[2] He was the father of Hippocrates, who again had a son Drakon, also a physician, [the one] who healed Rhoxane while she was living with Alexander of Macedon.[3]
A dragon, the animal, has a forked tongue, and likewise also the orator.[4]
They say that a dragon, if captured and struck on the head, dies.[5]
In [sc. the book of] Job the Devil is called "dragon." "With an anklet you will pierce his lip."[6]