Philip Hart writes:
>On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Joshua Kronengold wrote:
>> Hermes's silver snake,
>> I speed but do not slither,
>> Burrow but do not dig.
>> What am I?
>I thought "caduceus", the snake-twined staff or wand Hermes carries as he
>leads souls to Hades, but that seems rather obscure.
It would not be beyond me to make a riddle whose answer is "cadescus"
(or however one spells it), but this is not that riddle.
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