ANGITIA, or ANGITIA (from Anguis) an Italian divinity, was believed to have once been a mortal woman, and to have taught the people the use of antidotes for the poison
of serpents. After death she received divine honours from the Marsians and Marrubians about the shores of lake Fucinus. She has also been identified with Medea.—Virg. Æneid. vii. 759; Serv. ad Æn. vii. 750; Sil. Ital. viii. 500.