After the betrayal by Lucilla and the Senators to free Maximus, Commodus sends two men to Gaius' place, where he's sleeping with one of his mistresses. One of the men places a snake into his bed. It is assumed that this is supposed to be the venomous coral snake, but the order of the color pattern is wrong. Coral snakes have red bands in between yellow bands, which is why the rhyme goes, "Red against yellow, kill a fellow". The snake in this scene is obviously a kingsnake, which has bands of red in between black bands, and so the rhyme for it goes, "Red against black, venom lack".
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