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|Text=[[File:woodhouse_1000.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_1000.jpg}}]]See [[Asclepius]]. | |Text=[[File:woodhouse_1000.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_1000.jpg}}]]See [[Asclepius]]. | ||
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|lshtext=<b>Aescŭlāpĭus</b>: i, m., = [[Ἀσκληπιός]]>, acc. to [[fable]],<br /><b>I</b> the [[son]] of [[Apollo]] and the [[nymph]] [[Coronis]], deified [[after]] his [[death]] on [[account]] of his [[great]] [[knowledge]] of [[medicine]], Cic. N. D. 3, 22; Cels. 1 praef. He had a [[temple]] at [[Rome]], on the [[island]] in the [[Tiber]]. Upon the [[kind]] of [[worship]] paid to him, and his attributes, v. [[Festus]], p. 82. Huic gallinae immolabantur, id. ib. The [[principal]] [[seat]] of his [[worship]] in [[Greece]] [[was]] [[Epidaurus]]. In his [[temple]] [[there]] [[was]] a [[magnificent]] [[statue]] of [[ivory]] and [[gold]], the [[work]] of Thrasymedes, in [[which]] he [[was]] represented as a [[noble]] [[figure]], resembling [[that]] of [[Zeus]]. He [[was]] [[seated]] on a [[throne]], holding in one [[hand]] a [[staff]], and [[with]] the [[other]] resting on the [[head]] of a [[dragon]] ([[serpent]]), and by his [[side]] [[lay]] a [[dog]]. There were also [[other]] representations, one [[even]] as [[beardless]], [[very]] [[common]] at an earlier [[period]], Müll. Archaeol. d. Kunst, S. 534 and 535. Serpents, prob. as symbols of [[prudence]] and [[renovation]]. were [[everywhere]] [[connected]] [[with]] his [[worship]]; cf. Spreng. Gesch. d. Medic. 1, 205.!*? Adj.: [[anguis]] [[Aesculapius]], Plin. 29, 4, 22, § 72. | |||
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