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Aesculapius

Aesculapius · m

the son of Apollo and the nymph Coronis

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 11s 2 · 101.01/10k
Curculio 7 · 11.35/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
Octavius 3 · 2.59/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
de Natura Deorum 7 · 1.96/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Aescŭlāpĭus — Lewis & Short

Aescŭlāpĭus, i, m., = *)asklhpio/s, acc. to fable,

I 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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