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Asclepius

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As·cle·pi·us  (-sklp-s)
n. Greek Mythology
Apollo's son, the god of medicine.
Asclepius [əˈskliːpɪəs]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a god of healing; son of Apollo Roman counterpart Aesculapius [ˌiːskjʊˈleɪpɪəs]
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Noun1.AsclepiusAsclepius - son of Apollo; a hero and the Roman god of medicine and healing; his daughters were Hygeia and Panacea
Aesculapius, Asklepios


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Well, I said, and to require the help of medicine, not when a wound has to be cured, or on occasion of an epidemic, but just because, by indolence and a habit of life such as we have been describing, men fill themselves with waters and winds, as if their bodies were a marsh, compelling the ingenious sons of Asclepius to find more names for diseases, such as flatulence and catarrh; is not this, too, a disgrace?
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7: This oracle most clearly proves that Asclepius was not the son of Arsinoe, but that Hesiod or one of Hesiod's interpolators composed the verses to please the Messenians.
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