...ain. So Zeus hath willed: Else had he spared the leech Asclepius, skilled To bring man from the dead: the hand divine ...

... just come to Athens; he has been exhibiting in Epidaurus at the festival of Asclepius, and is intending to exhibit at the festival of the Panathenaea... ...sus? ION: No, Socrates; but from Epidaurus, where I attended the festival of Asclepius. SOCRATES: And do the Epidaurians have contests of rhapsodes at...

...ment #63 — Pausanias (40), ii. 26. 7: This oracle most clearly proves that Asclepius was not the son of Arsinoe, but that Hesiod or one of Hesiod’s in... ...es to please the Messenians. Scholiast on Pindar, Pyth. iii. 14: Some say (Asclepius) was the son of Arsinoe, others of Coronis. But Asclepiades says ... ...e was the daughter of Leucippus, Perieres’ son, and that to her and Apollo Asclepius and a daughter, Eriopis, were born: ‘And she bare in the palace A... ...ise: ‘ And Arsinoe was joined with the son of Zeus and Leto and bare a son Asclepius, blameless and strong.’(41) Fragment #67 — Scholiast on Euripides... ...agment #90 — Athenagoras (58), Petition for the Christians, 29: Concerning Asclepius Hesiod says: ‘And the father of men and gods was wrath, and from ... ...ess and prosper- ity. 202 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica XVI. TO ASCLEPIUS (5 lines) (ll. 1-4) I begin to sing of Asclepius, son of Apollo a...

...winds, as if their bodies were a marsh, compelling the inge nious sons of Asclepius to find more names for diseases, such as flatulence and catarrh; ... ...aid, and I do not believe that there were any such diseases in the days of Asclepius; and this I infer from the circumstance that the hero Eurypylus, ... ...l and grated cheese, which are certainly inflammatory, and yet the sons of Asclepius who were at the Trojan war do not blame the damsel who gives him ... ...rmer days, as is commonly said, before the time of Herodicus, the guild of Asclepius did not practise our present system of medicine, which may be sai... ...id; a reward which a man might fairly expect who never understood that, if Asclepius did not instruct his de scendants in valetudinarian arts, the om... ...about the state of his body. Yes, likely enough. And therefore our politic Asclepius may be supposed to have exhibited the power of his art only to pe... ...n of no use either to himself, or to the State. Then, he said, you regard Asclepius as a statesman. Clearly; and his character is further illustrated... ...signed for their good, and though they were as rich as Midas, the sons of Asclepius would have declined to at tend them. They were very acute perso... ...ve declined to at tend them. They were very acute persons, those sons of Asclepius. Naturally so, I replied. Nevertheless, the tragedians and Pindar...

...mean, that he was now restored to health, and made the customary offering to Asclepius in token of his recovery. 1. The doctrine of the immortality of... ...imself up, and said—they were his last words—he said: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, sai...

...ot and cold, bitter and sweet, moist and dry, and the like. And my ancestor, Asclepius, knowing how to implant friendship and accord in these elements...

...name; And soon the Achaeans shouted all for joy, All praising with one voice Asclepius’ son. Lovingly then they bathed him, and with oil Anointed. Al...