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discovered that the tale of the goats was not full, and that the watch-dog also was absent from the herd, he left, they say, no stone unturned, and on finding the child desired to take him up. As he drew near he saw lightning that flashed from the child, and, thinking that it was something divine, as in fact it was, he turned away. Presently it was reported over every land and sea that Asclepius was discovering everything he wished to heal the sick, and that he was raising dead men to life.
2.26.6There is also another tradition concerning him. Coronis, they say, when with child with Asclepius, had intercourse with Ischys, son of Elatus. She was killed by Artemis to punish her for the insult done to Apollo, but when the pyre was already lighted Hermes is said to have snatched the child from the flames.
2.26.7The third account is, in my opinion, the farthest from the truth; it makes Asclepius to be the son of
0 Asclepius, born to bestow great joy upon mortals,
UnknownThis oracle makes it quite certain that Asclepius was not a son of
Pledge of the mutual love I enjoyed with Phlegyas' daughter,
Lovely Coronis, who bare thee in rugged land
There is other evidence that the god was born in
From the one at
That Asclepius was considered a god from the first, and did not receive the title only in course of time, I infer from several signs, including the evidence of Homer, who makes Agamemnon say about Machaon:—
Talthybius, with all speed go summon me hither Machaon,
Hom. Il. 4.193As who should say, “human son of a god.”
Mortal son of Asclepius.
ch. 27
2.27.1
The sacred grove of Asclepius is surrounded on all sides by boundary marks. No death or birth takes place within the enclosure the same custom prevails also in the island of The image of Asclepius is, in size, half as big as the Olympian Zeus at Near has been built a circular building of white marble, called Tholos (Round House), which is worth seeing. In it is a picture by Pausias note representing Love, who has cast aside his bow and arrows, and is carrying instead of them a lyre that he has taken up. Here there is also another work of Pausias, Drunkenness drinking out of a crystal cup. You can see even in the painting a crystal cup and a woman's face through it. Within the enclosure stood slabs; in my time six remained, but of old there were more. On them are inscribed the names of both the men and the women who have been healed by Asclepius, the disease also from which each suffered, and the means of cure. The dialect is Doric.
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