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aesculapius
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What does aesculapius mean?
proper noun
- The god of medicine and healing. Greek counterpart: Asclepius.
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This time, the dish is a magnificent Aesculapius' snake, a yard and a half long and as thick as a wide bottleneck.
What says my Aesculapius, my Galen, my heart of elder, ha?
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Besides the major gods, representatives of Apollo, AEsculapius and Minerva, there were scores of lesser ones who could be invoked for special diseases.
Plato does not believe that AEsculapius troubled himself to provide by regimen to prolong life in a weak and wasted body, useless to his country and to his profession, or to beget healthful and robust children; and does not think this care suitable to the Divine justice and prudence, which is to direct all things to utility.