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Æscula`pius

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A son of Apollo and the nymph Coronis, whom, for restoring Hippolytus to life, Zeus, at the prayer of Pluto, destroyed with a thunderbolt, but afterwards admitted among the gods as god of medicine and the healing art; the cock, the emblem of vigilance, and the serpent, of prudence, were sacred to him.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Æscula`pius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​a/asculapius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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