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Definition of Aesculapius
1. Noun. Son of Apollo; a hero and the Roman god of medicine and healing; his daughters were Hygeia and Panacea.
Generic synonyms: Graeco-roman Deity, Greco-roman Deity
Derivative terms: Aesculapian
Definition of Aesculapius
1. Proper noun. (Roman god) The god of medicine and healing. Greek counterpart: Asclepius ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Aesculapius
1. The god of medicine. Hence, a physician. Origin: L. Aesculapius, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aesculapius
Literary usage of Aesculapius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"aesculapius AND 23. 7. the Phoenician legend that aesculapius etc. The Phoenician
counterpart of aesculapius is commonly thought to have been Eshmun. one of ..."
2. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"aesculapius. — The outbreak of a pestilence at Rome in 292 BC turned the Romans
to a consultation of the Sibylline books, where they discovered directions ..."
3. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"aesculapius. — The outbreak of a pestilence at Rome in 292 BC turned the Romans
to a consultation of the Sibylline books, where they discovered directions ..."
4. Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated by Louis Dyer (1891)
"... and the renown of his Athenian shrine founded from Epidaurus in historical times.
In the days of his widest influence aesculapius, the god of healing, ..."
5. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"aesculapius. — The outbreak of a pestilence at Rome in 292 BC turned the Romans
to a consultation of the Sibylline books, where they discovered directions ..."
6. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1880)
"After aesculapius had grown up, n port* spread over all countries, ... According to
the other tradition, aesculapius on one occasion was shut up in the ..."
7. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by Robert Browning, W. Tyas Harden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, William Groser (1880)
"A Statue of /Esculapius—the same as in the Borghese Gardens in the temple there.
L. AN aesculapius. A Statue of /Esculapius far superior. ..."
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