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Definition of Aescolapius

Æscula`pius, 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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Æs`cu*la"pi*us (&?;), n. [L. Aesculapius, Gr. &?;.] (Myth.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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