. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . neid. ; Schol. in Eurip. ad Alcest. v. 1 ; Gyrald. Si/ntag. Dcor.; Zcnob. Proverb, cent- 1, c. 18; Natal. Coin. 1. 4, c. , a brother of Mercury, who, according to Cicero, was killed by a thunderbolt, and buried at Cynosura. Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1. 3, c. , son of Arsippus and Arsinoe, who improved the art of medicine. Ibid.^Esculapius, autho
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . neid. ; Schol. in Eurip. ad Alcest. v. 1 ; Gyrald. Si/ntag. Dcor.; Zcnob. Proverb, cent- 1, c. 18; Natal. Coin. 1. 4, c. , a brother of Mercury, who, according to Cicero, was killed by a thunderbolt, and buried at Cynosura. Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1. 3, c. , son of Arsippus and Arsinoe, who improved the art of medicine. Ibid.^Esculapius, author of a mathematical work mentioned by Vossius. Ioss. Hist. Math, part 2, c. 50, § (Numis.) is represented mostly, as in fig. 1, under the farm of an old man, with a beard, holding a ?staff round which a serpent is entwined. Sometimes like a .ESI beardless youth, as in fig. 2, on a medal of Caracalla, wherean ox is offering him his foot, the inscription above SUBVENIENTI, i. e. the god .-Esculapiusassisting; underneath Colonia Gcinella Juliana HadrianaPorta. Sometimes he is represented under the form of theserpent twined round a staff without the man, as in a Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. medal of Augustus, fig. 3, bearing the inscription 20-*OKAII2. KiililN. In a medal of Antoninus Pius, fig. 4,the serpent is seen rearing itself out of a ship, emblematicalof the arrival of JEsculapius at Rome, under that figure fromEpidaurus, whence he had been fetched to stay a plague,U. C. 547, B. C. 206. jEsculapiits is represented not onlyin these but other forms on medals struck by the followingtowns:—Aerasus, Adramythium, jEnos, .Ezena, Agragen-tum, Amastria, Asine, Byzantium, Cscsarea, Chios, Claudo-polis, Cos, Cotys, Cyme, Hypsepse, Laodicea, Mantinea, Mes-senia, Midaaeum, Neapolis, Nica;a, Nicomedia, Odessa, Pan-talia, Pergamos, Pvlos, Sicyon, Smyrna, Teios, Tiani,&C. Cic. de Nat. Deor. 1. 3, c. 35 ; Liv. 1. 29, c. 11 ;Ovid. Mel. 1. 15, v. 670; Val
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