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What does Asclepius mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The god of doctors, medicine and healing. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, husband of Epione, and father of the Asclepiades. His Roman name is Aesculapius.
  2. (astronomy) Short for 4581 Asclepius, an Apollo asteroid.
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When the Greeks conquered Egypt they recognised in him attributes of their medicine god Asclepius, and continued to build temples to him.
Wherefore he smote Asclepius with a thunderbolt and slew him.
She had tape-worm, and while she slept in the Temple of Asclepius at Troizen, she saw a vision.
Of these the Asclepius has some interest as a Latin version of a Hermetic treatise.
Apollo is further supposed to be the father of Asclepius, whose ritual is closely modelled upon his.
Envious Apollo killed Coronis but then snatched unborn Asclepius from the funeral pyre.

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