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"Galen appears uncertain<br />

whether Asklepius (as well as<br />

Dionysus) was originally a<br />

god, or whether he was first a<br />

man and then became afterwards<br />

a god; but Apollodorus<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essed to fix the exact date<br />

<strong>of</strong> his apotheosis. Throughout<br />

all the historical ages the descendants<br />

<strong>of</strong> Asklepius were numerous<br />

and widely diffused.<br />

<strong>The</strong> many families or gentes,<br />

called Asklepiads, who devoted<br />

themselves to the study<br />

and practice <strong>of</strong> medicine, and<br />

who principally dwelt near the<br />

temples <strong>of</strong> Asklepius, whither<br />

sick and suffering men came<br />

to obtain relief—all recognized<br />

the god not merely as the object<br />

<strong>of</strong> their common worship,<br />

but also as their actual progenitor."—Grote<br />

vol. i. p. 248.

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