Definitions for Asclepius

Asclepius As·cle·pi·us

Spelling: [uh-sklee-pee-uh s]
IPA: /əˈskli pi əs/

Asclepius is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 550 anagrams from letters in Asclepius (aceilpssu).

Definitions for Asclepius

noun

  1. a son of Apollo and the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing, worshiped by the Romans as Aesculapius.

Examples for Asclepius

The Sicyonians accorded him hero-worship as a “son of Asclepius.”

Apollo is further supposed to be the father of Asclepius (Aesculapius), whose ritual is closely modelled upon his.

Which is hotter to the taste—the water in your house or the hot spring in the temple of Asclepius?

The people of Tricce, Ithome, and chalia, under the sons of Asclepius.

The story of Coronis, her son Asclepius, and Hippolytus (7-58).

She had tape-worm, and while she slept in the Temple of Asclepius at Troizen, she saw a vision.

Wherefore he smote Asclepius with a thunderbolt and slew him.

Then they sent a messenger to Asclepius asking him to come to Troizen.

This was the reason why Asclepius and his sons practised no such art.

His last words were, “Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius.”

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