Note 260:6 — Chapter XXVII
Reading edition
Deane: Serp. Wor. p. 204. See also, Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 29.
"There were numerous oracles of Æsculapius, but the most celebrated one was at Epidaurus. Here the sick sought responses and the recovery of their health by sleeping in the temple. . . . The worship of Æsculapius was introduced into Rome in a time of great sickness, and an embassy sent to the temple Epidaurus to entreat the aid of the god." (Bulfinch: The Age of Fable, p. 397.)