Note 270 — Chapter X · VARIOUS ATTRIBUTES OF ÆSCULAPIUS.
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Tooke states that by genius is generally meant “that spirit of nature which produces all things, from which generative power it has its name.... The images of the genii resembled, for the most part, the form of a serpent. Sometimes they were described like a boy, a girl, or an old man.” Pantheon, p. 240.