Note 60 — Chapter XIV · PART II POPULAR BELIEF
W. B. (William Bernard) Hillis translation
In Sikyon Aratos is held to be the son of Asklepios who had visited his mother in the form of a snake: Paus. 2, 10, 3; 4, 14, 7–8 (favourite form of stories of divine parentage: see Marx, Märchen v. dankb. Thieren, 122, 2).