Note 93 — Chapter X

In the History of Herodotus, if this be meant above, the name of Esculapius does not occur. The denomination of Rumí may be applied to Asia Minor, Turkey, the whole ancient and modern empire of the Greeks and Romans; in so vast a space there was certainly more than one town with a temple and an oracular statue of Esculapius. One circumstance is singularly true in the above account of Apu, to wit: that Esculapius was formerly called Apius, Αρωγὸν αὐδήσουσιν Ἠπίου γόνον: adjutorem invocabunt Æsculapii filium—(see Lycophron, v. 1054); and that he was often confounded with the sun, as son of Apollo, who also was the sun, and of the nymph Coronnis, who was the daughter of Phlegyas, that is, “the heat of the sun.”