Crossword-Solution: AESCULAPIUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aesculapius | n. | The god of medicine. Hence, a physician. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “AESCULAPIUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Classical god of medicine. | 1 answer |
| god of healing | 1 answer |
| Panacea's father | 2 answers |
| god of medicine | 2 answers |
| EPIONE, husband of | 3 answers |
| HUGEIA, father of | 3 answers |
| HYGEIA, father of | 3 answers |
| MACHAON, father of | 3 answers |
| PANACEA, father of | 3 answers |
| PODALIRUS (Sophocles, Philoctetes), father of | 3 answers |
| SNAKE-worshipping people | 5 answers |
| god of hunting | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AESCULAPIUS (5)
When sickness call'd for Marshall's healing hand, With what compassion did his soul expand? In him we found the father and the friend: In life how lov'd! how honour'd in his end! And must not then our AEsculapius stay To bring his ling'ring infant into day? The babe unborn in the dark womb is tost, And seems in anguish for its father lost.
The Greeks believed that darkness overshadowed the earth at the deaths of Prometheus, Atreus, Hercules, Aesculapius, and Alexander the Great.
This idea underlies the connection of the priestly class with the healing art: a connection of which we have survivals among rude tribes in all parts of the world, and which is seen in nearly every ancient civilization--especially in the powers over disease claimed in Egypt by the priests of Osiris and Isis, in Assyria by the priests of Gibil, in Greece by the priests of Aesculapius, and in Judea by the priests and prophets of Jahveh.
Just as formerly patients were cured in the temples of Aesculapius, so they were cured in the Middle Ages, and so they are cured now at the shrines of saints.
For Gregory of Nazianen and the similarity of these Christian cures in general character to those wrought in the temples of Aesculapius, see Sprengel, vol.
Quotes with AESCULAPIUS (1)
And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter. For you know how many sons your esteemed writers ascribed to Jupiter: Mercury, the interpreting word and teacher of all; Aesculapius, who, though he was a great physician,…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1947).