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Seen eon te bel 1 Detleas Hersog repsicey Wile, rOax rods Ba" [ode ontuiees Hetcog 4yvehetoes Hille. otras xa wor einby Mar Aniorgdee cf, Herzog ad no, XXXIV. 5 ebédmBes, ds oie a)" [pe rd yordray: | Stele I. ee aioe 2 God and Good Fortune. brdv obroe de Hoey: Cures of Apollo and Asclepius. [puedarvew pis wep 1. Cleo was with ‘child for five years. After she had been : pregnant for five years she came as a suppliant to the god and slept in the Abaton, As soon as she Jeft it and got outside the temple precincts she bore a son who, immediately after birth, washed himself at the fountain and walked about with his mother, In return for this favor she inscribed on her offering: “ Admirable is not the greatness of the tablet, but the Divinity, in that Cleo carried the burden in her womb for five years, by ob? al Sy] 5 : until she slept in the Temple and He made her sound.” ovhous. aivra dryampl: i 2, A three-years’ pregnancy. Ithmonice of Pellene came to the 0 dha wat o[d rardtxe ‘Temple for offspring. When she had fallen asleep she saw a MBer Boner of 8 O18. G vision. It seemed to her that she asked the god that she might , pera 88 rodro gua) | get pregnant with a daughter and that Asclepius said that she ReoBar deriv, bret would be pregnant and that if she asked for something else heASCLEPIUS: TESTIMONIES would grant her that too, but that she answered she did not © need anything else. When she hiad become pregnant she carried in her womb for three years, until she approached the god as a ‘suppliant concerning the birth. When she had fallen asleep she saw a vision. It seemed to her that the god asked her if she had not obtained all she had asked for and was pregnant; about the birth she had added nothing, and that, although he had asked if she needed anything else, she should say so and he would grant her this too, But since now she had come for this as a suppliant to him, he said he would accord even it to her. After that, she hastened to leave the Abaton, and when she was. outside the sacred precincts? she gave birth to a girl. Aman whose fingers, with the exception of one; were pata- lyzed, came as a suppliant to the god. While looking at the tablets in the temple he expressed incredulity regarding the cures and scoffed at the inscriptions, But in his sleep he saw a vision. It seemed to him that, as he was playing at dice below the Temple and was about to cast the dice, the god appeared, sprang upon his hand, and stretched out his [the patient's] fingers. When the god had stepped aside it seemed to him [the patient] that he [the patient] bent his hand and stretched ‘out all his fingers one by one. When he had straightened them all, the god asked him if he would still be incredulous of the inscriptions on the tablets in the Temple, He answered that he would not, “Since, then, formerly you were incredulous of the cures, thotigh they were not incredible, for the future,” he said, “your name shall be ‘Incredulous.’” When day dawned he walked out sound. + Ambrosia of Athens, blind of one eye. Shecameas a suppliant to the god. As she walked about in the Temple she laughed at some of the cures as incredible and impossible, that the lame and the blind should be healed by merely seeing a dream. In her sleep she had a vision, It seemed to her that the god stood by her and said that he would cure her, but that in payment he would ask her to dedicate to the Temple a silver pig’ as @ memorial of her ignorance. After saying this, he cut the diseased eyeball and poured in some drug. When day came she walked out sound, A voiceless boy. He came as a suppliant to the Temple for his voice. When he had performed the preliminary sacrificesL423, ered she did not nant she carried hhed the god as a fallen asleep she red her if she had gnant; about the ah he had asked 0 and he would ame for this as 2 ito her. After | when she was a girl. one, were para. e looking at the y regarding the is sleep he saw a ng at dice below 1e god appeared, [the patient's} seemed to him nid and stretched raightened them credulous of the inswered that he veredulous of the future,” he said, day dawned he meas a suppliant she laughed at hat the lame and dream. In her t the god stood that in payment silver pig® as a his, he cut the When day came the Temple for inary sacrifices MEDICINE eon and fulfilled the usual rites,‘ thereupon the temple servant who brings in the fire* for the god, looking at the boy's father, demanded he should promise to bring within a year the thank- offering for the cure if he obtained that for which he had come. But the boy suddenly said, “I promise.” His father was startled at this and asked him to repeat it. The boy repeated the words and after that became well. Pandarus, a Thessalian, who had marks on his forehead. He saw a vision as he slept. It seemed to him that the god bound the marks round with-a headband and enjoined him to remove the band when he left the Abaton and dedicate it as an offering to the Temple. When day came he got up and took off the band and saw his face free of the marks; and he dedicated to the ‘Temple the band with the signs which had been on his forehead. Echedorus received the marks of Pandarus in addition to those which he already had. He had received money from Pandarus to offer to the god at Epidaurus in his name, but he failed to deliver it. In his sleep he saw a vision. It seemed to hhim that the god stood by him and asked if he had received any money from Pandarus to set up as an offering an Athena in the Temple. He answered that he had received no such thing from him, but if he [the god] would make him well he would have an image painted and offer it to him [the god]. There- tipon the god seemed to fasten the headband of Pandarus round his marks, and ordered him upon leaving the Abaton to take off the band and to wash his face at the fountain and to ook at himself in the water. When day came he left the Aba- ton, took off the headband, on which the signs were no longer visible, But when he looked into the water he saw his face with his own marks and the signs of Pandarus in addition, Euphanes, a boy of Epidaurus. Suffering from stone he slept in the temple. It seemed to him that the god stood by him and asked: “What will you give me if I cure you?” “Ten dice,” he answered. The god laughed and said to him that he would cure him, When day came he walked out sound. ‘Aman came as a suppliant to the god. He was so blind that of one of his eyes he had only the eyelids eft—within them was nothing, but they were entirely empty. Some of those in the ‘Temple laughed at his silliness to think that he could recover his sight when one of his eyes had not even a trace of the ball,ASCLEPIUS: TESTIMONIES but only the socket. As he slept a vision appeared to hit ‘ seemed to him that the god prepared some drug, then, opening his eyelids, poured it into them. When day came he departed with the sight of both eyes restored. ‘The goblet. A porter, upon going up to the Temple, fell when he was near the ten-stadia stone. When he had gotten up he opened his bag and looked at the broken vessels. When he saw that the goblet from which his master was accustomed to drink was also broken, he was in-great distress and sat down to try to ft the pieces together again. But a passer-by saw him and said: “' Foolish fellow, why do you put the goblet together in vain? For this one not even Asclepius of Epidaurts could put to rights again.” ‘The boy, hearing this, put the pieces back in the bag and went on to the Temple. When he got there he opened the bag and brougiit the goblet out of it, and it was entirely whole; and he related to his master what had happened and had been said; when he [the master] heard that, he dedicated the goblet to the god. ‘Aeeschintes, when the suppliants were already asleep, climbed up a tree and tried to see over into the Abaton. But he fel. from the tree on to some fencing and his eyes were injured. In a pitiable state of blindness, he came'as a suppliant to the god andslept in'the Temple and was healed. : ‘Euuhippts had had for six years the point of a spear in his jaw. As lie was sleeping in the Temple the god extracted the spea head and gave it to him into his-hands. When day came Enhippus departed cured, and he held the spearhead in his hands, ‘Aman of Torone with leeches. In his sleep he saw a dream, It seemed to him that the god cut open his chest with a knife and took out the leeches, which he gave him into his hands, and then he stitched up his chest again. At daybreak he departed with the leeches in his hands and he had become well. He had swallowed them, having been tricked by his stepmother who hhad thrown them into a potion which he drank. : ‘A mian with a stone in his membrum. He saw a dream. ‘Tt seemed to him that he was lying with a fair boy and when he! had a seminal discharge he ejected the stone and picked it up and walked out holding it in his hands. ‘Hermodicus of Lampsacus was paralyzed in body. ‘This one;MEDICINE 233 when he slept in the Temple, the god healed and he ordered him upon coming out to bring to the Temple as large a stone as he could.’ The man brought the stone which now lies before the Abaton. 16. Nicanor, a lame man. While he was sitting wide-awake, a boy snatched his cruttch from him and ran away. But Nicanor got up, purstied him, and so became well 17, Aman had his toe healed by a serpent, He, suffering dread- fully from a malignant sore in his toe, during the daytime was casser-by saw him 98 taken outside by the servants of the Temple and set upon a seat. xe goblet together E ‘When sleep came upon him, then a snake issued from the Abaton and healed the toe with its tongue, and thereafter went back again to the Abaton. When the patient woke up and was healed he said that he had seen a vision: it seemed to him that a youth with a beautiful appearance had put a drug upon his toe. 18, Alcetas of Halieis. This blind man saw a dream, It seemed to him that the god came up to him and with his fingers opened 5 i his eyes, and that he first saw the trees in the sanctuary. At ly asleep, climbed daybreak he walked out sound. aton, But he fell i 19, Heraieus of Mytilene. He had no hair on his head, but an were injured. In’ | abundant growth on his chin, He was ashamed because he was apliant to the god laughed at by others, He slept in the Temple, The god, by q anointing his head with some drug, made his hair grow thereon. ‘aspear inhis jaw, 20, _Lyson of Hermione, a blind boy. While wide-awake he had tracted the spe : his eyes cured by one of the dogs in the Temple and went away ‘When day came healed. veared to him, tug, then, opening ame he departed Epidaurus could tut the pieces back of it, and it was) that had happened = | heard that,- he spearhead in his 27. 48; 738. Sor 75s $06.7 498,01 “Ea 1 SEES ‘an et phe saw a dream, : chest with a knife 77 Stele II. nto his hands, and. ee 21. Arata, a woman of Lacedaemon, dropsical. For her, while break he departed “4% o she remained in Lacedaemon, her mother slept in the temple ome well. He had 5: i and sees a dream. It seemed to her that the god cut off her daughter's head and hung up her body in such a way that her : throat was turned downwards. Out of it came a huge quantity saw a dream, Tt = of fluid matter. Then he took down the body and fitted the boy and when he head back on to the neck.* After she had seen this dream she » and picked it up © went back to Lacedaemon, where she found her daughter in good health; she had seen the same dream. 22, " Hermon of Thasus. His blindness was cured by Asclepius, + stepmother who.” = 1k : n body. This one,234 23. 25, 26. ASCLEPIUS ; TESTIMONIES (423, But, since afterwards he did not bring the thank-offerings, the god made him blind again, When he came back and slept again in the Temple, he [sc., the god] made him well. ‘Aristagora of Troezen. She had a tapeworm in her belly, and she slept in the Temple of Asclepitus at Troezen* and saw ‘a dream. It seemed to her that the sons of the god, while he was not present but away in Epidaurus, cut off her head, but, being unable to put it back again, they sent a messenger to Asclepius asking him to come, Meanwhile day breaks and the priest clearly sees her head cut off from the body. When night approached, Aristagora saw a vision. It seemed to her the god had come from Epidaurus and fastened her head on to her neck, Then he cut open her belly, took the tapeworm out, and stitched her up again, And after that she became well” Aristocritus, a boy of Halieis, under a rock. He, after having dived and swum away into the sea, came then to a dry hiding place which was surrounded by rocks, and he could not find any way out. ‘Thereafter his father, since he did not find him anywhere on his search, came to Asclepius and slept in the ‘Abaton on behalf of his son and saw a dream. It seemed to him that the god led him to a certain place and showed him that there was his son. When he came out of the Abaton and quarried through the cliffs he found his son after seven days. Sostrata, a woman of Pherae, was pregnant with worms. Being in a very bad way, she was carried into the Temple and slept there. But when she saw no distinct dream she let herself be carried back home. ‘Then, however, near a place called Koroi, a man of fine appearance seemed to come upon her and her companions. When he had learned from them about their bad luck, he asked them to set down on the ground the litter in which they were carrying Sostrata, Then he eut open her abdomen and took out a great quantity of worms—two wash- basins full. After having stitched her belly up again and made the woman well, Asclepius revealed to her his presence and enjoined her to send thank-offerings for her treatment to Epidaurus. "A dog cured a boy from Aegina, He had a growth on the reek, When he had come to the god, one of the sacred dogs healed him—while he was awake—with its tongue and made him wellthank-offerings ame back and de him well, y ‘ent a messenger 4 tile day breaks Te seemed to her her head on to seame well? . He, after hay he did not find bint tas and slept in te . Tt seemed to him: nto the Temple team she let herself near a place called come upon her aid m them about theif: re ground the lite ad a growth on the) of the sacred dogs ‘MEDICINE 235 ‘A man with an abscess within his abdomen, When asleep in ‘the Temple he saw a dream. It seemed to him that the god ordered the servants who accompanied him to grip him and hold him tightly so that he could cut open his abdomen. ‘The ‘man tried to get away, but they gripped him and bound him to a door knocker. Thereupon Asclepius cut his belly open, removed the abscess, and, after having stitched him up again, released him from his bonds. Whereupon he walked out sound, but the floor of the Abaton was covered with blood. Cleinatas of Thebes with the lice. He came with a great number of lice on his body, slept in the Temple, and sees a vision. Tt seems to him that the god stripped him and made him stand upright, naked, and with a broom brushed the lice from off his body. When day came he left the Temple well. ‘Hagestratus with headaches. He suffered from insomnia on account of headaches. When he came to the Abaton he fell asleep and saw a dream. Tt seemed to him that the god cured him of his headaches and, making him stand up naked, taught hhim the Iunge used in the pancratium. When day came he departed well, and not long afterwards he won in the pan- cratium at the Nemean games.* Gorgias of Heracleia with pus. In a battle he had been wounded by an arrow in the lung and for a year and a half hhad suppurated so badly that he filled sixty-seven basins with pus. While sleeping in the Temple he saw a vision. It seemed to him the god extracted the arrow point from his lung. When day came he walked out well, holding the point of the arrow in his hands. ‘Andromache of Epeirus, for the sake of offspring. She slept in the Temple and saw a dream. It seemed to her that a hand- some boy uncovered her, after that the god touched her with his hand, whereupon a son was born to Andromache from Arybbas. Anticrates of Cnidos, eyes. In a battle he had been hit by a spear in both eyes and had become blind; and the spear p\ he carried with him, sticking in his face. While sleeping he saw a vision. It seemed to him that the god pulled out the missile and then fitted into his eyelids again the so-called pupils. When day came he walked out sound. ‘Thersandrus of Halieis with consumption. He, when in his temple steep he saw no vision, was carried back to Halieis on aASCLEPIUS: TESTIMONIES [a3 wagon one of the sacred serpents, however, was sitting on the wagon and remained for the greater part of the journey coiled around the axle. When they came to Halieis and Thersandrus was resting on his bed at home, the serpent descended from the ‘wagon and cured Thersandrus. When the city of Halieis made an inquiry as to what had happened and was at a loss regarding the serpent, whether to return it to Epidaurus or to leave it in their territory, the city resolved to send to Delphi for an oracle as to what they should do. ‘The god decided they should leave the serpent there and put up a sanctuary of Asclepiuis, make an image of him, and set it up in the temple, When the oracle was announced the city of Halieis erected the sanctuary of | Asclepius and followed the rest of the god’s commands. of Troezen for offspring. She slept in the Temple and saw a dream. The god seemed to say to her she would have offspring and to ask whether she wanted a male or a female, and that she answered she wanted a male, Whereupon within a year a son was born to her. + of Epidaurus, lame, He came as a suppliant to the sanctuary ona stretcher. In his sleep he saw a vision. Tt seemed to him that the god broke his crutch and ordered him to go and get a ladder and to climb as high as possible up to the top of the sanctuary, The man tried it at first, then, however, lost his courage and rested up on the cornice; finally he gave up and climbed down the ladder little by little. Asclepius at first was angry about the deed, then he laughed at him because he was such a coward. He dared'to carry it out after it had become daytime and walked out unhurt<-" Cephisias . . . with the foot. He laughed at the cures of Asclepius and said: “Tf the god says he has healed lame people. he is lying; for, if he had the power to do so, why has he not healed Hephaestus? ” * But the god did not conceal that he W: inflicting penalty for the insolence. For Cephisias, when riding, was stricken by his bullheaded horse which had been tickled ia the seat, so that instantly his foot was crippled and ot @ stretcher he was carried into the Temple. Later on, after he had entreated him exrnestl, the god made him well. ‘Abaton and slept there and saw a vision, It seemed to bi that the god wound a red woolen fillet around his body and led him for a bath a short distance away from the Temple to a la}MEDICINE 237 of which the water was exceedingly cold.’ When he behaved in a cowardly way Asclepius said he would not heal those people who were too cowardly for that, but those who came to hhim into his Temple, full of hope that he would do no harm to such a man, but would send him away well, When he a i woke up he took a bath and walked out unhurt. ae or leave jeans . ;. Diaetus of Cirrha, He happened to be paralyzed in his knees ed they ne While sleeping in the Temple he saw a dream. It seemed to him Ase if ‘Should fea that the god ordered his servants to lift him up and to carry « When make. ‘him outside the Adyton and to lay him down in front of the When th orci ‘Temple, After they had carried him outside, the god yoked his ts commante 2 f horses to a chariot and drove three times around him in a circle Cee and trampled on him with his horses and he got control over erie a his knees instantly. When day came he walked out sound. a rmale aide a : Agameda of Ceos, She slept in the Temple for offspring and ‘Whereon. female saw a dream, It seemed to her in her sleep that a serpent lay eupon with con her belly. And thereupon five children were born to her. a ‘Timon . . . wounded by a spear under his eye. While sleep- ing in the Temple he saw a dream. It seemed to him that the god rubbed down an herb and poured it into his eye. And he became well. Erasippe of Caphyiae with worms. She had her stomach swollen and was burning all over [?] and could not keep any- thing inside. While sleeping in the Temple she saw a dream. Tt seemed to her that the god massaged her stomach and Kissed her and then gave her a vessel which contained a drug and ordered her to drink it and theri ordered her to vomit; when she had vomited, her dress was full with it. When day came she saw that her whole dress was fall with the evil matter which she had vomited, and thereupon she became well. Nicasibula of Messene for offspring slept in the Temple and saw a dream, It seemed to her that the god approached her ie : with a snake which was creeping behind him; and with that eae 4% 4 snake she had intercourse, Within a year she had two sons. water on, after he ait : . of Cios with gout. While awake he was walking ee a : towards a goose who bit his feet and by making him bleed made He came to the : pe Ut seemed to him E Lk below, No. 25, and 7. 4 $06 7.758, a1, | his body and ted 265.755 m1. sch 0 aan 4 fT. haa, *CET. 317, 8 ‘Temple to a lake “CLT. a7, 11 "CET 46 1S at a loss regariiy and ordered hint) + possible up to the rst, then, however, at him because he: out after it had