[285] The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients Explained from History, vol. iii, p. 160. London, 1740.
[286] New System of Mythology, vol. iii, p. 456. Philadelphia, 1819.
[287] Now called Beyrout.
[288] Damascius, in his Life of Isidorus, uses the phrase “Esmun, who is interpreted Asclepius.”
[289] Daughters of Titan, by Astarte.
[290] See Cory’s Ancient Fragments, p. 14. Edition by Hodges.
[291] From the Semitic word Kabir, great.
[292] Cory’s Ancient Fragments, p. 19.
[293] Chambers’s Encyclopædia.
[294] The temple of the god at Carthage was of great splendor and renown. See Dr. Davis’s Carthage and its Remains, ch. xvii. London, 1861. Says the Doctor: “The Temple of Æsculapius was as prominent a feature of Carthage as the Capitoline hill was at Rome, or as St. Paul’s is in London” (p. 369). It was on a rocky eminence (the Byrsa). Ruins of the staircase still remain.