Go with good omens, and expect success.”
The Senate appointed an embassy to carry out the order:—
“Who sail to Epidaurus’ neighbouring land.”
To it the god (Æsculapius) is represented as saying:—
“I come and leave my shrine.
This serpent view, that with ambitious play
My staff encircles, mark him every way;
His form, though larger, nobler, I’ll assume,
And, changed as gods should be, bring aid to Rome.”