[40] As by Aristophanes in Plutus. In Liddell & Scott’s Lexicon Πἁρώας is defined to be “a reddish-brown snake sacred to Æsculapius.”
[41] Thierleben. Grosse Auflage. Dritte Abtheilung. Erster Band. Seite 348. Leipzig, 1878.
[42] General Zoology, part ii, p. 452. London, 1802.
[43] Coronella venustrissima.
[44] Animal Kingdom, vol. ix, p. 263.
[45] Reptiles and Birds, p. 92. New York, 1870.
[46] The Medical and Surgical Reporter for January 5th and 12th, 1884.
[47] Travels in the Morea, vol. ii. London, 1830.
[48] Mr. Thos. W. Ludlow, of Yonkers, N. Y., has two interesting letters on the subject in the New York Nation, September 28, 1882, and February 15, 1883. No comprehensive account has as yet appeared in either the English, French, or German language. An interesting article on “Æsculapia as Revealed by Inscriptions,” by Prof. A. C. Merriam, in Gaillard’s Medical Journal for May, 1885, partly meets the want.
[49] Geography, viii. Translation in Bohn’s Library.