[100] Ἰητήρ ἀμύμων.
[101] Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
[102] The stadium equals 600 feet; 625 Roman or 606¾ English feet make a stadium.
[103] Cicero informs us that there were three distinguished physicians of the name. “The first Æsculapius,” says he, “the god of Arcadia, who passes for the inventor of the probe and the manner of binding up wounds, is the son of Apollo. The second, who was slain by a thunderbolt and interred at Cynosura (in Arcadia), is a brother to the second Mercury. The third, who found out the use of purgatives and the art of drawing teeth, is the son of Arsippus and Arsinoë. His tomb may be seen in Arcadia and the grove that is consecrated to him, pretty near the river Lusius.” On the Nature of the Gods, iii.
[104] The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients Explained from History, vol. iii, p. 160. London, 1740. Translated from the French. The account of Æsculapius given is one of the best I have met with.
[105] Iliad, iv, lines 193-4. [Vide supra.]
[106] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 212.
[107] Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
[108] Walden, p. 85.
[109] The Greek for raven or crow is κορώνη.