Aesculapius

[ es-kyuh-ley-pee-uhsor, especially British, ee-skuh- ]

noun

1. the ancient Roman god of medicine and healing.

Aesculapius

/ ˌiːskjʊˈleɪpɪəs /

noun

1. the Roman god of medicine or healing Greek counterpartAsclepius

Example Sentences

A short walk along the Tiber and across the Ponte Fabricio footbridge lands you on Tiber Island, sacred to Aesculapius, the god of healing.

From New York Times

The cause of her death went back into the past, to the time when Apollo in anger at Zeus for killing his son Aesculapius killed Zeus’s workmen, the Cyclopes.

From Literature

"He soon became a reformer and fixed his abode in the Temple of Aesculapius."

From Fox News

He nicknamed the “small, portly” lab worker who briefed him on the chemical effects Aesculapius, after the Greek god of medicine.

From The Guardian

He was a member of the family of the Asclepiadae, and was believed to be either the nineteenth or seventeenth in direct descent from Aesculapius.

From Project Gutenberg