_Livy._ lib. xi. _Quære_, Whether the Historian’s Faith kept pace with his Pen? _VALERIUS MAXIMUS_ says, that the Priests looking into the _Sibyls Books_, observed there was no other way to restore the City to its former Health, but by bringing the Image of _Æsculapius_ from _Epidaurus_ ... upon which Ambassadors were sent[401]. Footnote 401: _Val. Maxim._ lib. i. cap. 8. See _Ovid. Metamorph._ lib. 25. The Poets and Mythologists, in order to shew there was no Distemper but _Æsculapius_ could cure, said, he raised the Dead. Thus at the Request of _Diana_, he restor’d _Hippolytus_ to Life, who had been torn to pieces by his Horses. We can’t doubt of the Credulity of the People in thinking him rank’d among the Gods, after so many Temples, Inscriptions, and Medals dedicated to his Memory. The most famous Temples consecrated to _Æsculapius_, were that of _Epidaurus_[402], that in the Isle of _Co_, that of _Cyrene_, that of _Pergamos_, that in the Isle of _Tyber_[403]. Footnote 402: _Pliny Nat. Hist._ lib. 4. c. 5. Footnote 403: For these, see _Strabo_, _Val. Maximus_, _Herodot., Livy_. As to the Inscriptions in honour of _Æsculapius_, _Gruterus_ has these following, _viz._ _Æsculapio, Hygeæ, & ceteris Diis & Deabus._ _Deo Æsculapio, & Hygeæ, conservatoribus._ _Deo Æsculapio, & Deæ Hygeæ._ _N. B._ The Title of Conservator, or Saviour, was the ordinary Elogium of _Æsculapius_. In the Isle of _Co_, there was a Coin whereon _Æsculapius_ was called the _Saviour_; and so on a Coin of _Ancyra_. Games are also mentioned, instituted in honour of him as Saviour. The Symbol of _Æsculapius_ was a _Serpent_, or _Dragon_, about a _little Rod_, as may be seen in several Medals, and by the Testimony of the Poet[404]. Wherever he was worship’d in Statues of a _human Figure_, a _Staff was put into his Left-hand, with a Serpent about it_. Footnote 404: _Ovid. Metam._ lib. 5. Qualis in æde.... Esse solet, baculumque tenens agreste sinistra. This seems to be the reason why Antiquity represents the first Masters of Physick (as _Hermes_, _Æsculapius_, _Hippocrates_, in their Statues and Medals) with a _Viper_ added to their _Figure_; and also why they worship’d those _Physicians under the Form of Serpents_[405]. Footnote 405: _Salomonis Cellarii—Origines & Antiquitates Medicæ._ Printed at _Hall_ in _Saxony_. The Serpent of _Æsculapius_, the reputed God of Physick, had its Rise from the miraculous Cures done by _Moses_’s _Serpent_ in the Camp of _Israel_. Serpents of bright and golden Colour were all counted sacred to _Æsculapius_, and were cicur’d, or made tame by human Arts. A _Dragon_ was usually annex’d to his _Image_, and to that of _Health_, nothing being thought _available_ without the _Presence of a Serpent_.