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Epidaurus (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 28
Argolis (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 28
India (India) (search for this): book 2, chapter 28
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The serpents, including a peculiar kind of a yellowish color, are considered sacred to Asclepius, and are tame with men. These are peculiar to Epidauria, and I have noticed that other lands have their peculiar animals. For in Libya only are to be found land crocodiles at least two cubits long; from India alone are brought, among other creatures, parrots. But the big snakes that grow to more than thirty cubits, such as are found in India and in Libya, are said by the Epidaurians not to be serpenLibya, are said by the Epidaurians not to be serpents, but some other kind of creature.
As you go up to Mount Coryphum you see by the road an olive tree called Twisted. It was Heracles who gave it this shape by bending it round with his hand, but I cannot say whether he set it to be a boundary mark against the Asinaeans in Argolis, since in no land, which has been depopulated, is it easy to discover the truth about the boundaries. On the Top of the mountain there is a sanctuary of Artemis Coryphaea (of the Peak), of which TelesillaA famous lyri
Melissa (Italy) (search for this): book 2, chapter 28
Corinth (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 28
Argos (Greece) (search for this): book 2, chapter 28
600 BC (search for this): book 2, chapter 28