🏛️ Hymn 66 - ESCULAPIUS [ASKLEPIOS]

Great Esculapius [Asklepios], skill'd to heal mankind, all-ruling Pæan, and physician kind; Whose arts medic'nal, can alone assuage diseases dire, and stop their dreadful rage:

Strong lenient God, regard my suppliant pray'r, bring gentle Health, adorn'd with lovely hair; Convey the means of mitigating pain, and raging, deadly pestilence restrain.

O pow'r all-flourishing, abundant, bright, Apollo's honor'd offspring, God of light; Husband of blameless Health [Hygeia], the constant foe of dread Disease the minister of woe:

Come, blessed saviour, and my health defend, and to my life afford a prosp'rous end.