Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

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and a stadium, which, as is customary among the Greeks, is formed
by a bank of earth.

There is also a fountain, which both for the roof, and its other or-
naments, deserves to be seen. Antoninus, a senator of our time,
erected the bath of iEsculapius, and a temple of the gods called
Epidotae. He also dedicated a temple to Hygeia, iEsculapius, and
the ^Egyptian Apollo. He repaired a portico called Cotyos, the roof
of which being only tiled, had fallen in, a distressing circumstance to
women who come there to be delivered. The building was after-
wards consecrated to the use of pregnant women and dying persons.
Above the grove are two mountains, one called Titthion, the other
Cynortium, on which is the temple of the Malean Apollo, which alone
remains of the original construction, for Antoninus erected for the
Epidaurians the other edifices surrounding that temple, as well as the
reservoir of the fountain where the rain water is collected. Pausanias,
Book 2, Chap. 27- Strabo says, that the temple of iEsculapius was

crowded with votive tablets, Book 8, Chap. 15.

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The present appearance of the sacred inclosure of iEsculapius may
be learned by consulting the design, and the map of the valley. There
seems to be no habitation in the valley, so that a traveller must lodge
either at Lykurio or Coroni.

The ruins on the left of the entrance of the peribolus, may have
been the portico called Cotyos, which must have been without the
wall. The Roman ruin of brick, consisting of a square building with

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