quorum tam promptam indulgentiam numen ipsius dei subsecutum verba mortalium caelesti obsequio comprobavit, si quidem is anguis, quem Epidaurii raro, sed numquam sine magno ipsorum bono visum in modum Aesculapii venerati fuerant, per urbis celeberrimas partes mitibus oculis et. leni tractu labi coepit, triduoque inter religiosam omnium admirationem conspectus, haud dubiam prae se appetitae clarioris sedis alacritatem ferens ad triremem Romanam perrexit, paventibusque inusitato spectaculo nautis eo conscendit ubi Q. Ogulnii legati tabernaculum erat, inque multiplicem orbem per summam quietem est convolutus.
The power of the god himself followed up their prompt indulgence, approving the words of mortals by celestial compliance. For the snake which the Epidaurians had venerated as Aesculapius, rarely seen and never except to their great benefit, began to glide through the most populous parts of the city, mild of eye and drawing gently along. For three days he was watched amid the religious wonderment of all, showing no uncertain eagerness for the more illustrious dwelling that he sought, and so made his way to the Roman trireme. The sailors were frightened by the novel spectacle, but he ascended where stood the tent of the envoy Q. Ogulnius and in perfect calm wound himself into a circle of many coils.
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