Rettulit dein de inmunitate Cois tribuenda, multaque super antiquitate eorum memoravit: Argivos vel Coeum Latonae parentem vetustissimos insulae cultores; mox adventu Aesculapii artem medendi inlatam maximeque inter posteros eius celebrem fuisse, nomina singulorum referens et quibus quisque aetatibus viguissent.
He next proposed to grant immunity to the inhabitants of Cos. Of their ancient history he had much to tell:'The earliest occupants of the island had, he said, been Argives'or, possibly, Coeus, the father of Latona. Then the arrival of Aesculapius had introduced the art of healing, which attained the highest celebrity among his descendants'here he gave the names of the descendants and the epochs at which they had all flourished.
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