tum legati, perinde atque exoptatae rei compotes expleta gratiarum actione, cultuque anguis a peritis excepto, laeti inde solverunt, ac prosperam emensi navigationem postquam Antium appulerunt, anguis, qui ubique in navigio remanserat, prolapsus in vestibulo aedis Aesculapii myrto frequentibus ramis diffusae superimminentem excelsae altitudinis palmam circumdedit, perque tres dies, positis quibus vesci solebat, non sine magno metu legatorum ne inde in triremem reverti nollet, Antiensis templi hospitio usus, urbi se nostrae advehendum restituit, atque in ripam Tiberis egressis legatis in insulam, ubi templum dicatum est, tranavit adventuque suo tempestatem, cui remedio quaesitus erat, dispulit.
The envoys, as though with their mission accomplished, gave thanks and that done, after receiving instruction in the cult of the snake from those qualified, joyously weighed anchor from that place. A fair voyage brought them to Antium. The snake, which had remained on board throughout, now glided forth and wound himself around a lofty palm tree that towered over many-branching myrtle in the vestibule of Aesculapius temple. For three days he availed himself of the hospitality of the temple at Antium, food such as he was accustomed to eat being placed before him, not without much concern on the part of the envoys lest he be unwilling to return to the trireme. But he gave himself back for transport to our city and, after the envoys had disembarked on Tiber bank, he swam over to the island on which his temple was dedicated and by his arrival dissipated the plague which he had been sought to remedy.
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