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I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:
OpEdNews - Diary: The Tragedy of Health Care Reform in America 2009
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There are two very fine Canalettos, a curious Rubens painting of Hygieia clutching an ominous looking serpent, a superb Velásquez portrait, an exquisite Cranach, a room of Tiepolo drawings, and the largest collection of 16th-century Spanish portraits, many of them by Coello, outside of Spain.
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Hygieia_, while really independent poems, are so charged with Horatian matter and spirit that one hesitates to call them original.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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'I swear by Apollo the physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and
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Prati, who transmuted _Epode II_ into the _Song of Hygieia_; and
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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Bernardo Tasso's Ode, for example, and Giovanni Prati's Song of Hygieia, while really independent poems, are so charged with Horatian matter and spirit that one hesitates to call them original.
Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922
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Asklepios and Hygieia, by Nikeratos; Ares and Hermes, by Piston; and
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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I swear by Apollo the physician and AEsculapius and Health (Hygieia) and
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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Halliday? she who, until some two months before this time, might have been the divine Hygieia in person -- so fresh was her youthful bloom, so buoyant her step, so bright her glances.
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This he called prayer; but whether his adorations were addressed to the goddess Hygieia or some more orthodox deity, never plainly appeared.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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