英语词汇“a cock to aesculapius”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. a cock to Aesculapius and variants: something offered in thanks or gratitude, or as a sign of allegiance.With allusion to Socrates's last words, as related by Plato, in which he asked his friend Crito to offer a cockerel or rooster to Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine (see quot. 1542). Aesculapius is the Roman form of the god's name.

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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f.30^v Crito..we bee now endebted to y^e God Aesculapius of a cocke, whiche duely to paye, in no wise bee ye negligente.]

1677 T. Sherley tr. T. T. de Mayerne Medicinal Councels vii. 64 The great and good God, the Author of health, perform your desires, to whom be praise; and let there be dedicated to your self Æsculapius his Cock, the Hieroglyphick of Vigilance.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxi. 216 I would..sacrifice a cock to Æsculapius, were I assured that any person had been taken up for extirpating such a troublesome Goth as you are from the face of the earth.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. iv. 220 Bodin in this sophistry was undoubtedly insincere. He goes on, however, having purposely sacrificed this cock to Æsculapius, to contend that, if several religions exist in a state, the prince should avoid violence and persecution.

1979 W. B. Ober Boswell's Clap (1988) p. xii In may ways this collection is a cock to Aesculapius, offered in oblation to a profession that has been kind to me.

单词	a cock to aesculapius
释义	> as lemmas a cock to Aesculapius b. a cock to Aesculapius and variants: something offered in thanks or gratitude, or as a sign of allegiance.With allusion to Socrates's last words, as related by Plato, in which he asked his friend Crito to offer a cockerel or rooster to Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine (see quot. 1542). Aesculapius is the Roman form of the god's name. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f.30^v Crito..we bee now endebted to y^e God Aesculapius of a cocke, whiche duely to paye, in no wise bee ye negligente.] 1677 T. Sherley tr. T. T. de Mayerne Medicinal Councels vii. 64 The great and good God, the Author of health, perform your desires, to whom be praise; and let there be dedicated to your self Æsculapius his Cock, the Hieroglyphick of Vigilance. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxi. 216 I would..sacrifice a cock to Æsculapius, were I assured that any person had been taken up for extirpating such a troublesome Goth as you are from the face of the earth. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. iv. 220 Bodin in this sophistry was undoubtedly insincere. He goes on, however, having purposely sacrificed this cock to Æsculapius, to contend that, if several religions exist in a state, the prince should avoid violence and persecution. 1979 W. B. Ober Boswell's Clap (1988) p. xii In may ways this collection is a cock to Aesculapius, offered in oblation to a profession that has been kind to me. extracted from cockn.¹int. < as lemmas
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