The worship of aesculapius was introduced at Rome from Epidaurus in B.C. 293, and the oracle of Delphi had been consulted by the Romans in still earlier times.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
She presented to it the site for a shrine close to the Appian Way, a marble statue of aesculapius, and a hall opening on a terrace, where the banquets of the brotherhood should be held.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Her bequest to the college of aesculapius reveals how deep in the soul of a charitable pagan woman, who was probably sprung from servile stock, lay that aristocratic instinct of the Roman world which survived the advent of the Divine Peasant and the preaching of the fishermen of Galilee, for far more than four hundred years.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill