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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 4079578, member: 15481&quot;]This one is from Trebonianus Gallus:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1064244[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As for Apollo as a healer, this is from Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Healer and god-protector from evil</b></font></p><p>The function of Apollo as a &quot;healer&quot; is connected with <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean_(god)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paean_(god)" rel="nofollow">Paean</a> (Παιών-Παιήων), the physician of the Gods in the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad" rel="nofollow">Iliad</a>, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-54" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-54" rel="nofollow">[53]</a> Paeοn is probably connected with the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greece" rel="nofollow">Mycenaean</a> pa-ja-wo-ne (Linear B: ),<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-55" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-55" rel="nofollow">[54]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-56" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-56" rel="nofollow">[55]</a><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-Chawick-57" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-Chawick-57" rel="nofollow">[56]</a> but this is not certain. He did not have a separate cult, but he was the personification of the holy magic-song sung by the magicians that was supposed to cure disease. Later the Greeks knew the original meaning of the relevant song &quot;paean&quot; (παιάν). The magicians were also called &quot;seer-doctors&quot; (ἰατρομάντεις), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-58" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-58" rel="nofollow">[57]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic" rel="nofollow">Vedic</a> god of disease <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudra" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudra" rel="nofollow">Rudra</a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-Martin_Nilsson_1967_p._541-59" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-Martin_Nilsson_1967_p._541-59" rel="nofollow">[58]</a> He sends a plague (λοιμός) to the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans_(Homer)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans_(Homer)" rel="nofollow">Achaeans</a>. The god who sends a disease can also prevent it; therefore, when it stops, they make a purifying ceremony and offer him a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecatomb" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecatomb" rel="nofollow">hecatomb</a> to ward off evil. When the oath of his priest appeases, they pray and with a song they call their own god, the Paean.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-60" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-60" rel="nofollow">[59]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Some common epithets of Apollo as a healer are &quot;paion&quot; (παιών literally &quot;healer&quot; or &quot;helper&quot;)<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-61" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-61" rel="nofollow">[60]</a> &quot;epikourios&quot; (ἐπικούριος, &quot;succouring&quot;), &quot;oulios&quot; (οὔλιος, &quot;healer, baleful&quot;)<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-62" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-62" rel="nofollow">[61]</a> and &quot;loimios&quot; (λοίμιος, &quot;of the plague&quot;). In classical times, his strong function in popular religion was to keep away evil, and was therefore called &quot;apotropaios&quot; (ἀποτρόπαιος, &quot;averting evil&quot;) and &quot;alexikakos&quot; (ἀλεξίκακος &quot;keeping off ill&quot;; from <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb" rel="nofollow">v.</a> ἀλέξω + <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun" rel="nofollow">n.</a> κακόν).<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-63" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-63" rel="nofollow">[62]</a> In later writers, the word, usually spelled &quot;Paean&quot;, becomes a mere epithet of Apollo in his capacity as a god of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing" rel="nofollow">healing</a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-64" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-64" rel="nofollow">[63]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Homer illustrated Paeon the god, and the song both of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic" rel="nofollow">apotropaic</a> thanksgiving or triumph.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-65" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#cite_note-65" rel="nofollow">[64]</a> Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods: to <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus" rel="nofollow">Dionysus</a>, to Apollo <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios" rel="nofollow">Helios</a>, to Apollo&#039;s son <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepius" rel="nofollow">Asclepius</a> the healer. About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered. It was in this way that Apollo had become recognised as the god of music. Apollo&#039;s role as the slayer of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Python</a> led to his association with battle and victory; hence it became the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome" rel="nofollow">Roman</a> custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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