He is mending, and the greatest of thy ministers, O Asklepios, says he will recover, so it must be true.

Yet without thee even the skill of Galenus is of little avail; wherefore I beseech you both, Heal Diodoros, whom I love!--But I would fain entreat you for another.

You will wonder, perhaps--for it is Bassianus Antoninus, whom they call Caracalla and Caesar.
"Thou, Asklepios, dost look in amazement, and great Hygeia shakes her head.

And it is hard to say what moves me, who love another, to pray for the blood-stained murderer for whom not another soul in his empire would say a word to you.

Nay, and I know not what it is.