whose shrine was in Epidaurus. Ogulnius Gallus was said to have brought the god on his ship in the form of a snake. In Rome, the snake has swum from the ship to the Tiber Island, where a sanctuary was then built for Asclepius and thus the plague ended.

In 273 BC, he participated in the embassy led by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges to the Egyptian king Ptolemy II, with which Rome