442 ISLAND OF COS. 
These, with fragments of porphyry, breccia, and 
other materials of antient sculpture, lying about 
the modern town of Stanchio, and already alluded 
to \ are all that we noticed upon this occasion. 
Asci^nim. Of the reuowucd Asclepieum, mentioned by 
Straho ^ we could find no traces ; although it be 
reasonable to expect that the remains of such a 
building may be here discovered : it was situ- 
ate in a suburb of the antient city; not of 
Astypalea, the first metropolis of the people of 
Cos — for that city stood elsewhere' — but of 
Cos, a city built upon the point of Scander'ia, to 
the westivard; so that its suburbs probably occu- 
pied the situation of the modern town. Possibly 
the Mosque may now occupy the original site of 
the Asclepieum: near to it there was a grove, 
consecrated to ^sculapius\ One of the assas- 
sins of Julius C^sar, Puhlius TuruUms, Q. Roman 
senator, cut down almost all the trees for ship 
timber ; but afterwards, being delivered up by 
his friend Anthony to Augustus, he was put ta 
death. In the uncertainty which prevails with 
(1) See Vol. III. Chap. VII. p. 266. 
(2) 'ASKAHniEIOxV. Strabon. Geog. lib. xiv. p. 941. Oxon. 1807. 
(3) 'H Si TU1 Kaav viy.t; iKxXtTra to -rx/.atfy 'Ajrru'ra.Ka.nt, kx) iiKuro «» 
aXA.y Toyai. Ibid. P- 910. 
(4) Dio Casdtis, 
