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I was reading Robert Graves's 'I, Claudius' and it talks about masters leaving sick slaves at the Temple of Aesculapius, which seems to be a real phenomena. Do we know any more about how that worked logistically? Did other temples perform these kind of extra service?

by /u/RuhigFliesstDerRhein in /r/AskHistorians

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