I'm immersed in a project for work that has me thinking a lot about Hercules. Above: an ancient armband with a Herakles knot, said to have healing powers. Here's Pliny the Elder's sage advice:
To tie up wounds with the Hercules knot makes the healing wonderfully more rapid, and even to tie daily the girdle with this knot is said to have a certain usefulness, for Demetrius wrote a treatise in which he states that the number four is one of the prerogatives of Hercules, giving reasons why four cyathi or sextarii at a time should not be drunk.
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