Machaon

[ muh-key-on ]

noun

1. a son of Asclepius who was famed as a healer and who served as physician of the Greeks in the Trojan War.

Example Sentences

In Homer's Iliad, the healer Machaon, son of Asclepius, is also a warrior, a member of the heroic class.

From The Guardian

Son of Apollo and Coronis, 63, 64; Machaon, son of, 331; significance, 387.

From Project Gutenberg

This practice of suction, no doubt, was known in Greece; Machaon performed it at the siege of Troy.

From Project Gutenberg

Homer has illustrated the skill of Podalirius and Chiron; and Idomeneus bids Nestor to mount his chariot with Machaon, who alone was more precious than a thousand warriors; while we find Podalirius, wrecked and forlorn on the Carian coast, leading to the altar the daughter of the monarch whom he cured, and whose subjects raised a temple to his memory, and paid him divine honours.

From Project Gutenberg

The Arabian, whose ancient oracles are Avicenna, Rhazes, Albucazis; and its revivers are Chauliac and Lanfranc; and the Greek school, whose modern champions are Bessarion, Platinus, and Marsilius Ficinus, but whose pristine doctors were medicine's very oracles, Phœbus, Chiron, Æsculapius, and his sons Podalinus and Machaon, Pythagoras, Democritus, Praxagoras who invented the arteries, and Dioctes 'qui primus urinæ animum dedit.'

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