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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.


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Example Sentences

Thus the word is not a vague epithet: the words simply mean, that the manful exertions of Machaon were arrested.

In the pupa of Papilio Machaon there is one such channel between the third and fourth segments.

But soon Paris wounded with an arrow another brave chieftain, even the physician Machaon.

So loud was the cry that it roused old Nestor where he sat in his tent, tending the wounded Machaon.

And those who were around Machaon were fearful that the Trojans would seize the stricken man and bear him away.

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