Machaon
Americannoun
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Menelaus is wounded, and Agamemnon having consigned him to the care of Machaon, goes forth to perform the duties of commander-in-chief, in the encouragement of his host to battle.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
Philoctetes is healed by Machaon, fights in single combat with Alexandrus and kills him: the dead body is outraged by Menelaus, but the Trojans recover and bury it.
From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard) Evelyn-White
Revered and irascible 383 is he who sent me forth to inquire who this man is whom thou leadest wounded; but even I myself know, for I perceive Machaon, the shepherd of the people.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
Achilles, seeing the return of the wounded warrior Machaon, sent his friend Patroclus to find out who he was.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
In the fight, Agamemnon was wounded, and Diomed, Ulysses, and Machaon.
From National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb
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