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

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

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

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

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

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

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