Machaon
Americannoun
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Nestor sent word that Ulysses, Agamemnon, Diomed, Machaon, and Eurypylus were wounded; perhaps these tidings would induce Achilles to forget his grievances, and once more go forth to battle.
From National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb
One after another the Greek leaders were wounded, Diomedes, Odysseus, Machaon; Ajax alone held up the Trojan onset, retiring slowly and stubbornly towards the sea.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
His family claimed descent from Machaon, the son of Esculapius.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Now when Neleian Nestor to his tent Had brought Machaon, they alighted both, And the old hero's friend Eurymedon Released the coursers.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
In the meantime the Neleian steeds, sweating, bore Nestor from the battle, and conveyed Machaon, the shepherd of the people.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
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