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Machaon

[ muh-key-on ]

/ məˈkeɪ ɒn /

noun (in the Iliad)

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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Examples from the Web for machaon

Talthybius did as he was told, and went about the host trying to find Machaon.
The Iliad|Homer
Nestor, taking Machaon in his chariot, conveyed him from the field.
The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)|Charles Mills Gayley
Thus the word is not a vague epithet: the words simply mean, that the manful exertions of Machaon were arrested.
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3|W. E. Gladstone
Philoctetes was cured of his wound by Machaon, and Paris was the first victim of the fatal arrows.
The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)|Charles Mills Gayley

So loud was the cry that it roused old Nestor where he sat in his tent, tending the wounded Machaon.
Stories of the Old world|Alfred John Church

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