Machaon

American  

[muh-key-on] / məˈkeɪ ɒn /

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

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

From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Pogany, Willy

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 Cowper, William

Ascend thy chariot, and Machaon placed Beside thee, bear him, instant to the fleet.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

When Menelaus was wounded, a messenger was sent for Machaon, who extracted the barbed arrow, sucked the wound and applied a secret ointment made known to Æsculapius by Chiron the Centaur, according to tradition.

From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by Elliott, James Sands

Podalirius et Machaon, bello Trajano ducem Agamemnonem secuti, non mediocrem opem commilitonibus suis attulerunt.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois