Machaon

//məˈkeɪ.ən// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A healer and a son of Asclepius and Epione. Greek

Example

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"With joy from out the hollow wood they bound; / first, dire Ulysses, with his captains two, / Thessander bold and Sthenelus renowned, / down by a pendent rope come sliding to the ground. / Then Thoas comes; and Acamas, athirst / for blood; and Neoptolemus, the heir / of mighty Peleus; and Machaon first; / and Menelaus; and himself is there, / Epeus, framer of the fatal snare."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μαχάων (Makháōn).

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