The corpus record — Latin

Machaon

Machaon · m

son of Æsculapius, a famous surgeon of the Greeks

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Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

Măchāon, ŏnis, m., = *maxa/wn,

I son of Æsculapius, a famous surgeon of the Greeks before Troy, Cels. praef.; Prop. 2, 1, 61; Verg. A. 2, 263; Ov. P. 3, 4, 7 al.—

II Transf., in plur., surgeons, physicians: quid tibi cum medicis? dimitte Machaonas omnes, Mart. 2, 16, 5.—Hence,

A Ma-chāŏnĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Machaon: ars, i. e. the art of surgery, Sid. Ep. 2, 12.—

B Măchāŏnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Machaon, Machaonian, surgical: Machaoniā ope sanus, Ov. R. Am. 546: sucus, Stat. S. 1, 4, 114.

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