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What does Machaon mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) A healer and a son of Asclepius and Epione.
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Talthybius did as he was told, and went about the host trying to find Machaon.
When Nestor and Machaon had reached the tents of the son of Neleus, they dismounted, and an esquire, Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot.
We here learn that in the heroic genealogy of the Asklepiads, the son of Machaon himself bore the name of Nikomachus.
Machaon was surgeon to Menelaus and Podalarius was the pioneer of phlebotomy.
So saying, he roused Machaon, who his course Through the wide host began.
His family claimed descent from Machaon, the son of Esculapius.

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