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. |