Măchāon, ŏnis, m., = Μαχάων,
I son of Aesculapius, 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.