Machaon, The sonne of Ecseulapius, an excellent Surgion.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Măchāon, ŏnis, m., = *maxa/wn, son of Æsculapius, a famous surgeon of the Greeksbefore 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.