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Headword:
*maxa/onos.
*maxa/wn
Adler number: mu,300
Translated headword: Machaon's, of Machaon; Machaon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a doctor;[1] also [i.e. so too is] Cheiron, the centaur.[2] "They were whispering to themselves, those practised in the skills of Machaon and Cheiron, that with the exit of the weapon his soul too would pass away".[3]
Greek Original:*maxa/onos. *maxa/wn, o)/noma i)atrou=: kai\ *xei/rwn, o( ke/ntauros. dieyiqu/rizon de\ w(s e(autou\s oi( *xei/rwnos kai\ *maxa/onos texnw/menoi meleth/mata, w(s sunekdhmh/sei au)tw=| kai\ h( yuxh\ th=| tou= be/lous e)co/dw|.
Notes:
The first of these twin headwords is the genitive case of the name, presumably extracted from the quotation given; the second is the nominative.
[1] In
Homer's
Iliad.
[2] cf.
chi 267.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.6.5 (on a soldier with multiple wounds).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; mythology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 March 2009@07:40:52.
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