I.son of Æsculapius, 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.