Machaonicus

Măchāon, ŏnis, m., = Machaôn, 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.