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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).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 March 2009@07:40:52.
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Headword:
*niko/maxos
Adler number: nu,399
Translated headword: Nikomachos, Nicomachus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A doctor, and himself [sc. also] from Stageira;[1] son of
Machaon[2] the son of Asclepius;[3] [the man] from whom was descended
Nicomachus the father of
Aristotle the philosopher, himself also a doctor. He wrote 6 volumes on medicine and 1 on physics.[4]
*niko/maxos, i)atro/s, kai\ au)to\s *stageiri/ths, *maxa/onos tou= *)asklhpiou= ui(o/s: e)c ou(= kath/geto *niko/maxos, o( path\r *)aristote/lous tou= filoso/fou, kai\ au)to\s i)atro/s. e)/grayen i)atrikw=n bibli/a #2#, kai\ fusikw=n a#.
Notes:
See already, in brief, under
alpha 3929.
[1] A cross-reference back to
nu 398.
[2] See
mu 300, and generally OCD(4) s.v.
[3] No Suda entry, but see generally OCD(4) s.v.
[4] This final sentence displays confusion with
nu 398.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 October 2005@05:13:03.
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Headword:
*podalei/rios
Adler number: pi,1840
Translated headword: Podaleirios, Podalirius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
Greek Original:*podalei/rios: o)/noma ku/rion.
Note:
He and his brother
Machaon (
mu 300), sons of Asklepios, were amongst the unsuccessful suitors of Helen; he later fought at
Troy, cured Philoctetes, etc.: see Perseus Encyclopedia at web address 1.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; gender and sexuality; medicine; military affairs; mythology; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 October 2002@07:39:38.
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