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Μαχάων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μαχάων Μαχάονος

Structure: Μαχαων (Stem)

Etym.: Perh. akin to ma/xaira.

Sense

  1. Machaon

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐνδεικνύμενοσ οὖν καὶ τὴν εὐταξίαν ὡσ ὑγιεινὸν ἐστι καὶ εὔχρηστον καὶ κοινὸν τὸν σοφώτατον Νέστορα πεποίηκε Μαχάονι τῷ ἰατρῷ τετρωμένῳ τὸν δεξιὸν ὦμον προσφέροντα οἶνον, ταῖσ φλεγμοναῖσ ἐναντιώτατον ὄντα, καὶ τοῦτον Πράμνειον, ὃν ἴδμεν παχὺν καὶ πολύτροφον οὐ διψήσεωσ ἄκοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐμφορήσεωσ ἕνεκα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 172)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνοσ τῷ μὲν Μαχάονι μετ’ ἀλφίτου καὶ τυροῦ δέδωκε τὸν οἶνον, τὸν δ’ Ὀδυσσέα ποιεῖ συνάπτοντα τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν σιτίων καὶ οἴνου ὠφέλειαν ὃσ δὲ κ’ ἀνὴρ οἴνοιο κορεσσάμενοσ καὶ ἐδωδῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 17 3:1)
  • τί δὲ δὴ ὅταν Ὅμηροσ λέγῃ ὡσ τετρωμένῳ τῷ Μαχάονι Ἑκαμήδη ἡ Νέστοροσ παλλακὴ κυκεῶνα πίνειν δίδωσι; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 49:10)
  • ἤτοι μὲν τά γ’ ὄπισθε Μαχάονι πάντα ἐοίκε τῷ Ἀσκληπιάδῃ, ἀτὰρ οὐκ ἴδον ὄμματα φωτόσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 58:14)
  • ἐνταῦθα ἐν τῇ Γερηνίᾳ Μαχάονοσ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ μνῆμα καὶ ἱερόν ἐστιν ἅγιον, καὶ ἀνθρώποισ νόσων ἰάματα παρὰ τῷ Μαχάονι ἔστιν εὑρέσθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 17:1)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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