a celebrated physician among the ancients, son of Aesculapius and brother to Podalirius. He went to the Trojan war with the inhabitants of Trica, Ithome, and Oechalia. According to some, he was king of Messenia. He was physician to the Greeks, and healed the wounds which they received during the Trojan war. Some suppose he was killed before Troy by Eurypylus the son of Telephus. He received divine honours after death, and had a temple in Messenia.

MACHÆRUS, in Ancient Geography, a citadel on the other side Jordan, near the mountains of Moab, not far from and to the north of the Lacus Alphaliites. It was the south boundary of the Peræa; situated on a mountain encompassed round with deep and broad valleys; built by Alexander king of the Jews; destroyed by Gabinius, in the war with Aristobulus, and rebuilt by Herod, with a cognominal town round it. Here John the Baptist was beheaded (Josephus).