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

MACHERUS, in Ancient Geography, a citadel on the other side of Jordan, near the mountains of Moab, not far from and to the north of the Lake Asphaltites. It was the south boundary of the Persea, and situated on a mountain encompassed round with deep and broad valleys, being built by Alexander king of the Jews. It was destroyed by Gabinius in the war with Aristobulus, and rebuilt by Herod, with a town of the same name around it. Here John the Baptist was beheaded.