Podalirius

a son of /Msculapius and) Epione, was one of the, pupils of the Centaur Chiron, under whom he mace himself such a, master of medicine, that, during the Trojan war, the Greeks invited him to their camp, to. stop a pestilence which had baffled the skill of, all their physicians. At his return, he was. shipwrecked on the coast of Caria, where he, fixed his habitation, and built two towns, one of which he called Syrna, from the name of” his wife.