Podalirius

, a son of Æsculapius and Epione. He was one of the pupils of the Centaur Chiron, and he made himself under him 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. Some, however, suppose that he went to the Trojan war not in the capacity of a physician in the Grecian army, but as a warrior, attended by his brother Machaon, in 30 ships, with soldiers from Œchalia, It home, and Trica. At his return from the Trojan war, Podalirius was shipwrecked on the coast of Caria, where he ♦ was cured of the falling sickne and married a daughter of Damœtas the king of the place. He fixed his habitation there, and built two towns, one of which he called Syrna, by the name of his wife. The Carians, after his death, built him a temple, and paid him divine honours. Dictys Cretensis. — Quintus Smyrnæus , bks. 6 & 9.— Ovid de Ars Am at or i a , bk. 2 ; Tristia , poem 6.— Pausanias , bk. 3 .――A Rutulian engaged in the wars of Æneas and Turnus. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 12 , li. 304 . ♦ omitted word ‘was’ inserted