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panacea1

panacea1 · f

An herb to which was ascribed the power of healing all diseases

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Where it lives

Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. pănăcēa — Lewis & Short

pănăcēa, ae, f., pănăces, is, n., also pănax, ăcis, m., = pana/keia, panake/s, pa/nac.

I An herb to which was ascribed the power of healing all diseases, all-heal, panacea, catholicon; on the different kinds, v. Plin. 25, 4, 11, § 30 sq.: odorifera panacea, Verg. A. 12, 419: panaces ipso nomine omnium morborum remedia promittit, Plin. 25, 4, 11, § 30: panax levi et subactā terrā rarissime disseritur, Col. 11, 3, 29.—

II A plant, called also ligusticum silvestre: ligusticum silvestre panacem aliqui vocant, Plin. 19, 8, 50, § 165.—Form panaces, Plin. 20, 16, 60, § 168.—

III A plant: pastinaca opopinax.—Form panax, Plin. 12, 26, 57, § 127.

2 Personified: Pănăcēa, ae, f., one of the four daughters of Æsculapius, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 137.

2. Pănăcēa — Lewis & Short

Pănăcēa, ae, f.,

I a city in Crete, Mela, 2, 7.

In the wild

panaceam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.16.p1
Panacea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p8
panacea Lucan, Pharsalia 9.918
panaceam Vergil, Aeneid 12.419

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