πᾰν-άκεια (panakeia)

What it meant

πᾰν-άκεια · pan-akeia — LSJ

universal remedy, panacea

universal remedy, panacea, Longin. 38.5, Ph. 1.215, Gal. 13.766.

2 a healing herb, its juice, Hercules’ woundwort, Opopanax hispidus

name of a healing herb or its juice (cf. πανακής II), Call. Ap. 40, etc.; πανακείας ῥίζα Gal. 14.156; Hercules’ woundwort, Opopanax hispidus, Thphr. HP 9.15.7.

b Laserpitium garganicum

= λιγυστικόν, Laserpitium garganicum, Ps.-Dsc. 3.51.

c

= ἄρκιον, Id. 4.106.

3 six

Pythag. name for six, Theol. Ar. 38.

II

personified as daughter of Asclepius, Hp. Jusj. 1, Ar. Pl. 702, 730.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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