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[401] 401-2 = 900-1, q.v. Παιήων is only mentioned again by Homer in 899 and Od. 4.232, where he is the progenitor of the race of physicians; see Solon fr. 13. 57, and Pindar P. iv. 270 “ἐσσὶ δ᾽ ἰατὴρ ἐπικαιρότατος, Παιὰν δέ σοι τιμᾶι φάος”. He is apparently not identical with Apollo, who in Homer has no healing function (cf., however, 16.514-29). So schol. on Od. 4.232, “διαφέρει ὁ Παιήων Ἀπόλλωνος ὡς καὶ Ἡσίοδος μαρτυρεῖ, “εἰ μὴ Ἀπολλὼν Φοῖβος ὑπὲκ θανάτοιο σαώσαι, ἢ καὶ Παιήων, ὃς ἁπάντων φάρμακα οἶδεν”.”

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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