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πα^ν-α^κής , ές, (ἄκος)
A.all-healing, “π. πάντων φάρμακον ἁ σοφία” Call.Epigr.47.4, cf. Ph.1.455 (Sup.); “ποτάμιον π. πρὸς τὰς τῶν θρεμμάτων νόσους” Str.6.3.9; “λύπης πανακές” Epicur.Fr. 154.
II. πάνακες, ους, τό, all-heal, Ferulago galbanifera, Hp.Mul. 2.201, Thphr.HP9.7.2, etc.; π. Ἀσκληπίειον Aesculapius' all-heal, Echinophora tenuifolia, ib.9.8.7, 9.11.1; π. Ἡράκλειον, = πανάκεια 1.2a, ib.9.11.3, Dsc.3.48; π. Κενταύρειον Centaury, Centaurea salonitana, Plin.HN25.33, Sch.Nic.Th.564; π. λεπτόφυλλον feverfew, Erythraea Centaurium, Thphr.HP9.11.4; π. Χειρώνειον elecampane, Inula Helenium, ib.9.11.1; also, = Chiron's all-heal, Hypericum olympicum, Nic. Th.565 (cf. 500), Dsc.3.50, Gal.12.95.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Strabo, Geography, 6.3.9
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