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.
