panaces

1.

pănăcēa, ae, f., pănăces, is, n., also pănax, ăcis, m., = panakeia, panakes, panax.

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, ae, f., a city in Crete, Mela, 2, 7.