Πανάκεια

panacea; Panakeia, Panacea

Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝25 Aug 2003Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 9 words

Translation

[Meaning a] remedy/treatment.1
Also a name of a goddess.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πανάκεια· θεραπεία. καὶ ὄνομα θεᾶς.

Betacode
*pana/keia: qerapei/a. kai\ o)/noma qea=s. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1Likewise in other lexica; references at Photius pi124 Theodoridis. See generally LSJ s.v., I, including instances where, concretely, it refers to a particular medicinal herb. ↩
  2. 2So e.g. in Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 702 and 730. Daughter of Asklepios, honored by part of an altar at Oropos, according to Pausanias 1.34.3 (web address 1). ↩

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Revision history6 revisions · last 29 Jan 2016
  1. modified link — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. expanded notes; more keywords — David Whitehead
  4. added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. added note — Catharine Roth
  6. added note, link, and keyword — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝

Cite this entry

“panacea; Panakeia, Panacea.” Suda On Line. Tr. Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝. 25 August 2003. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/pi/153>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/pi/153>.

Translation by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝ for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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