That which [she who] removes pains.
Similarly glossed in
Photius, the
Lexica Segueriana, the Ambrosian Lexicon (according to Adler), Apollonius the Sophist, and a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 5.401 (where the neuter plural occurs). The headword is apparently quoted from some unknown source where it is used as feminine, to judge by the feminine gloss. The scholiast perhaps thinks that the second element of the compound is related to
φαίνω "reveal"; LSJ connect it rather with
θείνω "kill",
φόνος "murder".
cf.
omicron 56,
omicron 57.
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