prop
From LSJ
λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος → for men reason cures grief, for men reason is a healer of grief, a physician for grief is to people a word, pain's healer is a word to man, logos is a healer of man's anguish, talking through one's grief is therapeutic
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
prop for a vine: Ar. and P. χάραξ, ὁ or ἡ.
generally: P. and V. ἔρεισμα, τό (Plato).
Met., support, stay: V. ἔρεισμα, τό, στῦλος, ὁ; see bulwark.
verb transitive
lean: P. and V. κλίνειν, V. ἐρείδειν (also Plato but rare P.).
support: V. ἐρείδειν; see support.
