Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
purifying: P. and V. καθαρμός, ὁ, λύσις, ἡ, P. κάθαρσις, ἡ.
in medical sense: P. κάθαρσις, ἡ.