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
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P. ἀδυναμία, ἡ, μοχθηρία, ἡ, P. and V. φαυλότης, ἡ (Eur., Frag.).