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Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.

Horace, Epistles 1.34

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verb intransitive

P. κορυζᾶν (Plato).

talk nonsense: P. and V. ληρεῖν, Ar. and P. φλυαρεῖν (also Ar.).

substantive

Ar. and P. λῆρος, ὁ, φλυαρία, ἡ, P. ληρήματα, τά; see nonsense.