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.
părastas: ădis, f., = παραστάς,
I a four-cornered pillar or column, a pilaster, Vitr. 10, 15; cf. parastata.
părastăs, ădis, f. (παραστάς), pilastre, montant [dans une baliste, une catapulte] : Vitr. Arch. 10, 10, 2.