νουμήνιος
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 (LSJ)
ον, Att. contr. for νεομήνιος,
A used at the new moon, ἄρτοι Luc.Lex.6. II as Subst., perh. a kind of curlew : prov., ξυνῆλθεν ἀτταγᾶς τε καὶ ν. 'birds of a feather flock together', D.L.9.114.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
νουμήνιος: -ον, Ἀττ. συνηρ. ἀντὶ τοῦ νεομήνιος, ἐν χρήσει κατὰ τὴν νέαν σελήνην, ἄρτοι Λουκ. Λεξιφάν. 6. ΙΙ. ὡς οὐσιαστ., εἶδος πελαργοειδοῦς πτηνοῦ· - καθ’ Ἡσύχ.: «νουμήνιος· ὄρνεον ὅμοιον ἀτταγᾷ ὄν, ὁ καὶ τροχίλος»: παροιμ., ξυνῆλθεν ἀτταγᾶς τε καὶ ν., «ὅμοιος ’ς τὸν ὅμοιον», Διογ. Λ. 9. 114.
