κεράστης

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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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Transliteration A: kerástēs Transliteration B: kerastēs Transliteration C: kerastis Beta Code: kera/sths

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ,

   A horned, ἔλαφος S.El.568; κάνθαρος Id.Ichn.300; of a ram, ὦ κεράστα E.Cyc.52 (lyr.); Πάν Antip.Oxy.662.49, Corn. ND27; Σάτυροι Luc.Bacch.1:—fem. κεραστίς, ίδος, of Io, A.Pr. 674.    II as Subst., horned serpent or asp, Cerastes cornutus, Nic. Th.258, LXX Pr.23.32, D.S.3.50, Ael.NA1.57; οἱ κ. ὄφεις Call.Hist. 3.    2 pest which destroys fig-trees, Thphr.HP4.14.5, 5.4.5.