ἀρρεπής
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)
ές, of a balance,
A inclining to neither side: hence, without weight or influence, ἀρρεπὲς πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν Plu.2.1070a, cf. 1015a; insignificant, Stoic.3.35; firm, unwavering, of ἰσότης, ib.159, Dam. Pr.283. Adv. -πῶς Ph.1.409, Hierocl.p.31 A.:—also ἀρρεν-πί, Hdn.Epim. 256.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀρρεπής: -ές, κυρίως ἐπὶ πλάστιγγος, ἡ πρὸς μηδέτερον μέρος ῥέπουσα· ἐντεῦθεν, ὁ μὴ ἔχων σημασίαν τινὰ ἢ βαρύτητα, ὁ μὴ συντελῶν εἴς τι, τὸ ἄποιον καὶ ἀργὸν ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀρρεπὲς Πλούτ. 1015Α· τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἀρρεπὲς ποιοῦσι καὶ ἀμαυρὸν ὁ αὐτ. 10628· ἀρρεπῆ πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν ὁ αὐτ. 2. 1070Α· σταθερός, ἀμετάβλητος, αδιάσειστος, γνώμῃ ἀνενδότῳ καὶ ἀρρεπεῖ Φίλων 2. 25. 34. ― Ἐπίρρ. ἀρρεπῶς Κλήμ. Ἀλ. 60· ― ὡσαύτως, ἀρρεπὶ Ἡρωδιαν. Ἐπιμερ. 256.
