electarium

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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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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ēlectārĭum: (also ēlectuārium), ii, n. ecligma,
I a medicament that melts in the mouth, an electuary, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 13; 169, 176 al.; cf. Isid. Orig. 4, 9, 10.