Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος – For men reason is a healer of grief – Für Menschen ist der Trauer Arzt allein das Wort – Maeroris unica medicina oratio.
per-sterno: strāvi, strātum, 3, v. a.,
I to pave all over, to make quite even or level: viam, Liv 10, 47, 4; Vitr. 7, 1, 7.