Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ὁ χρηστὸς φίλος – A true friend is grief's physician.
retract: P. ἀνατίθεσθαι, P. and V. ἐκβάλλειν; see retract.
unsay this curse: V. ἀπεύχου ταῦτα (Euripides, Hippolytus 891).