Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
P. and V. καθαρμός, ὁ, λύσις, ἡ, P. κάθαρσις, ἡ; see Plato, Cratylus 405A and B.
versed in purification: V. ἀπομαγμάτων ἴδρις (Soph., Fragment).
water for purification: P. and V. χέρνιψ, ἡ, or pl.
