δρυοκολάπτης
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)
ου, ὁ,
A woodpecker, of which Arist. distinguishes four species, the great black, Picus martius, the green, Picus viridis, and the spotted (both greater and less). Picus major and minor, HA593a5, cf. 614b7, Str.5.4.2; = Lat. picus, D.H.1.14:—also δρυκολάπτης, Ar.Av.480,979; δρῠοκόλαψ, Hsch.
A s.v. ἵπτα (prob. l.); δρῠοκόπος, Arist.PA662b7.
German (Pape)
[Seite 669] ὁ, Baumhacker, Specht; Arist. H. A. 8, 3; Strab. 5, 4, 2, wo Cas. δρυκολάπτης hat, s. d. W.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
δρυοκολάπτης: -ου, ὁ, «ξυλοφαγᾶς», οὗ ὁ Ἀριστ. τρία εἴδη διακρίνει (Picus viridis, P. major καί minor), Ἱ. Ζ. 8. 3, 7, πρβλ. 9. 9, 1·- ὡσαύτως δρυκολάπτης, Ἀριστοφ. Ὄρν. 480, 979, Στράβ.· παρ’ Ἡσυχ. δρυοκόλαψ· καὶ δρυοκόπος ἐν Ἀριστ. Ζ. Μ. 3. 1, 15.
