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
ἕστᾰσαν: γ΄ πληθ. συγκεκομμ. ὑπερσ. τοῦ ἵστημι, Ὅμ.: ἀλλά, ΙΙ. ἔστᾰσαν, ἀντὶ ἔστησαν, γ΄ πληθ. ἀορ. α΄, ἔστησαν ἢ ἐτοποθέτησαν, Ἰλ. Β. 525, Ὀδ. Γ. 182, Σ. 307, πρβλ. ἰδίως Ἰλ. Μ. 55. 56.