Worries then weigh less on a man, and of thirty parts one is removed, when he blurts out his troubles to a friend, or a fellow-traveller, or even finally to the deaf gusts of wind.

κουφοτέρως τότε φῶτα διαθλίβουσιν ἀνῖαι,
ἐκ δὲ τριηκόντων μοῖραν ἀφεῖλε μίαν,
ἢ φίλον ἢ ὅτ᾿ ἐς ἄνδρα συνέμπορον ἢ ὅτε κωφαῖς
ἄλγεα μαψαύραις ἔσχατον ἐξερύγῃ.

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To explain Homer with Homer | Maxim attributed to Callimachus; see Ancient Scholarship and Grammar: Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts (2011) edited by Stephanos Matthaios, Franco Montanari, Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος, p. 108 (de Gruyter) // Not attributed to Callimachus by the cited source (or any other AFAIK); consensus is that the aphorism originates from an unidentified 5th century BC sophist: A. G. Lee, 'An Aristarchean Maxim?', PCPhS 21 (1975), 63–64; N. G. Wilson, 'Aristarchus or a Sophist?', PCPhS 22 (1976), 123. Not moving to a 'Misattributed' since it's not circulated as Callimachus'-->

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