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γέλοιος

γέλοιος, causing laughter, laughable

γέλοιος or γελοῖος, α, ον,
  • mirth-provoking, amusing, once in Hom., Il. 2.215 (in Ep. form γελοίϊος) ; χρῆμα Archil. 79, cf. Hdt. 8.25; Αἰσώπου τι γ. Ar. V. 566, cf. 1259; γελοῖα jests, Thgn. 311; γέλοια λέγειν Anaxandr. 10, Alex. 183; opp. σπουδαῖος, X. Cyr. 2.3.1, Pl. Lg. 816d; τοῦ ἀληθοῦς ἕνεκα, οὐ τοῦ γ. Id. Smp. 215a; τὸ γ. the comic, Arist. Po. 1449a34, al.; τὰ γ. ἡδέα Id. Rh. 1371b35; of persons, facetious, μισῶ γελοίους E. Fr. 492; ἡδὺς καὶ γ. Aeschin. 1.126; γ. ἐστι καὶ βούλεται Pl. Smp. 213c. Adv. -οίως Id. Cri. 53d.
    • II ludicrous, absurd, Ζεὺς γ. ὀμνύμενος τοῖς εἰδόσιν Ar. Nu. 1241; γ. ἔσομαι αὐτοσχεδιάζων Pl. Phdr. 236d; γ. ἰατρός, διδάσκαλος, Id. Prt. 340c, R. 392d; ἐπὶ τὸ -ότερον ὅμοιος a caricature, Arist. Top. 117b17, cf. Po. 1449a36; of arguments, etc., paradoxical, Pl. Prt. 355a, Tht. 158e, etc. Adv. -οίως, ἔχειν Id. R. 528d, cf. Arist. Mete. 362b12.—In Smp. 189b, Pl. confines γ. to signf. 1, γ. εἰπεῖν ἀλλὰ μὴ καταγέλαστα. (Att. γέλοιος A.D. Pron. 50.5, but γελοῖος Ael.Dion. Fr. 101, and so cod. R in Ar. Ach. 1058, Nu. 1241. Some Gramm. expl. γέλοιος, = γέλωτος ἄξιος, γελοῖος, = γελωτοποιός, Ammon. p.38V., EM 224.43; others reversely, Et.Gud., etc.: Suid. gives both views. Phlp. ap. Eust. 906.53 wrote γελοιός, = γελωτοποιός.)

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