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γαργα^λ-ίζω ,
A.tickle, titillate, Pl.Phlb.47a, Epicur.Fr.411; “αὐτὸς αὑτὸν οὐθεὶς γ.” Arist. Pr.965a11:—Pass., “γαργαλίζεσθαι μόνον ἄνθρωπον” Id.PA673a6, cf. EN1150b22: also, generally, feel tickling or irritation, Pl.Phdr.251c.
2. metaph., “τὰ τὰς αἰσθήσεις γαργαλίζοντα ἡδέα” Phld.Mus.p.33K., cf. Ph.2.352; “τὰ ὦτα γ.” Aristid.Or.34(50).16, cf. Luc.Cal.21; also of pain, “ὰλγηδὼν -ουσα” Plu.2.1088a:—Pass., “γαργαλιζομένου τοῦ σώματος” Plot.6.7.34.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Plato, Philebus, 47a
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 251c
    • Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, 21
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