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ἐρεσ-χηλέω (freq. with v.l. ἐρεσ-χελέω ), used only in pres.,
A.talk lightly, to be jocular, “παίζειν καὶ ἐ.” Pl.R.545e, cf. Lg.885c, Luc.DMort.16.3, etc.: c. inf., discuss jocularly whether.., Philostr.VA2.14.
II. trans., quiz, banter, τινα Pl.Phdr.236b; τι Ath.6.223e, etc.; tease, worry, Ael.NA3.37, 15.22, Luc.Musc.Enc.10: c. dat. pers., “ὁ λόγος ἐ. νῷν” Pl.Phlb.53e.
2. c. acc. cogn., προφάσεις, πολέμου ἀφορμάς ἐ., find trifling excuses or occasions, App.Pun.74, Mith.64 ; cf. ἐρίσχηλος.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Plato, Laws, 885c
    • Plato, Republic, 545e
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 236b
    • Plato, Philebus, 53e
    • Lucian, Muscae Encomium, 10
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 16.3
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 15.22
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 3.37
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 2.14
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