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γέλοιος or γελοῖσς , α, ον,
A.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., EM224.43; others reversely, Et.Gud., etc.: Suid. gives both views. Phlp. ap. Eust. 906.53 wrote γελοιός, = γελωτοποιός.)
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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