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λα^λ-ιά , poet. λα^λ-ιή , ἡ,
A.talk, chat, λαλιὰν ἀσκῆσαι, ἐπιτηδεῦσαι, Ar.Nu.931 (anap.), Ra.1069; “πέρας ποιεῖ λαλιᾶς” Men.66.3, cf. Hermesian. 7.78, AP7.440 (Leon.); common talk, report, Plb.3.20.5; “τῆς εὐανδρίας τινός” LXX 2 Ma.8.7; “ἀχέων” APl.4.134 (Mel.); “λαλιάν τινα ποιεῖν” LXX Si.42.11; in good sense, discussion, “ἡ περὶ βυβλίων λ.” Plb. 31.23.4, cf. 36.12.3; speech, conversation, Ev.Jo.8.43; matter, subject, LXX Ec.3.18.
2. loquacity, Aeschin.2.49, Thphr.Char.7, Arist. Phgn.806b18, Men.Sam.46.
II. a form of speech, dialect, Ev.Matt. 26.73; “ἡ λ. σου ὡραία” LXX Ca.4.3; style, Phld.Rh.2.27 S.
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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