A.talk, chat, prattle, “ἕπου καὶ μὴ λάλει” Ar.Ec.1058, cf. V.1135; “ἡ μὲν χελιδὼν τὸ θέρος . . λαλεῖ” Philem.208; “λαλεῖς . . ἀμελήσας ἀποκρίνασθαι” Pl.Euthd.287d: c. dat., talk to one, “λαλῶν ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς σεαυτῷ” Ar.Eq.348; “αὑτοῖς” Philem.11; “πρὸς αὑτούς” Alex.9.10; “λ. περί τινος” Pherecr.2, Ar.Lys.627; “ὑπέρ τινος” Posidipp.26.3; opp. λέγω, λαλεῖν “ἄριστος, ἀδυνατώτατος λέγειν” Eup.95; λαλῶν μὲν . . , λέγων δέ . . D.21.118 (s.v.l.); “λαλεῖν τι ἡμῖν ὅπως ἂν ἡμᾶς ὕπνος λάβῃ” Thphr.Char.7.10: hence,
b. generally, talk, speak, S.Ph.110 (v.l.for λακεῖν）“; καινὴν διάλεκτον λ.” Antiph.171; “Ἀττικιστὶ λ.” Alex.195.4. c. metaph., ζωγραφία λαλοῦσα (of poetry), opp. ποίησις σιωπῶσα (of painting), Simon. ap.Plu.2.346f.
2. talk of, τινα Alciphr.Fr.5.2; “ἀλλήλαις λαλέουσι τεὸν γάμον αἱ κυπάρισσοι” Theoc.27.58; “ἅμαξαν” Stoic.2.92:—Pass., “πρᾶγμα κατ᾽ ἀγορὰν λαλούμενον” Ar.Th.578.
3. in later writers, = λέγω, speak, “λαλεῖ οὐθὲν τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων πλὴν ἀνθρώπου” Arist.Pr.899a1: freq. in LXX, Ge.12.4, al.; “βασιλέως ἐναντίον” Ezek.Exag.118; “πρός τινα” Act.Ap.3.22, cf. Luc.Vit.Auct.3, etc.; “περὶ τῆς λέξεως” Phld.Po.5.32, cf. Rh.1.189 S., al.; χειρσὶν ἅπαντα λαλήσας, of a pantomime, IG14.2124: abs., “εἴ τι μὴ λίθος, τοὔργον, ἐρεῖς, λαλήσει” Herod.4.33, cf. 6.61; “ἐλάλησεν ὁ κωφός” Ev.Matt.9.33:—Pass., λαληθήσεταί σοι ὅ τι σε δεῖ ποιεῖν it shall be told thee . . , Act.Ap.9.6.
II. chatter, opp. articulate speech, as of locusts, chirp, Theoc.5.34; μεσημβρίας λαλεῖν τέττιξ (sc. εἰμί), a very grasshopper to chirp at midday, Aristopho 10.6; “ἀνθρωπίνως λ.” Strato Com.1.46.
