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ἀγελαστί

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγελαστί

Sense

  1. without laughter

Examples

  • ὅτι μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἀγελαστὶ διεξῄεισ αὐτὸ καὶ πάνυ μοι πρόδηλον. (Lucian, Apologia 1:2)
  • οὐδεὶσ γὰρ ἂν αὐτοῦ ἀγελαστὶ ἠνέσχετο κατὰ νοῦν ἔχων ταῦτα τὰ ἔπη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 13 3:1)
  • κωμῳδίασ φιλόγελωσ ὄντασ, ἀχρείουσ δὲ πρὸσ τὰ σπουδαιότερα τῶν πραγμάτων καταφυγεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖσ μαντεῖον ἀπαλλαγῆναι βουλομένουσ τοῦ πάθουσ, καὶ τὸν θεὸν ἀνελεῖν αὐτοῖσ, ἢν θύοντεσ τῷ Ποσειδῶνι ταῦρον ἀγελαστὶ τοῦτον ἐμβάλωσιν εἰσ τὴν θάλατταν, παύσεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 79 1:2)
  • ἀνάσχεσθον οὖν ἀγελαστὶ ἀκούοντεσ αὐτοί τε καὶ οἱ μαθηταὶ ὑμῶν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 76:5)
  • "ἢ καὶ τούτων οὖν ἀκουστέον ἀγελαστὶ λεγομένων, ἢ μηδ’ ἐκείνοισ εὐκόπωσ οὕτωσ διὰ τῶν ὀνομάτων ὥσπερ τριγχίων τὰ μὲν ἐκκόπτουσι μέρη τὰ δὲ καθαιροῦσι παραδύσεισ διδῶμεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 13:5)

Synonyms

  1. without laughter

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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