LOGOI

The corpus record

γέλοιος

geloios

mirth-provoking, amusing

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Where it lives

  • Ars Poetica 10 · 9.89/10k
  • Philebus 12 · 6.81/10k
  • Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
  • Theaetetus 13 · 5.78/10k
  • Symposium 5 · 5.25/10k
  • Symposium 9 · 5.16/10k
  • Phaedrus 7 · 4.21/10k
  • Machabaeorum IV 3 · 3.89/10k
  • Republic 34 · 3.83/10k
  • Hippias Major 3 · 3.55/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 17 · 3.02/10k
  • Rhetoric 13 · 3.02/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

mirth-provoking, amusing, jests, comic, facetious

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.

II ludicrous, absurd, caricature, paradoxical

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.

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Where it came from

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