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1 τέττιξ
A cicala, Cicada plebeia or allied species, a winged insect fond of basking on trees, when the male makes a chirping or clicking noise by means of certain drums or 'tymbals' underneath the wings, whence the joke in Xenarch.14, εἶτ'.. οἱ τέττιγες οὐκ εὐδαίμονες, ὧν ταῖς γυναιξὶν οὐδ' ὁτιοῦν φωνῆς ἔνι; prov.,τέττιγος ἐδράξω πτεροῦ Archil.143
(v.συλλαμβάνω 11.1
). This noise is freq. used as a simile for sweet sounds, Il.3.151, Hes.Op. 582, Sc. 393, Simon.173, 174, etc.; and Plato calls them οἱ Μουσῶν προφῆται, Phdr.262d; but they also became a prov. for garrulity, :τ. πολλοὶ γινόμενοι νοσῶδες τὸ ἔτος σημαίνουσι Thphr.Sign.54
. They were thought to sing continually without food or drink, Ar.Nu. 1360, Pl.Phdr. 259c; or on a diet of air and dew, Arist.HA 532b13, Theoc.4.16, AP6.120 (Leon.), Anacreont.32, Plu.2.660f. The Greeks ate τέττιγες to whet the appetite, Ath.4.133b, cf. Ar.Frr.51, 569.4, Alex.162.13 (anap.), Anaxandr.41.59 (anap., unless here the τέττιξ ἐνάλιος is meant, v. infr. 11); and as a medical remedy, Dsc. 2.51, Orib.Fr.64.2 gold ornament worn in the hair (cf.χρύσειαι δὲ κόρυμβαι ἐπ' αὐτῶν τέττιγες ὥς Asius Fr.Ep.13.5
), esp. in early Attica, Th.1.6, Heraclid.Pont. ap. Ath.12.512c; ἀρχαῖα.. καὶ τεττίγων ἀνάμεστα, i.e. full of old-fashioned notions, Ar.Nu. 984 (anap.), v. Sch.( 980) and cf. τεττιγοφόρας; γυνὴ.. ἔχει τ. ἐπιχρύσους, in a list of votive offerings at Samos, Michel832.51 (iv B.C.).3 Com. name for a foreign cook, Ath.14.659a, Hsch., cf. Poll.4.148, 150.4 Ἀκάνθιος τ., prov. of a silent person, Zen.1.51, St.Byz. s.v. Ἄκανθος.II τ. ἐνάλιος a kind of lobster, Arctos ursus, Ael.NA13.26.III part of the ear,τοῦ λοβοῦ τὸ περὶ τῇ κυψέλῃ Poll.2.86
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2 λαλέω
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, λαλεῖνἄριστος, 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
:—[voice] Pass.,πρᾶγμα κατ' ἀγορὰν λαλούμενον Ar.Th. 578
.3 in later writers, = λέγω, speak, : 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
:—[voice] 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
.III of musical sounds,αὐλῷ λαλέω Theoc.20.29
; of trees, v.supr.1.2;δι'[αὐλοῦ ἢ σάλπιγγος] λ. Arist. Aud. 801a29
; of Echo, D.C.74.14: also c.acc. cogn., μάγαδιν λαλεῖν sound the μάγαδις, Anaxandr.35.
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