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|strgr=from a [[compound]] of εὖ and a derivative of the [[base]] of [[τροπή]] ([[meaning]] [[well]]-turned, i.e. [[ready]] at [[repartee]], [[jocose]]); [[witticism]], i.e. (in a [[vulgar]] [[sense]]) [[ribaldry]]: jesting. | |strgr=from a [[compound]] of εὖ and a derivative of the [[base]] of [[τροπή]] ([[meaning]] [[well]]-turned, i.e. [[ready]] at [[repartee]], [[jocose]]); [[witticism]], i.e. (in a [[vulgar]] [[sense]]) [[ribaldry]]: jesting. | ||
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|txtha=ἐυτραπελιας, ἡ (from [[εὐτράπελος]], from εὖ, and [[τρέπω]] to [[turn]]: [[easily]] [[turning]]; [[nimble]]-witted, [[witty]], [[sharp]]), [[pleasantry]], humor, [[facetiousness]] ([[Hippocrates]]), [[Plato]], rep. 8, p. 563a.; Diodorus 15,6; 20,63; Josephus, Antiquities 12,4, 3; [[Plutarch]], others); in a [[bad]] [[sense]], [[scurrility]], [[ribaldry]], [[low]] jesting (in [[which]] [[there]] is [[some]] [[acuteness]]): [[Aristotle]], eth. 2,7, 13; (ἡ [[εὐτραπελία]] πεπαιδευμενη [[ὕβρις]] ἐστιν, rhet. 2,12, 16 (cf. Cope, in the [[place]] cited); cf. Trench, § xxxiv.; Matt. Arnold, Irish Essays etc., p. 187ff (Speech at Eton) 1882). | |||
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