γελασῖνος
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
English (LSJ)
ὁ,
A laugher, of Democritus, Ael. VH4.20: fem. γελασίνη Anaxandr.25. II οἱ γ. (sc. ὀδόντες) the grinners, i. e. the front teeth, which show when one laughs, Poll.2.91. 2 mostly pl., dimples, which appear in the cheeks when persons laugh, Mart.7.25 (sg.), Choerob. in An.Ox.2.188; also of dimples in the hinder parts, Alciphr.1.39, AP5.34 (Rufin.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 479] ὁ, 1) der Lacher, so hieß Democrit, Ael. V. H. 4, 20; ein fem. γελασίνη hat Anaxandr. bei B. A. 87. – 2) οἱ γελασῖνοι, sc. ὀδόντες, Poll. 2, 91, die vorderen Schneidezähne, die sich beim Lachen zeigen. – 3) Bei Martial. 7, 24 die durch das Lachen sich bildenden Grübchen auf den Wangen; Choerob.; Suid. γραμμαὶ αἱ ἐκ τοῦ γελᾶν γιγνόμεναι. – Alciphr. 1, 39 u. Rufin. 2 (V, 35) = Grübchen auf den Hinterbacken; vgl. γέλως.
