aggressio

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γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ → the fool laughs even when there's nothing to laugh at

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

aggressĭo: (adg-), ōnis, f. aggredior.
I A going to or toward a thing (very rare; in the class. per. only in rhet. lang. for a proëm, introduction to a speech, = prooemium): cumque animos primā adgressione occupaverit, infirmabit excludetque contraria, * Cic. Or. 15, 50.—Also a rhetorical syllogism, Gr. ἐπιχείρημα>, Quint. 5, 10, 4; 28, 14, 27.—
II An attack, assault (cf. aggredior, II. B.), App. M. 8, p. 208, 27 Elm.