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οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love | Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in loving (Sophocles, Antigone 523)

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

jŏcōsus: a, um, adj. jocus,
I full of jesting, jocose, humorous, droll, facetious (class.).
   A Of persons: homo humanus et jocosus, Varr. R. R. 2, 5: Maecenas, Hor. Epod. 3, 20: Musa, Ov. Tr. 2, 354.—
   B Of inanim. and abstr. things: res, Cic. Off. 1, 37: lis, Ov. M. 3, 332: verba, id. F. 6, 692: furtum, Hor. C. 1, 10, 7: Nilus, the sportive Nile, with reference to the merry lives of the Egyptians, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 80.—Adv.: jŏ-cōsē, jestingly, jocosely: eumque lusi jocose satis, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2.—Comp.: dicere aliquid jocosius, Cic. Fam. 9, 24, 4; Hor. S. 1, 4, 104.