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|Definition=<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[talk]], [[chat]], [[prattle]], ἕπου καὶ μὴ λάλει <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>1058</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">V.</span>1135</span>; ἡ μὲν χελιδὼν τὸ θέρος… λαλεῖ <span class="bibl">Philem.208</span>; λαλεῖς… ἀμελήσας ἀποκρίνασθαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>287d</span>: c. dat., [[talk to]] one, λαλῶν ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς σεαυτῷ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>348</span>; αὑτοῖς <span class="bibl">Philem.11</span>; πρὸς αὑτούς <span class="bibl">Alex.9.10</span>; λ. περί τινος <span class="bibl">Pherecr.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>627</span>; ὑπέρ τινος <span class="bibl">Posidipp.26.3</span>; opp. [[λέγω]], [[λαλεῖν]] ἄριστος, ἀδυνατώτατος λέγειν <span class="bibl">Eup.95</span>; <b class="b3">λαλῶν μὲν... λέγων δέ</b>… <span class="bibl">D.21.118</span> (s.v.l.); λαλεῖν τι ἡμῖν ὅπως ἂν ἡμᾶς ὕπνος λάβῃ <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>7.10</span>: hence, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> generally, [[talk]], [[speak]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>110</span> (v.l.for [[λακεῖν]]) ; καινὴν διάλεκτον λ. <span class="bibl">Antiph.171</span>; Ἀττικιστὶ λ. <span class="bibl">Alex.195.4</span>. c. metaph., <b class="b3">ζωγραφία λαλοῦσα</b> (of poetry), opp. <b class="b3">ποίησις σιωπῶσα</b> (of painting), Simon. ap.Plu.2.346f. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[talk of]], τινα Alciphr.<span class="title">Fr.</span>5.2; ἀλλήλαις λαλέουσι τεὸν γάμον αἱ κυπάρισσοι <span class="bibl">Theoc.27.58</span>; ἅμαξαν <span class="title">Stoic.</span>2.92:—Pass., πρᾶγμα κατ' ἀγορὰν λαλούμενον <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>578</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> in later writers, = [[λέγω]], [[speak]], λαλεῖ οὐθὲν τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων πλὴν ἀνθρώπου <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>899a1</span>: freq. in <span class="bibl">LXX, <span class="title">Ge.</span>12.4</span>, al.; βασιλέως ἐναντίον <span class="bibl">Ezek.<span class="title">Exag.</span>118</span>; πρός τινα <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>3.22</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Vit.Auct.</span>3</span>, etc.; περὶ τῆς λέξεως <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Po.</span>5.32</span>, cf. <span class="title">Rh.</span>1.189 S., al.; <b class="b3">χειρσὶν ἅπαντα λαλήσας</b>, of a pantomime, <span class="title">IG</span>14.2124: abs., εἴ τι μὴ λίθος, τοὔργον, ἐρεῖς, λαλήσει <span class="bibl">Herod.4.33</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">6.61</span>; ἐλάλησεν ὁ κωφός <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>9.33</span>:—Pass., <b class="b3">λαληθήσεταί σοι ὅ τι σε δεῖ ποιεῖν</b> [[it shall be told]] thee... <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Act.Ap.</span>9.6</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[chatter]], opp. articulate speech, as of locusts, [[chirp]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.5.34</span>; <b class="b3">μεσημβρίας λαλεῖν τέττιξ</b> (sc. [[εἰμί]]), a very grasshopper to [[chirp]] at midday, <span class="bibl">Aristopho 10.6</span>; ἀνθρωπίνως λ. <span class="bibl">Strato Com.1.46</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> of musical sounds, αὐλῷ λαλέω <span class="bibl">Theoc.20.29</span>; of trees, v.supr.<span class="bibl">1.2</span>; δι'[αὐλοῦ ἢ σάλπιγγος] λ. <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Aud.</span>801a29</span>; of Echo, <span class="bibl">D.C.74.14</span>: also c.acc. cogn., <b class="b3">μάγαδιν λαλεῖν</b> [[sound]] the [[μάγαδις]], <span class="bibl">Anaxandr.35</span>.</span>