witticism
From LSJ
ἀλλ’ οὔτε πολλὰ τραύματ’ ἐν στέρνοις λαβὼν θνῄσκει τις, εἰ μὴ τέρμα συντρέχοι βίου, οὔτ’ ἐν στέγῃ τις ἥμενος παρ’ ἑστίᾳ φεύγει τι μᾶλλον τὸν πεπρωμένον μόρον → But a man will not die, even though he has been wounded repeatedly in the chest, should the appointed end of his life not have caught up with him; nor can one who sits beside his hearth at home escape his destined death any the more
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
Ar. and P. σκῶμμα, τό, ἀστεῖον, τό (Dem. 689).
indulge in witticism, v.: Ar. and P. χαριεντίζεσθαι.
