Ἐρεσχηλοῦντα
joking around, teasing
Translated by Craig Gibson15 May 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] scoffing at, and mocking, and, as it were, wrangling with.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐρεσχηλοῦντα· σκώπτοντα, καὶ χλευάζοντα, καὶ οἷον ἐρίζοντα.
Betacode
*)eresxhlou=nta: skw/ptonta, kai\ xleua/zonta, kai\ oi(=on e)ri/zonta.
Notes
- Present participle in the masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative plural. Same glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 11.3, in which event it is masc. sing.).
cf. epsilon 2934, epsilon 2935, epsilon 2986.