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Hereupon Hystaspas answered somewhat as follows: “If you will heed me, Aglai+tadas, you will freely expend this very valuable commodity upon your enemies and will try to set them to weeping; but upon us and your friends here you will please to lavish this cheap article, laughter. And you can, for I know you must have a great quantity of it stored up; for you have never spent it upon yourself nor do you ever afford any laughter for your friends or for your enemies if you can help it. So you have no excuse for begrudging us a laugh.”“What!” said Aglai+tadas; “do you really think, Hystaspas, to get a laugh out of me?”“Well, by Zeus,” said the other captain, “he is a very foolish fellow, let me tell you, if he does; for I believe one might rub fire out of you more easily than provoke a laugh from you.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 5 and 6. Walter Miller. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1914.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 296
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, VERBAL NOUNS
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.4
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
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- LSJ, ἀναισιμ-όω
- LSJ, ἀπόκειμαι
- LSJ, ἐξάγω
- LSJ, ἐκ-τρίβω
- LSJ, ἐπιδαψι^λεύω
- LSJ, καθίζω
- LSJ, παρεκτέον
- LSJ, πρόφα^σ-ις
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