or γελοῖος, α, ον, mirth-provoking, amusing, once in Hom., Il. 2.215 (in Ep. form γελοίϊος); χρῆμα Archil. 79, cf. Hdt. 8.25; Αἰσώπου τι γ. Ar. V. 566, cf. 1259; γελοῖα jests, Thgn. 311; γέλοια λέγειν Anaxandr. 10, Alex. 183; opp. σπουδαῖος, X. Cyr. 2.3.1, Pl. Lg. 816d; τοῦ ἀληθοῦς ἕνεκα, οὐ τοῦ γ. Id. Smp. 215a; τὸ γ. the comic, Arist. Po. 1449a34, al. ; τὰ γ. ἡδέα Id. Rh. 1371b35; of persons, facetious, μισῶ γελοίους E. Fr. 492; ἡδὺς καὶ γ. Aeschin. 1.126; γ. ἐστι καὶ βούλεται Pl. Smp. 213c. Adv. -οίως Id. Cri. 53d.
ludicrous, absurd, Ζεὺς γ. ὀμνύμενος τοῖς εἰδόσιν Ar. Nu. 1241; γ. ἔσομαι αὐτοσχεδιάζων Pl. Phdr. 236d; γ. ἰατρός, διδάσκαλος, Id. Prt. 340c, R. 392d; ἐπὶ τὸ γελοιότερον ὅμοιος a caricature, Arist. Top. 117b17, cf. Po. 1449a36; of arguments, etc., paradoxical, Pl. Prt. 355a, Tht. 158e, etc. Adv. -οίως, ἔχειν Id. R. 528d, cf. Arist. Mete. 362b12. — In Smp. 189b, Pl. confines γ. to signf. 1, γ. εἰπεῖν ἀλλὰ μὴ καταγέλαστα. (Att. γέλοιος A.D. Pron. 50.5, but γελοῖος Ael. Dion. Fr. 101, and so cod. R in Ar. Ach. 1058, Nu. 1241. Some Gramm. expl. γέλοιος, = γέλωτος ἄξιος, γελοῖος, = γελωτοποιός, Ammon. p. 38V., EM 224.43; others reversely, Et.Gud., etc. ; Suid. gives both views. Phlp. ap. Eust. 906.53 wrote γελοιός, = γελωτοποιός.)