εὐτραπελία

eutrapelia

ready wit, liveliness

Appears 5 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Eudemian Ethics 3
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Book III 3
Chapter 7 1233b16–1234b14

1234a4
1234a12
1234a15
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 7 1107a28–1108b10

1108a24
Rhetoric 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 12 1388b31–1389b12

1389b11

Dictionary (LSJ)

εὐτραπελία, ἡ, A. ready wit, liveliness, Hp. Decent. 7, Pl. R. 563a, Posidipp. 28.5, Cic. Fam. 7.32.1, D.S. 15.6: pl., pleasantries, Demetr. Eloc. 177; defined by Arist. as πεπαιδευμένη ὕβρις, Rh. 1389b11, cf. EN 1108a24; ἡ περὶ τὰς παιδιὰς καὶ τὰς ὁμιλίας εὐ. Plu. Ant. 43. 2. rarely in bad sense, = βωμολοχία, Ep.Eph. 5.4.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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