λᾰλ-έω,
talk, chat, prattle, ἕπου καὶ μὴ λάλει [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1058, compare “V.” 1135; ἡ μὲν χελιδὼν τὸ θέρος.. λαλεῖ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 208; λαλεῖς.. ἀμελήσας ἀποκρίνασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 287d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with dative, talk to one, λαλῶν ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς σεαυτῷ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 348; αὑτοῖς 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 11; πρὸς αὑτούς 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 9.10; λ. περί τινος 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 2, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 627; ὑπέρ τινος 3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus 26.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to λέγω, λαλεῖν ἄριστος, ἀδυνατώτατος λέγειν [[ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 95 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λαλῶν μὲν.., λέγων δέ.. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.118 (assuming variant); λαλεῖν τι ἡμῖν ὅπως ἂν ἡμᾶς ὕπνος λάβῃ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 7.10: hence, ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b generally, talk, speak, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 110 (variant for{λακεῖν}); καινὴν διάλεκτον λ. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 171; Ἀττικιστὶ λ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 195.4. with _metaphorically_, ζωγραφία λαλοῦσα (of poetry), opposed to ποίησις σιωπῶσα (of painting), 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus cited in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.346f. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 talk of, τινα [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus “fragment” 5.2; ἀλλήλαις λαλέουσι τεὸν γάμον αἱ κυπάρισσοι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.58; ἅμαξαν “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.92 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—passive, πρᾶγμα κατ᾽ ἀγορὰν λαλούμενον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 578. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]