Xenophantus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
Person cited as an example of someone overcome by an uncontrollable urge to laugh.
indeed it is excusable if he succumbs after a struggle, like Philoctetes in Theodectes when bitten by the viper, or Kerkyon in the Alope of Karkinos, or as men who try to restrain their laughter explode in one great guffaw, as happened to Xenophantus.