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λ861ΛυσιμάχειαLysimakheia, Lysimacheia, Lysimachea… generated the present entry -- was the one founded by Lysimachos (see OCD(4) s.v., and under alpha 1862, etc.) as capital for his Thrakian realm. This was on the site of Polis Agora (present-day …Matched in noteshighshort
λ868ΛυσίστρατοςLysistratos, Lysistratus[Lysistratos] and Thoumantis: paupers. Aristophanes [writes]: "to give no offence to Lysistratos, nor to Thoumantis the hearthless, with a willing heart".Matched in translationhighshort
λ862ΛυσίμαχοςLysimachos, Lysimachus… son of Aristides the Just. [sc. But it is another Lysimachus] whom Lycurgus mentions [as] a worthless lyric poet.Matched in translationhighshort
λ863ΛύσιπποςLysippos, LysippusOld Comedy; OCD(4) s.v. Lysippus(1), by W.G. Arnott. [1] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.124D [3.98 Kaibel] and 8.344E [8.33]. [2] (The names of one or more plays have evidently been lost.) For the thyrsus see theta …Matched in noteshighshort
λ860ΛυσικράτηςLysikrates, Lysicrates… [be blacker] if you had boiled the potion with which Lysikrates blackens himself". And elsewhere: "will the nose of Lysikrates be as proud as [that of] handsome men?". For he was snub-nosed and disreputable …Matched in translationhighshort
λ865Λυσιτελέςprofitable[Meaning something] good, advantageous, or suitable; because "[good] defrays what is expended on it, so that the return from the transaction creates s surplus in benefit." And Diodorus the Sicilian says: "Tryphon [...] prepared …Matched in headwordhighshort
λ858ΛυσίαςLysias[Lysias,] son of Kephalos; a Syracusan, an orator, pupil of T[e]isias and of Nikias, one of the 10 orators [sc. selected as the best] with Demosthenes. He was born in Athens, after Kephalos had …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ812Λυκόποδεςwolf-feet, white-feet… had a wolf symbol on their shields. But Aristophanes in Lysistrata is speaking of the Alkmaionids. For these men declared war on Hippias the tyrant and the Peisistratids and fortified Leipsydrion, above [Mount] Parnes; …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ715Λόχμηthicket, undergrowthAristophanes, Lysistrata 800, where the quoted phrase occurs (and Phormion is mentioned in line 804; comment from the scholia to both of these lines). The reference is specifically to pubic hair: see Henderson ad …Matched in noteshighshort
λ92ΛαμπιτώLampitoAristophanes, Lysistrata 998, with scholion; cf. omicroniota 158. The scholiast is aiming to explain two things: the Doric-dialect noun a)rxa/, here glossed with a)rxh/ (but NB modern editions follow Hermann in printing the verb …Matched in noteshighshort
λ357Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοιςis soaked with tears… BCE ([Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 833A, 834A, etc.; Lysias 12.67. Whether his father was Hippodamos of Miletos, the well-known town planner, is open to question, though this is commonly assumed -- see …Matched in noteshighshort
λ278ΛεωτροφίδηςLeotrophides… may also be used of the limp penis (cf. Aristophanes, Lysistrata 28-30 and epsilon 3006, notes) and sexual references are also possible, suggested by the term for a castrated bullock as a point of …Matched in noteshighshort

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