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13 entries for Thucydides

λ100Λαμπρῶςbrilliantly, brightly, clearly[Attested as meaning] "openly," not "famously." And in Thucydides: "and with the treaties clearly broken." Also in the other old-time writers. And elsewhere: "[...] and he was clearly breaking the so-called 'permanent' peace."Matched in translationhighshort
λ636Λογάδηνpicked[Meaning] select. Thucydides [writes]: "not having stone-working tools of iron but carrying stones picked, they fitted each one at random." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'picked stones'. "Created from picked stones." That is, …Matched in translationhighshort
λ200Λαισποδίας τὴν φύσινa natural Laispodias… Laispodias and Damasias used to be ridiculed for being bad-shinned. Thucydides in [book] 8 says that this Laispodias was also a general. He was also litigious. He also had certain things wrong with his …Matched in translationhighshort
λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… Melians by besieging them to the point of starvation. So Thucydides in the fifth [book].Matched in translationhighmedium
λ389Λειποστράτιονarmy-abandoning, lipostration… prosecuted by a graphe lipostratiou (Pollux 6.151, 8.40; scholion to Thucydides 6.91.7). The clause to\ mh\ e)qe/lein strateu/esqai is ambiguous, since it could refer either to the offense of desertion or to the refusal …Matched in noteshighshort
λ212ΛέαρχοςLearchus, Learchos, Learkhos… his father on a hunt) and history (e.g. Herodotus 4.110, Thucydides 2.67.2-3).Matched in noteshighshort
λ76Λαλητέοςworthy of mentionGreek Anthology 7.47, attributed to Thucydides the historian. The poet seems to use a)/fwnos 'having no voice' virtually as a passive, as lalhte/os, the verbal formed from lale/w clearly is. The verb lale/w (lambda …Matched in noteshighshort
λ649Λογισμόςcalculation, reasoning… reveals it to be an approximation of Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 44.Matched in noteshighshort
λ261ΛεωκόριονLeokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrineFrom the scholia to Thucydides 1.20.2, where the headword occurs. Phanodemos FGrH 352 F8 locates the Leokor(e)ion "in the middle of the Kerameikos"; cf. lambda 262. (Not yet securely identified in excavation: see J.M. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ846Λυπράwretched… Isidore. For the expression e)ndee/steron h)\ pro\s th\n e)cousi/an, cf. Thucydides 4.39.2.Matched in noteshighmedium
λ474Λῃσταίraiders, robbers, brigands, pirates… routinely observed by ancient writers. [3] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.4. [4] An approximation of Pausanias 10.34.5 (on an episode in his own lifetime, perhaps in the 170s CE). See Favuzzi [cited under …Matched in noteshighshort
λ262ΛεωκόριονLeokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine… century, when Hipparchus was killed by Harmodius and Aristogeiton nearby (Thucydides 1.20.3 and 6.57.3), and was presumably not very conspicuous by the time of the second century CE, since Pausanias does not mention it …Matched in noteshighshort
λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, Leonidas… Sphakteria in 425 BCE, i.e. during the Peloponnesian War (see Thucydides 4.8-41: web address 4); Sphakteria played no part in the Persian War. Adler notes that in the present entry Hermann suggested a corruption …Matched in noteshighmedium