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- λ780Λύγοςwithy… were accustomed amongst themselves to make a journey in wintertime. Having bound discs [made] out of withies on their feet, they themselves proceeded safely across the snow, compressed [sc. as it was] by the …
- λ741Λωτίηlotus-crown, lotus-wreath[Meaning] a crown/wreath [made] out of lotus-flowers.
- λ247Λέντιονnapkin, hand-towelThe headword lention presumably reflects Latin linteum (literally, made of linen). See e.g. John 13:4-5.
- λ570Λίνοςlinos, linus… linos". [The term arises] not because of the strings [being made] from flax, but [because] they sang a sort of hymn, like a paean. Or a string of a lyre.
- λ535Λίκνονwinnowing-fan… sieve, or winnowing-shovel. But some write it with a diphthong. "Having overturned the winnowing-fan lying on her knees, she ran off." Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] liknoeidh/s ["winnowing-fan-like"], [meaning] a filthy person.
- λ271Λέων λέων σοι γέγονεν ἔκμαγμα σόνa lion a lion has been born to you (as) your (very) image… situated. "Both in each and every other respect and in having a penis like yours, bent just like a cell".
- λ713Λόχμαςthickets… that, whenever they voted, they would look like men. Also, "having rubbed oil upon [her] entire body during the day" she warmed herself in the sun in order to become tanned like a man.
- λ742Λωτόςlotus, lotos… musical instrument in question was so called because it was made from a stalk of one of the plants called lotus, although in the second quotation below an instrument made of horn seems to …
- λ491ΛίβερνοςLibernos, Libernus… Libernus, and erected an altar there; from this Vergil too made his beginning.