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- λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… Birds 186, the first two closely related to notes in scholia thereto, the third drawn from a paroemiographic source. [1] Thucydides 5.84.3 lists the Athenian generals as Kleomedes and Teisias; Nikias was among the …
- λ793Λυκάβαςtwelvemonth, lykabas, lycabas, lukabas, light-course, wolf-gang… too slow to perceive is left ambiguous). See also the scholia to Oppian, Halieutica 1.551, where the etymologies that seem separate in other sources are combined: lugai/ws kai\ o)ce/ws bai/nwn kai\ kekrumme/nws kai\ lelhqo/tws. …
- λ801ΛύκειονLykeion, LyceumSee also lambda 802. The present entry derives from the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 356 (web address 1). For the Lykeion as a parade-ground cf. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.33. [1] The phraseology is slightly different …
- λ823ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… more fully, lambda 824. The present material comes from the scholia to Plato, Republic 599D (where L. is mentioned). [1] 58 in the scholion (and 8 in some of the Suda mss). [2] That …
- λ70ΛακρατίδηςLakratides, Lacratides; Lakrateides… a fragment of Philochorus (FGrH 328 F202) preserved in the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 220. Develin (below) 48 dates Lakrateides -- the most authentic version of his name -- to the period 521/20-512/11. Broadly …
- λ100Λαμπρῶςbrilliantly, brightly, clearly[1] Thucydides 2.7.1 and scholia, though the citations probably come most directly from Photius, Lexicon lambda78 Theodoridis (who has the whole of this opening part of the entry). The treaty in question, the Thirty …
- λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… the gloss (all but the final sentence) comes from the scholia there; cf. rho 13 and chi 284. For the Athenian-sponsored settlement (444/3 BCE) of Thourioi, on the site of Sybaris in S Italy, …
- λ693Λοῦτρονwash-water… Knights 1401 (web address 1), with the glossing of the scholia there. The mss of both Aristophanes and the Suda (and, later still, Eustathius, Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 3 p.784 van der Walk) do …
- λ697Λοφεῖονcrest-case… accent over the penult, the next-to-last syllable. [4] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 1109, where the phrase to\ lofei=on e)ce/negke tw=n triw=n lo/fwn occurs.
- λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… p.102 Henry]) stressed the seriousness of his mockery. The extensive scholia by Arethas, archbishop of Caesarea during the early 10th century, echo the Suda's disgust over the De morte Peregrini (pp.216-220 Rabe). On this …