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52 entries for Cocles, One-Eyed

λ294Λεπτὴν πλέκειhe is weaving a thin oneSomething said in reference to poor people. In effect frugal, narrow, weak. Hence also [sc. comes the term] leptolo/gos ["quibbler"]. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "and having relaxed your subtle mind speculate about the matters …Matched in headwordhighshort
λ131ΛαρυγγιῶI will throttle… silence the orators. For when the pharynx has been cut, one cannot project one's voice.Matched in translationhighshort
λ67ΛακωνικόςLaconic[A term for] one who is hard, one who is brave. For such [are] the Laconians. Also [found as] an adverb. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'breathing Laconic', meaning strong[ly]; or adopting the …Matched in translationhighshort
λ854Λυσσάνιεo good sir[Meaning] o mad one. But also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'rabid dog': "avoid the asp, the toad, the serpent and Laodikeans; also a rabid dog and -- I repeat -- Laodikeans."Matched in translationhighshort
λ51Λακέρυζα κορώνηcawing crow[Meaning] one making loud shrieks.Matched in translationhighshort
λ754Λοιδορησμόςabusement… Frogs 758: web address 1) glossed with a related common one. For the gloss see lambda 755.Matched in noteshighshort
λ495Λιβυκὸν ὄρνεονLibyan birdMeaning a big one. There being in Libya many strange birds.Matched in translationhighshort
λ571Λινοπτωμένηnet-watching… watch over hunting nets", and they criticize two other interpretations: one derived "ignorantly from the birds falling into the nets", and one claiming that the word means "to fear excessively".Matched in noteshighshort
λ322Λευκὴ ἡμέραwhite day[Meaning] a good [one], and [sc. suitable] for festivity. Eupolis in Flatterers [uses the expression]. "Night's dark circle yields to white-horsed day to kindle her light."Matched in translationhighshort
λ566Λίνον λίνῳ συνάπτειςyou are joining linen with linen… you not...?' That version is reckoned to be the authentic one, though the paroemiographers preferred this one. For 'linen' (or flax) cf. generally lambda 561, lambda 564, lambda 571, lambda 572.Matched in noteshighshort
λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wicked… kithara-player who sang the so-called orthios nomos and the white [one], which were the ones admired at that time. As to Ariphrades, his licentiousness with women was unnatural.Matched in translationhighmedium
λ441Λῆμαwill… "both had courage which was not cowardly, minds not idle. One should expect Euripides on the one hand to say something refined and polished; and on the other Aeschylus, on the attack, to toss …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ178Λαίθαργοςsecretly-biting[Meaning one who is] biting for hire. "You wag your tail while biting, and you are a secretly-biting bitch." A proverb applying to people who, to be sure, pretend to be well disposed but …Matched in translationhighshort
λ156Λαφυγμόςedacity, gourmandising[Meaning] gluttony, and extragavance in eating; that is, [one] out of the ordinary, expensive luxury. Eating greedily. Eupolis in Flatterers [writes]: "[he/she/it] will be devoured with altogether vigorous edacity". Homer [writes]: "and [sc. a …Matched in translationhighshort
λ794ΛυκαβηττὸςLykabettos, Lycabettus[Lykabettos] and Parnassos [are] very large mountains, one in Attika and the other in Phokis. "If you are speaking to us of Lykabettoses and the heights of Parnassoses, is this teaching what is useful?". …Matched in translationhighshort
λ578Λιπαρέςobstinate… [+] pareinai ["to be present"]. Aristophanes [writes]: "for if any one of us concedes to these in even the slightest, they will not lack for obstinate handiwork." That is, for daring. Or, the women …Matched in translationhighshort
λ121Λαρινοὶ βόεςLarinian oxen, fatted oxen[Meaning] the ones from Epirus, [named] after Larinus the oxherd who stole the oxen of Heracles -- as Lykos of Rhegion [states] -- when [Heracles] brought the oxen of Geriones. But Proxenos [says] that …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ787Λυδὸς ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ παίζειa Lydian is playing at noon… urges with their own hands. This proverb [is] like the [one that goes] "a goatherd in the heat". Because at such times goatherds are licentious.Matched in translationhighshort
λ592Λιπῶσιsleek… active participles, masculine/neuter dative plurals (cf. delta 572), the headword one quoted from the comic poet Phrynichus, referring to olives (fr. 40 K.-A.).Matched in noteshighshort
λ845Λυπηρότεροι σταλαγμοῦmore vexing than a drool… is masculine plural there (and here) but neuter singular in one of the paroemiographers (Arsenius 10.93a, with same gloss).Matched in noteshighshort
λ860ΛυσικράτηςLysikrates, Lysicrates… certainty that L. the corrupt and L. the vain are one and the same. (The name is common: 45 listings in LGPN ii.) One would also have wished for some corroborating evidence for the …Matched in noteshighshort
λ12Λάγαναmeal-cakes[Meaning] flat-cakes, like dry [ones]. From the [adjective] lagaru/ ["thin"]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "[him] starving and eating nothing." "And when David had sacrificed in honor of the relocation of the ark …Matched in translationhighshort
λ734Λωποδύτηςcloak-stripper[Meaning] a thief of outer-garments. Alternatively lwpodu/ths [means] one who unclothes corpses. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] lwpodutei=n, [meaning] to steal outer-garments. "But the dead of the Persians, being unclothed and lacking …Matched in translationhighshort
λ99Λαμπρόψυχοςbright-souled, dazzling-souled, high-mindedSame entry in Photius, Lexicon lambda77 Theodoridis; fuller one in the Lexica Segueriana (Anonymus Antatticista 106.6), adding the crucial fact that the headword comes from Attic Comedy: Araros [alpha 3737] fr. 15 Kock (and …Matched in noteshighshort
λ171Λαχώνhaving obtained[Meaning] having received one's portion/share. Aristophanes [writes]: "before having received [your assigned share] you gobble down what belongs to the public". That is, before having [a share] assigned by lot, before being voted [a …Matched in translationhighshort
λ288ΛέπρεονLepreon, Lepreum… Aristophanes proffered [it] as a masculine: "Eleian" - meaning the one in Elis - "Lepreus". It took this name because of the fact that their skin peels [lepein] - making them transparent; [or] from …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ863ΛύσιπποςLysippos, Lysippus… 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 613.Matched in noteshighshort
λ389Λειποστράτιονarmy-abandoning, lipostration… to serve on campaign. Also [sc. attested is] leipostratios, [meaning] one who is abandoning the army.Matched in translationhighshort
λ128Λάρος ἐν ἕλεσιa gull in the marshes… Theodoridis gives the phrase as 'a gull in Nemesis', which one might have thought the preferable lectio difficilior, but Theodoridis, while printing it, mentions Dindorf's rejection of it; also Dobree's suggestion that it is …Matched in noteshighshort
λ179ΛαιθυράζωI scoff… ps.-Zonaras 1292.10, and see chi 337) and the more elaborate one from the ninth-century grammarian Theognostus (in a passage about terms with the prefix lai, Canones 27.2): 'producing a sound through the mouth against …Matched in noteshighshort