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λ661Λόγοισιν Ἑρμόδωρος ἐμπορεύεταιHermodoros is a shipper in speechesHermodoros became a student of Plato, took his collected works and was selling them in Sicily.Matched in translationhighshort
λ521Λίθον ἕψειςyou are boiling a stoneProverb invoked in Aristophanes, Wasps 280 (web address 1); cf. [Plato], Eryxias 405B; Apostolius 10.68, etc.Matched in noteshighshort
λ674Λοπάςgriddle, hotplate[1] Plato Comicus fr. 109 Kock (LSJ s.v. I.2), and Glossarium Italioticum 33 Kassel-Austin; but Plato distinguishes the lopa/s and the th/ganon (tau 466) as different kinds of frying pan: "and a lopa/s is …Matched in noteshighshort
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… as li/spai; cf. LSJ s.v. See also the scholia to Plato, Symposium 193A (cf. note [2] below). The word (here in the nominative plural) is clearly an Atticism and part of a style frowned …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ603Λίσπηsmooth, polished… two of astragaloi, see lambda 604 and the reference to Plato there. [1] This word is not found in the surviving texts of Apollonius Dyscolus. [2] The scholiast assigns this definition to Callistratus, but …Matched in noteshighshort