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λ873Λῦτοwas ended, was dissolved, was adjourned[Meaning] was dissolved, was stopped. Homer [writes]: "the competition was ended."Matched in translationhighshort
λ585Λιπαροκρήδεμνοςbright-veiled… a valuable veil. "Bright-veiled Charis — if we may quote Homer — wrought you with her own hands."Matched in translationhighshort
λ551Λίμνηpool[Meaning] the sea in Homer, and the ocean, and the rivers; so that the word is generic.Matched in translationhighshort
λ805ΛυκίανLykia, LyciaHomer calls the Troad Lycia. "No one in Lycia claims to be better than you."Matched in translationhighshort
λ602ΛίσσομαιI supplicateHomer, Iliad 1.174 (web address 1); cf. lambda 601.Matched in noteshighshort
λ151ΛαυκανίηgulletEpic word: see e.g. Homer, Iliad 22.325, with scholion. Broadly similar entry in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon; see the references at Photius lambda118 Theodoridis. See again lambda 315.Matched in noteshighshort
λ417ΛῆθοςLethos, LethusHomer, Iliad 2.843 (in genitive case there: father of Hippothoos and Pylaios).Matched in noteshighshort
λ740ΛωτεῦνταbloomingHomer, Iliad 12.283 (where the present headword lwteu=nta -- in the neuter plural phrase "blooming plains" -- is a variant reading for lwtou=nta), with scholion. See web address 1. Likewise or similarly in other …Matched in noteshighshort
λ601Λίσσεσθαιto supplicatecf. Hesychius lambda1123, and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.174, where the headword verb occurs in the first person singular, as at lambda 602: see web address 1. The lexicographers' infinitive occurs in (e.g.) …Matched in noteshighshort
λ156Λαφυγμόςedacity, gourmandising… Flatterers [writes]: "[he/she/it] will be devoured with altogether vigorous edacity". Homer [writes]: "and [sc. a lion] devours all the entrails".Matched in translationhighshort
λ425Λήϊνανthey smoothedThe headword is probably a hyperdialectal spelling of the Homeric unaugmented aorist lei/hnan: see Homer, Odyssey 8.260 (web address 1); cf. scholion on this verse. For the verb leai/nw or leiai/nw, see also lambda …Matched in noteshighshort
λ570Λίνοςlinos, linusΑ sort of hymn. Homer [writes]: "he sang a fine linos". [The term arises] not because of the strings [being made] from flax, but [because] they sang a sort of hymn, like a paean. …Matched in translationhighshort
λ112Λαοσσόοςpeople-saver, people-saving… s.v.) and also of female ones, as required here: Eris (Homer, Iliad 20.48) and Athena (Homer, Iliad 13.128, Odyssey 22.210). Thus this whole entry, epithet plus gloss, comes from the scholiastic and lexicographical tradition; …Matched in noteshighshort
λ114Λάπαθονpitfall; dock, monk's rhubarb, sorrel… Hence also [comes] the [verb] lapa/cai, [meaning] to make empty. Homer [writes]: "he drained the ranks of the young men". Meaning he emptied [them] by ravaging.Matched in translationhighshort
λ480Λιαρόνwarm, lukewarm… singular of this adjective, glossed as in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 11.777 (where it refers to blood).Matched in noteshighshort
λ356Λείαςbooty, plunder… in Sophocles; hence also lh|sth/s in its proper sense ["plunderer"]. Homer [writes]: "we drove together a lot of booty from out the plain". "For we recently found all the cattle dead and slaughtered". And …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ233Λέκτραιςon couchescf. under eta 201. [1] From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 8.337, where the phrase e)n le/ktroisi occurs (web address 1). (The Suda's feminine le/ktrais is an error, not made in other lexica.) [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
λ319Λεύκηwhite-poplar… white-poplar grew by the [river] Acheron, which is why in Homer it is called acherois.Matched in translationhighshort
λ428Ληΐσατοseized as plunder… aorist form of it occurs in, and is quoted from, Homer, Iliad 18.28 (web address 1). Compare also Homer, Odyssey 1.398 (where meter requires the spelling lhi+/ssato; the Suda's spelling also features in the …Matched in noteshighshort
λ479Λίανexcessively, extremelycf. generally Hesychius lambda923 (and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.361). Headword and gloss, both commonplace adverbs, are reversed at pi 247.Matched in noteshighshort
λ421Λήϊαcrops, grain-fields… lexica (see the references at Photius lambda246 Theodoridis), including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 2.147, where the singular of this neuter noun -- lh/i+on (A) in LSJ -- occurs …Matched in noteshighshort
λ851ΛύσσαravingFrom the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.239, where the headword occurs (web address 1). cf. lambda 854, lambda 869, and under omicron 130 (personification).Matched in noteshighshort
λ237Λέλακαςyou have cried out… by Euripides (web address 1). See also lambda 432. [1] Homer, Iliad 20.277 (web address 2). [2] Homer, Iliad 13.616 (web address 3). [3] Homer, Odyssey 12.85 (web address 4), about Scylla (sigma 709).Matched in noteshighshort
λ173Λάψοντεςintending to lapThe headword -- quoted from Homer: see n.1 below -- is the future participle of la/ptw (lambda 119, and cf. lambda 172), masculine nominative plural. [1] Blood-sated wolves, in this simile from Homer, Iliad …Matched in noteshighshort
λ308Λέσχαιlounges… in which many people with time to spare would sit. Homer [writes]: "do you not wish to go to a smithy to sleep, or to some lounge?". Kleanthes says that the lounges were set …Matched in translationhighshort
λ780Λύγοςwithy[Meaning] the fibrous plant [of that name]. Homer [writes]: "he bound [them] with pliant withies." And Arrian [writes]: "since the crossing seemed impossible for them, Brut[t]ius brought together the natives and ordered them to …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ537Λικριφίςcross-wise… 1). Gloss (also in other lexica) from the scholia to Homer, Iliad 14.463, where it occurs.Matched in noteshighshort
λ600Λισσήsmooth… lisso/s. It is glossed here as in the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 5.412, where it appears (in reference to a rock); see web address 1. Similar glosses in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, …Matched in noteshighshort
λ800Λυκείηνwolfskincf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 10.459 (web address 1), where the accusative-case headword occurs (as luke/hn); and Hesychius lambda1373.Matched in noteshighshort
λ195Λαισήϊονbuckler, targetMade of animal hide. cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.453, where the word occurs: web address 1. See also Herodotus 7.91 (on the Cilicians in Xerxes' army).Matched in noteshighshort

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