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- λ419ΛήθωI cause [someone] to forget[Meaning] I escape [someone's] notice. Also [sc. attested is] lh/somen ["we will cause (someone) to forget"] likewise.
- λ238Λελάχωσιthey would put [someone] in possession of[Meaning] they would bury [him].
- λ381Λειπομαρτυρίου δίκηsuit against a recalcitrant witnessThey [i.e. the Athenians] used to bring a lawsuit against those who knew something of what had happened and promised to give evidence in court, but later absconded; and if convicted, [the defendants] would …
- λ846Λυπράwretched… to live in a wretched little hut on a small plot of land and to content himself with the farmer's life. When he was called upon to be dictator, he happened to be working …
- λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… ['Stone-thrower' means] he who is deserving of having stones cast against him, that is of being stoned to death. And Aelian [writes]: "to destroy that cause of evil and stone-thrower."
- λ660Λόγου τυχεῖνto get a wordMeaning [to get] praise. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Ktesiphon [sc. uses the phrase].
- λ499Λιγαίνωνcrying out[Meaning someone] announcing. [Meaning someone] singing.
- λ430Ληϊστόςto be seized as booty[Meaning someone/something] to be acquired as a possession.
- λ481Λιασθείςhaving fallen, having sunk[Meaning someone] having turned aside.
- λ20Λάγνοςlecher[sc. Male] prostitute, low-life, [someone] obsessed by sex.
- λ376Λειώσαςgrinding smooth, pounding fine[Meaning someone] cutting up.
- λ97Λαμπροείμωνclad in dazzling garments[Meaning someone] wearing dazzling garments.
- λ111Λὰξ ποδὶ κινήσαςmoving with the foot by the heel[Meaning someone] moving with the sole of the foot.
- λ337Λευκόχρωςpale-fleshed, white-fleshed[Meaning someone] having a pale/white body. In the Epigrams: "Daphnis the pale/white-fleshed, making music with a fine pan-pipe".
- λ618ΛιτήLite, Lete[sc. A city] of Macedonia; Hyperides in the [speech] Against Demades mentions it.
- λ657Λογοποιῶνstory-telling[Meaning someone] fabricating false stories.
- λ591Λιποτάκτηςdeserter, post-deserter… Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] leipotakth/sas, [meaning someone] having abandoned, having fled.
- λ664Λόγχηlance, spearThey name each composite whole in the singular, as if someone might say "horse" in reference to many horses. So a "lance" [is] an iron javelin.
- λ553ΛίμνοςLimnos, Limnus[1] That of a conspirator against Alexander the Great (in Plutarch, Alexander 49). [2] i.e. a masculine form of li/mnh, for which see lambda 551.
- λ593ΛίπτωI am eager… ["to have been eager"] likewise; from which [comes] also lelihme/nos ["[someone] being eager"].
- λ445Ληματιᾷςyou are high-spirited… is also used without an iota [subscript] [as] lêmatias, [meaning] someone high-spirited and powerful.
- λ141Λάσταυροςeffeminate, nancy-boy[A term for] a male whore, hairy in the rump, someone being shaggy-arsed; he who is hairy in the arse. "If any amongst the Greeks or the non-Greeks [was] an effeminate in his ways, …
- λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… is a logos too. Aristophanes [writes]: "provide Euripides with a plot, and it becomes a tragedy". Search for Chrysippus' "abominable discourses" in the "Chrysippus" [entry].
- λ78Λαλίστατονmost talkative, very talkative[Meaning] clever[ness] in utterance. Also called this is someone with a good tongue and a most/very pleasant voice.
- λ769ΛυγαῖοςLygaian, Lugaean, Lugian?, Leugaian?, of the twilight[Meaning someone] from a place [of that name?].
- λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… hardships. For during the Peloponnesian War the Athenians dispatched Nikias against everyone and laid siege to them so strenuously as to make them perish by starvation. And in the first year Nikias brought Melos …
- λ732ΛωπίζωI strip, I uncoverThe headword verb literally means to disrobe (someone); cf. generally lambda 731, lambda 724, lambda 735. Its occurrences are confined to lexica (e.g. Hesychius lambda1510) and grammars, but for the compound e)klwpi/zw (epsilon 487) …
- λ108Λὰξ ἐντείνωνstretching out with the heel[Meaning someone] striking with a kick. Lax is the sort of sound made by the toes.
- λ284Λέπαςcrag… to the rocks, and very hard to yank off when someone wants to get hold of it. Aristophanes is fond of the [word] lepa/s. By insinuation: as a limpet [clings to] the rock, so …
- λ95Λαμπρὰν ἡμέρανbright dayA correction in someone's usage, here quoted. (For the contiguity of the two terms cf. under epsilon 3361.) The case of the headword phrase is accusative singular (of the base introduced in lambda 94). …