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λ2Λᾶαςrock[Meaning] stone. And [sc. also attested is the genitive] la/ou, [meaning] of [a] stone. From the nominative la=os, produced from the genitive la=os. "By a rock's force." "Moving sideways, and crouching low on a …highshort
λ5Λάβῃmay take, would takeSecond-aorist subjunctive.highshort
λ6ΛαβίνιοςLabinios, LaviniusA proper name.highshort
λ7Λαβραγόρηνbraggart, brashly-speaking[Meaning him] orating excessively.highshort
λ8ΛάβραξbassA kind of fish. And [there is] a proverb: 'Milesian basses'. The appellation was applied because its mouth gapes open and it swallows the bait readily and eagerly [la/brws]; consequently it is easily caught. …highmedium
λ9Λαβρότατοςmost intemperate, very intemperate[Meaning] most/very excessive.highshort
λ10ΛαβρώνιονlabronionA kind of drinking-vessel. Also [sc. attested is the masculine] labrw/nios.highshort
λ11Λαβύρινθοςlabyrinth[Meaning a] spiral-shaped place; it is also said of nonsense. [sc. The term arises] from its not having [labein] a door [thura]. Or from using many circles of words. It also means the votive-offering …highshort
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 …highshort
λ13Λαγαρόνslack, flat[Meaning something] rather hollow. "But they contrived [defenses] that by slackness or simplicity sufficed against the archers." And in the Epigrams: "and the skin hangs slack on my neck." And elsewhere: "because for you …highshort
λ16Λαγίδηςhare-ish, leveret; LagidThe [sc. offspring] of the hare.highshort
λ19Λάγνηςlecher[la/gnhs is] masculine in place of la/gnos.highshort
λ22ΛαγόβιοςLagobios, LagobiusA proper name.highshort
λ23Λαγόνοςflank, hollow[no gloss]highshort
λ27Λαγῴδιονleveret[no gloss]highshort
λ29Λαγὼς καθεύδωνa sleeping hare[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those pretending to sleep. The form lagwo/s, lagwou= is also used. And in the Epigrams: "while I was still a swift-footed child, torn straight from the breast …highshort
λ31Λαγῴοιςon hares[Meaning] on the flesh of the hare. Aristophanes [writes]: "[with the revenue] from which twenty thousand of the common people [could live] on hares and all sorts of garlands."highshort
λ33Λάγυνοςflask, flagon"Lie there straightway for the Cyprian, o drunken-stumbling flask, now dedicated, cousin of the nectar-sweet Bacchic goblet, moist-voiced, fellow banqueter at the fairly-distributed feast, narrow-necked one, daughter of the sharing token, self-taught servant to …highshort
λ34ΛάδωνοςLadon, LadoA river of Arkadia.highshort
λ35Λάεινto see[Meaning] to look. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)lao/s ["unseeing"], [meaning] a blind man.highshort
λ36Λάειος φόνοςLaian murderThat of Laios.highshort
λ37Λάϊγγεςpebbles[Meaning] small stones.highshort
λ38Λάϊνον ἕσο χιτῶναyou would have put on a shirt of stone[Meaning] you would have been stoned.highshort
λ40ΛαΐςLais[genitive] *lai/dos: the courtesan [of that name]. See under chelone.highshort
λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breast[The one] creating forgetfulness of pain in the child.highshort
λ43Λαθικηδήςcare-banishing[Meaning] one who/that which creates forgetfulness of misfortunes.highshort
λ44ΛάθωμαιI would forget[Used] with a genitive.highshort
λ45Λαθραίωςsecretly[Secretly] and in secret and secretively: [all] meaning in a hidden manner.highshort
λ46Λακάνηhod, flat panWhat in common dialect [sc. is the headword] laka/nh; from the intensive prefix la- and the [verb] xai/nein ['to gape open']; for [it is] flat; but the Attic form [is] leka/nh.highshort
λ48Λάκαιον ὕδωρLakaian water, Lacaean water[Meaning] that from a (?)lakaina.highshort