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- λ218Λεβηρίςslough, cast skin… skin which a snake sheds. And [sc. there is] a proverb: "blinder than a cast skin and a peg." It is a kind of bird, fleshless and thin. Otherwise [sc. the reading is] gumno/teros …
- λ128Λάρος ἐν ἕλεσιa gull in the marshesA proverb in reference to those quick to pay back [sc. what they owe].
- λ816Λύκος ἔχανενa wolf gaped[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those hoping to have something, but failing to attain their hope. They say that the wolf, when he wishes to seize something, attacks it gaping. So when …
- λ178Λαίθαργοςsecretly-biting… 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 are plotting in secret.
- λ529Λίθων χοαίstreams of stones, outpourings of stones… references at Photius lambda307 Theodoridis. [1] Euripides fr.1007; cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 3.69, and see already at lambda 336 with note there. (How precisely Euripides' phrase connects with the proverb is not clear.)
- λ821ΛύκοςLykos, Lycus… by tens used to rally. This gave rise to the proverb "Lykos' ten-company". So out of the ten-company [came] the [terms] bribing in tens and to be bribed in tens.
- λ127Λάρος κεχηνώςa gull agape[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to snatchers and thieves. For the gull is a snatching and gluttonous bird.
- λ292Λεπτὰ ξαίνειςyou are combing wisps[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those leading a life of penury.
- λ820Λύκου δεκάςLykos' ten-company, Lycus' ten-companyA proverbial phrase. [Used] because Lykos the hero had a shrine near the jurycourts [sc. in Athens], where the blackmailers would lie in wait. Three obols a day was set apart for him.
- λ818Λύκος χανώνa wolf gaping[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to unsuccessful [persons/things]. Aelian [writes]: "he begged the god to assist him and to reveal as gaping wolves those who were trying to record his property for themselves, …