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- λ327Λευκὴ ψῆφοςwhite pebble, white voteHesychius lambda730; Apostolius 10.62, etc. cf. generally psi 85 (which explains 'or miserably').
- λ192ΛαίνιλλαLainilla, Laenilla… On the Nature of Animals 7.15. See also the paroemiographer Apostolius (7.5), who spells the name Lainila (something which in ps-Zonaras and Gennadius Scholarius, however, is said to be the name of an island).
- λ822Λύκου πτεράwolf's feathers… features in the background material (about wolves and oxen) in Apostolius 10.80.
- λ127Λάρος κεχηνώςa gull agapeAristophanes, Knights 956, with scholion; cf. Apostolius 10.46. The allusion is to the political greed of Kleon (kappa 1731). For proverbial gulls see also lambda 128.
- λ880Λύχνον ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ ἅπτειςyou are lighting a lamp at noon… Pausanias the Atticist), and taken up by the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 10.95; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1929.
- λ302Λέρνη θεατῶνLerna of spectators, Lerne of spectators… to Lucian, Marine Dialogues 8.2, Zenobius 4.86 and other paroemiographers (Apostolius 10.57, [Diogenianus] 6.7, Gregorius 4.23). The Lerne in question (Lerna in later sources and, via Latin, commonly in English) was a well-watered and, …
- λ128Λάρος ἐν ἕλεσιa gull in the marshesLikewise Apostolius 10.48. Photius, Lexicon lambda103 Theodoridis gives the phrase as 'a gull in Nemesis', which one might have thought the preferable lectio difficilior, but Theodoridis, while printing it, mentions Dindorf's rejection of it; …
- λ66Λακωνικὸν τρόπονin the Lakonian manner, in the Laconian manner, Spartan-style… in Hesychius lambda226 and Photius, Lexicon lambda47 Theodoridis, and cf. Apostolius (the paroemiographer) 10.42. This entry brings up the chronological rear of a considerable body of lexicographical and scholiastic mention of the phrase "Spartan-style": …
- λ8Λάβραξbass… For 'Milesian basses' as a byword/proverb, applying to gluttons, see Apostolius 10.38; and for Miletus itself cf. mu 1060. [1] Etymologically 'grabby', thus greedy, a sense present in a couple of the associated terms, …
- λ692Λουτράbaths… see Plato, Republic 492C, and the paroemiographers (e.g. Gregorius 2.87, Apostolius 9.59).