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  1. λ868ΛυσίστρατοςLysistratos, Lysistratus[Lysistratos] and Thoumantis: paupers. Aristophanes [writes]: "to give no offence to Lysistratos, nor to Thoumantis the hearthless, with a willing heart".Matched in translationhighshort
  2. λ862ΛυσίμαχοςLysimachos, Lysimachus… son of Aristides the Just. [sc. But it is another Lysimachus] whom Lycurgus mentions [as] a worthless lyric poet.Matched in translationhighshort
  3. λ866ΛυσιτελῶI profit[Used] with a dative.Matched in headwordhighshort
  4. λ860ΛυσικράτηςLysikrates, Lysicrates… [be blacker] if you had boiled the potion with which Lysikrates blackens himself". And elsewhere: "will the nose of Lysikrates be as proud as [that of] handsome men?". For he was snub-nosed and disreputable …Matched in translationhighshort
  5. λ865Λυσιτελέςprofitable[Meaning something] good, advantageous, or suitable; because "[good] defrays what is expended on it, so that the return from the transaction creates s surplus in benefit." And Diodorus the Sicilian says: "Tryphon [...] prepared …Matched in headwordhighshort
  6. λ833Λύματαlumata[Meaning] pledges/securities. As lusima ["redeemable things"] and lutrosima ["ransomable things"].Matched in translationhighshort
  7. λ790Λύειlooses, pays… s.v. V.2. on (te/lh) lu/ein used in the sense of lusitelei=n; and generally lambda 865, lambda 866.Matched in noteshighshort
  8. λ67ΛακωνικόςLaconic… (and cf. lambda 68). [3] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 276, where the phrase occurs. See LSJ under pne/w, V. For the "way of thinking" idiom cf. already lambda 62.Matched in noteshighshort
  9. λ226Λέαιναlioness… references at Photius lambda133 Theodoridis) follows the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 231 (here quoted); cf. tau 1197 and the notes there.Matched in noteshighmedium
  10. λ816Λύκος ἔχανενa wolf gaped… in bibliography). It is used elsewhere in comedy: at Aristophanes, Lysistrata 628-29 and the scholia thereto (cf. delta 619, which has e)pi\ tw=n ma/thn, "he gapes after things that are in vain", rather than …Matched in noteshighshort
  11. λ451Λήμνιον κακὸν βλέπωνlooking a Lemnian evil… fire" (lambda 449) in (e.g.) Sophocles, Philoctetes 800, and Aristophanes, Lysistrata 299; it issued from the volcano on the island which was reputedly Hephaistos' forge. The present headword phrase itself is presumably a quotation, …Matched in noteshighmedium
  12. λ357Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοιςis soaked with tears… BCE ([Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 833A, 834A, etc.; Lysias 12.67. Whether his father was Hippodamos of Miletos, the well-known town planner, is open to question, though this is commonly assumed -- see …Matched in noteshighshort

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