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λ378Λείπεσθαιto lose[Meaning] to be defeated. Polybius [writes]: "of all the activities in warfare, the souls/spirits of the contenders have the greatest weight [sc. in influencing the outcome] both toward losing and toward winning."Matched in translationhighshort
λ819Λυκόστομοςwolf-mouth… History of Animals 8.18, 13.2; and cf. alpha 4660. [2] Polybius 7.13.7 -- abridged: he attributes 'the Arcadian story' to Plato (Republic 565D) -- on Philip V of Macedon (phi 355).Matched in noteshighshort
λ141Λάσταυροςeffeminate, nancy-boy… lambda 135, lambda 136, lambda 137. [2] An approximation of Polybius 8.9.6, itself preserving Theopompus FGrH 115 F224 on the hetairoi of Philip II of Macedon (phi 354); cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.167B [4.62 Kaibel].Matched in noteshighshort
λ625Λιτοῖςplain, simple, frugal… with the second and third of the Suda's glosses. [2] Polybius 8.37.2 (abridged: web address 1), on the Roman siege of Syracuse in 216 BCE.Matched in noteshighshort
λ367Λεῖξαιlixae, camp-followers, sutlers… morally-loaded historical writer) unidentifiable. (Adler notes the 'rash' attribution to Polybius by 'Ursin[us], i.e. the scholar and antiquarian Fulvio Orsini [1529-1600].) [3] This word appears to be repeated as the unglossed lemma of lambda …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ329ΛεύκιοςLucius, LeukiosPolybius 6.11a.7 (not included in Loeb/Perseus edition); cf. Livy 1.34 (web address 1). [1] This is Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (whose Etruscan name, according to Livy, was Lucumo), the legendary fifth king of Rome (616-579 …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ330Λεύκιος ΑἰμίλιοςLeukios Aimilios, Lucius AemiliusDrawn from two sections of Polybius, 18.35.4-6 and (from "So the finest proof") 31.22.1-4; see also n.4 below. On L. Aemilius Paullus the younger (died 160 BCE) see generally OCD(4) p.21. [1] In the …Matched in noteshighmedium