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- λ326Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳsomeone white like Nikias sprang upA misquotation of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 428 (where the "someone" is not feminine, as here, but masculine, after the noun "youth"; see web address 1). Comment from the scholia on the line follows. This early-fourth-century …
- λ238Λελάχωσιthey would put [someone] in possession of[Meaning] they would bury [him].
- λ381Λειπομαρτυρίου δίκηsuit against a recalcitrant witnessThey [i.e. the Athenians] used to bring a lawsuit against those who knew something of what had happened and promised to give evidence in court, but later absconded; and if convicted, [the defendants] would …
- λ846Λυπράwretched… to live in a wretched little hut on a small plot of land and to content himself with the farmer's life. When he was called upon to be dictator, he happened to be working …
- λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… ['Stone-thrower' means] he who is deserving of having stones cast against him, that is of being stoned to death. And Aelian [writes]: "to destroy that cause of evil and stone-thrower."
- λ660Λόγου τυχεῖνto get a wordMeaning [to get] praise. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Ktesiphon [sc. uses the phrase].
- λ825ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… rescued them. The authentic speeches of Lykourgos, as preserved, are: Against Aristogeiton, Against Autolykos, Against Leokrates, Against Lykophron - two, Against Pasikles, Against Menaichmos, Against Demades, Defence of himself, In support of the accounts, …
- λ430Ληϊστόςto be seized as booty[Meaning someone/something] to be acquired as a possession.
- λ105Λαμψακηνῶνof Lampsacenes, of LampsakenesOn the wrath of Alexander against them, look under Anaximenes.
- λ20Λάγνοςlecher[sc. Male] prostitute, low-life, [someone] obsessed by sex.
- λ276ΛεωσθένηςLeosthenes… quite ready zealousness at the critical time in the war against the Macedonians and with his good fortune failing, proceeds against the enemy and makes a rash charge. He is struck by a rock …
- λ657Λογοποιῶνstory-telling[Meaning someone] fabricating false stories.
- λ591Λιποτάκτηςdeserter, post-deserter… Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] leipotakth/sas, [meaning someone] having abandoned, having fled.
- λ486ΛιβάνιοςLibanius, Libanios… to cause distress to the great sophist Prohaeresius by giving someone else more honour. At any rate, a certain Acacius, someone who was eloquent in rhetoric, and Tuscianus of Phrygia, constantly criticised him for …
- λ256ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… also became a heretic at Antioch. Photius the patriarch wrote against him. For this man addressed audacious and blasphemous nonsenses concerning the "homoousios" to Flavianus.
- λ593ΛίπτωI am eager… ["to have been eager"] likewise; from which [comes] also lelihme/nos ["[someone] being eager"].
- λ268ΛέωνLeon, LeoThis man was sent as general by Eutropius the eunuch against the barbarians. He was easily-satisfied and, on account of care for strong drink, easily led astray. For his manhood compelled him to have …
- λ141Λάσταυροςeffeminate, nancy-boy[A term for] a male whore, hairy in the rump, someone being shaggy-arsed; he who is hairy in the arse. "If any amongst the Greeks or the non-Greeks [was] an effeminate in his ways, …
- λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… is a logos too. Aristophanes [writes]: "provide Euripides with a plot, and it becomes a tragedy". Search for Chrysippus' "abominable discourses" in the "Chrysippus" [entry].
- λ284Λέπαςcrag… to the rocks, and very hard to yank off when someone wants to get hold of it. Aristophanes is fond of the [word] lepa/s. By insinuation: as a limpet [clings to] the rock, so …
- λ633Λίχνοςgluttonous[sc. Someone] snatching eagerly at the dishes, insatiable, gobbling, overeating. Aelian [writes]: "a man fattening his gluttonous and licentious eye with evil entertainment thirsted to witness the rites of Pherekratte although he was uninitiated."
- λ200Λαισποδίας τὴν φύσινa natural Laispodias… Alternatively, according to the dictionary of Ixion, [the headword means someone] of unrestrained sexual appetite, leading him to fuck [spodein] even farm-animals.
- λ179ΛαιθυράζωI scoff… prefix lai, Canones 27.2): 'producing a sound through the mouth against the breast'. Note also the suspiciously similar laiqaru/zein, glossed by Hesychius lambda131 as lamurw=sai, diapra/casqai.
- λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… supposedly prophetic bird. It is therefore said of those deceiving someone with an oath. Sybaris [was] an Athenian colony.
- λ257Λεόντιος μοναχόςLeontios the monk… were distraught at the monstrous actions taken by the emperor against the Church, he said, "One should not be astonished at what is done by a man and one who has obtained his authority …
- λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wicked… the white or the orthios nomos." From the saying 'if someone knows [the difference between] the white and the black'. But some say that Arignotos was a kithara-player who sang the so-called orthios nomos …
- λ357Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοιςis soaked with tears… his house to the people. [Aristophanes] is saying [this] bitterly against Kleon, [meaning] you for your part are self-serving and gain advantage, but the man who is best disposed to the city is soaked …
- λ267ΛέωνLeon, Leo… to accuse them, makes personal accusations whenever he cannot find someone else [to do it], and stockpiles the gold from all the earth to deposit only for his personal wealth, while causing the cities …
- λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… he was killed by dogs, because he turned his savagery against the truth; for in his "Life of Peregrinus" he attacked Christianity and -- the scoundrel --slandered Christ himself. Wherefore he paid sufficient penalty …
- λ834Λύματαfilths, excrements, off-scourings… Gaius Claudius were consuls, the Romans decided to make war against the Tarantines, who were Greek colonists, but dwelled in the edge of Italy, for they insulted their ambassadors in unseemly words and deeds, …