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22 entries for four principal virtues

λ739ΛώτLot… when the men disappeared, as Scripture says, after the remaining four cities were destroyed and after a salt pan was made to exist on the land at the same time. And on the mountain …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ324Λευκὴν μᾶζαν φυρῶ σοιI am mixing you a white barley-cakeA proverb in reference to those promising great things.Matched in headwordhighshort
λ686Λούκιος Σέργιος ΚατιλῖνοςLucius Sergius Catilina… with bibliography. The main sources for the conspiracy are the four Catilinarian speeches by Cicero (at web address 1) and Sallust's Catiline (at web address 2). The present entry draws on John of Antioch …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, Leonidas… Heraclius' army; cf. de Boor (80) and Whitby (50). The four names there, called up from the past, make only a loose chronological and contextual fit with each other: nos.2-4 are Persian-War heroes (for …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ357Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοιςis soaked with tears… of the Attic deme Agryle, prosecuted as one of the Four Hundred after their oligarchic regime at Athens in 411–410 BCE ([Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 833A, 834A, etc.; Lysias 12.67. Whether his …Matched in noteshighshort
λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneself… of escape, escaping by bending himself, so as not to furnish justice". But some [sc. say that] lugi/zein [means] means to question with the punishment of torture. Also the whips with which athletes are …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ620Λιτόςsimple, plain, frugal; supplicatory… Garland of Philip (vol. I, 90-91); (vol. II, 116-117); and further extracts from this epigram at epsilon 777, epsiloniota 197, mu 1172, and nu 36. [2] Greek Anthology 7.18.1-2 (Antipater of Thessalonica), an epitaph …Matched in noteshighshort
λ76Λαλητέοςworthy of mention… historian. The poet seems to use a)/fwnos 'having no voice' virtually as a passive, as lalhte/os, the verbal formed from lale/w clearly is. The verb lale/w (lambda 80) is used in later Greek not …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
λ165ΛαχάρηςLachares… of speech, but handsome and fine in appearance; as to virtue, he deserves to be called a philosopher rather than a sophist. He was an especially pious man, and having lost his sight he …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ684ΛουκιανὸςLucian… to their duty. And this man in fact, showing every virtue befitting a ruler to his subjects, became famous for his justice and wisdom and everything that is an ornament to rulers, as he …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ249ΛεοννάτοςLeonnatos, Leonnatus… brought up with Alexander, and a sharer in esteem by virtue of the appropriateness of his upbringing and his family and for both the size and the beauty of his body. Even while Alexander …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ792Λύθροςgore… Gow and Page, vol. I (249); vol. II (670-671); and further excerpts from this epigram at epsilon 1124, epsilon 1390, and theta 497.Matched in noteshighshort
λ685ΛουκιανὸςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… much effort into the correction of the holy books. And furthermore one can find that he guarded the purity of the divine doctrines to the greatest degree among his contemporaries. For he also published …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ384Λειποναῦταιnavy-deserters… offense was prosecuted in Athens by a graphe l(e)iponautiou. See further Hamel (art.cit. below). [1] The quotation is unidentifiable, so it is not clear what event is being referred to, or who 'they' are. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ389Λειποστράτιονarmy-abandoning, lipostration… Lexica Segueriana 276.33; and a scholion to Thucydides 1.99.1. See further Hamel (below).Matched in noteshighshort
λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… theta 418 (and more on Lampon at kappa 2595). For further material on these and other aspects of the line see Dunbar (below) 357-8.Matched in noteshighshort
λ772Λύγισμαsprain… as well as in Dioscorides Pedanius and others; but see further, next note. [1] cf. iota 83, where i)/gdisma (sic: "pounding; a dance in which the loins were moved like a pestle": LSJ s.v. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ254ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… the child was not giving indications of good hope for virtue, by prayer (so they say) he caused him to die while still a boy, as he judged that it was best to end …Matched in translationhighlong
λ329ΛεύκιοςLucius, Leukios… Livy 1.34 (web address 1). [3] Ancus Marcius, the legendary fourth king of Rome (640-617 trad.).Matched in noteshighmedium
λ797ΛυκάωνLykaon, Lukaon, Lycaon… Damascus FGrH 90 F38 (preserved in Constantinus VII Porphyrogenitus, On Virtues and Vices 1.340). In this version the impiety of Lykaon's people is emphasized; in other versions Lykaon himself is the impious figure and …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ646ΛογγῖνοςLonginus… probably a separate fragment included so as to provide a further instance of his wicked behavior.Matched in noteshighmedium