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- λ257Λεόντιος μοναχόςLeontios the monk… authority from men, when even Saul who became king by God's vote slew Abimelech and his sons with a sword when they were in the house of the Lord." When the others were puzzled …
- λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, Leonidas… is said, Heracles set aside his body and became a god. And Leonidas, when it was reported that the sun becomes invisible when the Persians shoot their arrows, said 'Let us be of good …
- 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 …
- λ314ΛευιαθάνLeviathan… Lurking in the heart of the earth; [the one] whom [God] pulls in with the fishhook of godhead, which is hidden by the body like some worm.
- λ824ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… he got his laws either from Crete or from the god. The Pythia also addressed him as a god. This man also legislated for physical training for virgins; and that men should not have …
- λ797ΛυκάωνLykaon, Lukaon, Lycaon… just and unjust. And one time, preparing to entertain the god [at dinner] (as he put it), he made a sacrifice. Those present at the sacrifice wanted to know whether they really were going …
- λ322Λευκὴ ἡμέραwhite day[Meaning] a good [one], and [sc. suitable] for festivity. Eupolis in Flatterers [uses the expression]. "Night's dark circle yields to white-horsed day to kindle her light."
- λ289ΛέπρεοςLepreos, Lepreus… a criminal, a gourmet, and a gossip. [Aristophanes writes]: "by god, even without seeing it I abominate Lepreos because of Melanthios."
- λ739ΛώτLot… out the cities because of their sins. But Abraham supplicated [God] not to destroy the righteous with the impious, probably on account of Lot. Now the angels, being in Sodom, received hospitality from Lot. …
- λ584Λιπαρίαperseverance, importuning… importuning. He used to jeer at the attendants of the god, saying that they had got anything out of such protracted importuning."
- λ61Λάκκοςpit… to let oneself down into a pit, this [is] not good.
- λ83ΛάμεχLamech… of the race of the just [ones], since fear of God is an abomination to a sinner. For even the family and the seed of Cain were condemned, but those from Seth were praised. …
- λ276ΛεωσθένηςLeosthenes… 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 on the head in an unguarded …
- λ145ΛατρεύωI worship… I sacrifice, as in "to offer worship to a living god."
- λ323Λευκὴ ἡμέραwhite day, brilliant day[Meaning] the good [kind]. From the proverb speaking "of the things for a quiver". For Phylarchus says that the Scythians, when they were about to lie down to sleep, brought their quiver, and if …
- λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wicked… That is, reviling the wicked becomes an honor of the good. "So if the fellow, who must be the object of many insults, had himself been obvious, I would not have made mention of …
- λ329ΛεύκιοςLucius, Leukios… helped him manage affairs throughout the kingdom. Getting on the good side of everyone in these things and helping and always providing something useful for those who asked, and at the same time using …
- λ265ΛέωνLeon… not.' The Athenian people came to an accord, brought to good order by Leon's clever and timely improvisation. This Leon, when he was trying to keep Philip away from Byzantium, was slandered by Philip …
- λ254ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… he saw that 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 …
- λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… (= SVF 3.24). By "Hellenism" is meant the use of good Greek style and diction which is in accordance with grammar; clarity is an expression (le/cis) easily understandable; brevity is a speech which includes …
- λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, LucianOf Samosata, nicknamed blasphemer or slanderer, or better to say godless, because in his dialogues he ridiculed the things said about the divine. He lived in the time of the Emperor Trajan and later. …
- λ223Λέγειν σὺ δεινόςyou are clever in speaking… I for my part do not listen to you with goodwill because of your ill-will.
- λ633Λίχνοςgluttonous… Pherekratte is probably a slip for the name of the goddess Pherephatte (Persephone); cf. pi 1560, where the same quotation occurs with the reading Pherephatte. If it is not an error it could conceivably …
- λ548Λιμηρῆςhunger-causing… offering, an implement of hunger-causing labor. But [Bitto] said, 'hail goddess, and keep this.'"
- λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… but Rhadamanthys was the first to prohibit oaths by the gods, [ordaining] instead swearing by goose and dog and ram and suchlike. Lampon was a sacrificer, oraclemonger and seer, with whom they also connect …
- λ465Λῆξιςallotment, cessation… buries the dead man, having already rendered to the infernal gods their allotment." And elsewhere: "on the cessation of that period (a cessation which, by Zeus, was hardly fortunate), he hurled himself like a …
- λ356Λείαςbooty, plunder… I despoil. And elsewhere Homer [writes]: "for both cattle and goodly sheep are plunderable". And again: "when the Scythians overran the land of the Romans and took away a lot of plunder, the emperor …