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λ585Λιπαροκρήδεμνοςbright-veiled… a valuable veil. "Bright-veiled Charis — if we may quote Homer — wrought you with her own hands."Matched in translationhighshort
λ114Λάπαθονpitfall; dock, monk's rhubarb, sorrel… Hence also [comes] the [verb] lapa/cai, [meaning] to make empty. Homer [writes]: "he drained the ranks of the young men". Meaning he emptied [them] by ravaging.Matched in translationhighshort
λ237Λέλακαςyou have cried out… by Euripides (web address 1). See also lambda 432. [1] Homer, Iliad 20.277 (web address 2). [2] Homer, Iliad 13.616 (web address 3). [3] Homer, Odyssey 12.85 (web address 4), about Scylla (sigma 709).Matched in noteshighshort
λ173Λάψοντεςintending to lapThe headword -- quoted from Homer: see n.1 below -- is the future participle of la/ptw (lambda 119, and cf. lambda 172), masculine nominative plural. [1] Blood-sated wolves, in this simile from Homer, Iliad …Matched in noteshighshort
λ395Λειριόεσσαlily-like… or similarly in other lexica, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 3.152, where the feminine headword -- accusative there -- describes the sound of a cicada (web address 1). See also lambda 394.Matched in noteshighshort
λ89Λαμπετόωντιgleaming, shining… in the dative singular, applied to fire in a simile: Homer, Iliad 1.104 (web address 1) with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort
λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneself… is a fibrous plant. "He bound [them] with pliant withies." Homer [sc. says this]. And Plato in Gorgias [says]: "[competent at] turning about in all twists, going through all means of escape, escaping by …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ338Λευκώλενοςpale-shouldered, white-shouldered… references at Photius lambda226 Theodoridis), and in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.55 (the first of many appearances of this headword as an epithet of Hera). cf. under omega 65.Matched in noteshighshort
λ793Λυκάβαςtwelvemonth, lykabas, lycabas, lukabas, light-course, wolf-gang… of a noun that occurs in the genitive twice in Homer's Odyssey: 14.161 (web address 1) and 19.306 (web address 2). Most if not all of the material in the entry derives from commentary …Matched in noteshighshort
λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breastHomer, Iliad 22.83 (where this phrase in the accusative case occurs in what Hecuba says to her son Hector: web address 1), and scholion on this verse. cf. lambda 43.Matched in noteshighshort
λ394Λειριόενταlily-likeLikewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (see the references at Photius lambda152 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 3.152, where leirio/essan is applied figuratively to the sound of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ38Λάϊνον ἕσο χιτῶναyou would have put on a shirt of stoneHomer, Iliad 3.57 (web address 1), with the gloss of the scholia there. The verb should be spelled e(/sso. cf. lambda 518 and other cross-references there.Matched in noteshighshort
λ168Λάχνηdown, fuzzy hair, nap, pile… lambda127 Theodoridis. The headword is regarded as being extracted from Homer, Iliad: 10.134 according to Latte (on Hesychius lambda455); 2.219 according to Theodoridis. See also lambda 169.Matched in noteshighshort
λ422Ληϊβότειραcrop-consuming… Ambrosian Lexicon, according to Adler; cf. also a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 18.29, where the genitive occurs as an epithet of a sow in a simile (web address 1); and Hesychius lambda818. [2] Also …Matched in noteshighshort
λ598Λίςlion… similar glossing in other lexica and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 17.109, where the word occurs in a simile (web address 1). Chantraine says that the word may have been borrowed independently into …Matched in noteshighshort
λ599Λισσάδας πέτραςbare rocks… extracted from the quotation given. [1] cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 5.412, where a singular lissh\ ... pe/trh occurs; and see also lambda 600. [2] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort
λ757Λοιμόςplague, pestilence… ps.-Herodian, Epimerismi 80, which is probably behind Eustathius' comments on Homer, Iliad 1.67 (1.80). fqoreu/s seems an oddly personal word to use as a gloss (nouns in -eus generally denote personal agents), but ps.-Herodian …Matched in noteshighshort
λ254ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… a Mysian of those who live by the Ister, whom Homer calls hand-to-hand fighters. The heretical Philostorgius associates this Leontios with himself in his book as following his Arian heresy. [Leontios] had one son. …Matched in translationhighlong
λ509Λιγυφθόγγοιςclear-voiced[1] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.50, where this dative plural occurs (of heralds). [2] Greek Anthology 7.192.1-2 (Mnasalces), on an a)kri/s that has died; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 143), (vol. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ792Λύθροςgore… references at Photius lambda442 Theodoridis), and cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 20.503, where the dative case of the headword occurs. [2] Greek Anthology 6.163.7-8 (Meleager [Author, Myth]), Ares objects to the presence of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ126Λαρόνpleasant… the references at Photius lambda101 Theodoridis), and in scholia on Homer, Iliad 17.572 and 19.316; cf. also lambda 129. [2] Greek Anthology 7.24.9-10, in the collection of Epigrams attributed to the lyric poet Simonides …Matched in noteshighshort
λ171Λαχώνhaving obtained… also lambda 167, lambda 170. [1] From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 5.40, where the headword (aorist active participle of lagxa/nw, masculine nominative singular) occurs. [2] Aristophanes, Knights 258, with comment from the scholia …Matched in noteshighshort
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… customary red or black powder (cf. Moeris 202.24; scholion to Homer, Iliad 15.10; scholion to Plato loc.cit.). Perhaps most of the commentary is generated by changing fashions in line-chalking that rendered Plato's phrase ambiguous …Matched in noteshighshort
λ742Λωτόςlotus, lotos… Synagoge, Photius lambda506 Theodoridis (with other references). From commentary on Homer, Odyssey 9.84, in reference to the Lotus-eaters encountered by Odysseus; cf. the scholia thereto. The term was used of a wide variety of …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ33Λάγυνοςflask, flagon… born in the sea off Cyprus (kappa 2738). See the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. [2] An Homeric formula (delta 128). [3] This unparalleled and enigmatic expression seems (according to Gow and Page, 2. 178) …Matched in noteshighshort
λ467Ληρεῖςyou are babbling… is the figura etymologica, which was common in Greek, particularly Homeric Greek.Matched in noteshighmedium
λ183Λαῖλαψstorm[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (and several Homeric scholia); see the references at Photius lambda29 Theodoridis. [2] A lightly truncated account of the Roman military commander Heraclius's attack on the Persian district …Matched in noteshighshort

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