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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 …
- λ591Λιποτάκτηςdeserter, post-deserter… Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] leipotakth/sas, [meaning someone] having abandoned, having fled.
- λ28Λαγῷ πεινῶντι καὶ πλακοῦντες εἰς σῦκαfor a starving hare even flatcakes [serve] as figsA proverb directed against those reckoning things as valuable in [a situation of] necessity. Interpretation of a dream: a hare appearing makes an unlucky path [of life].
- 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 …
- λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… that the king's fleet was at anchor nearby; he sailed against it and was victorious in the sea-battle, killing everyone including the general Isidoros. Mithridates fled to Tigranes, the king of the Armenians. Lucullus …
- λ95Λαμπρὰν ἡμέρανbright dayA correction in someone's usage, here quoted. (For the contiguity of the two terms cf. under epsilon 3361.) The case of the headword phrase is accusative singular (of the base introduced in lambda 94). …
- 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."
- λ13Λαγαρόνslack, flat… "But they contrived [defenses] that by slackness or simplicity sufficed against the archers." And in the Epigrams: "and the skin hangs slack on my neck." And elsewhere: "because for you over [the] kindling a …
- λ509Λιγυφθόγγοιςclear-voiced… crickets and long-horned grasshoppers), but by scraping the hind femur against their wing-case; cf. xi 79.
- 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 …
- λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… where a white line, chalked or unchalked, would be useless against a white background. For other applications of the phrase see Libanius, Epistles 481.2; Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's De caelo 7.404. [1] Sophocles fr. …
- λ178Λαίθαργοςsecretly-biting… to be sure, pretend to be well disposed but are plotting in secret.