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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
λ634Λοβόςlobe[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 14.182. [2] cf. Hesychius lambda1187. [3] Likewise, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. [4] Similarly in …Matched in noteshighmedium
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
λ697Λοφεῖονcrest-case… with three ridges, each of which could hold a crest (Homer, Iliad 11.41-43), though there is no sign that he knew the epic directly. [3] A properispomenon word has a circumflex accent over the …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