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λ3Λαβαῖςwith handles[Meaning] with touchings, or with pretexts, or with blame. But [sc. also also attested is the phrase] "bi-mouthed handles", [meaning] the ears of the mixing-bowl, or those which have openings on both sides; or …highmedium
λ13Λαγαρόνslack, flat[Meaning something] rather hollow. "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 …highshort
λ15Λάγειον αἷμαhare's bloodThat of a hare.highshort
λ23Λαγόνοςflank, hollow[no gloss]highshort
λ35Λάεινto see[Meaning] to look. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)lao/s ["unseeing"], [meaning] a blind man.highshort
λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breast[The one] creating forgetfulness of pain in the child.highshort
λ59Λακκόπρωκτοςpit-arse, tank-arseAristophanes [writes]: "you pit-arse. [--] Sprinkle me, sprinkle me with lots of roses. Don't you know that I like to have plenty of things said about me, even bad things?"highshort
λ70ΛακρατίδηςLakratides, Lacratides; LakrateidesThis man [was] an archon in Athens long ago. He held office in the era of Dareios, at a time when there was a heavy fall of snow and everything froze up, preventing anyone …highshort
λ71ΛάκτινpestleWhat they call a stirrer, a ladle, which is [to say] a soup-ladle. "Well-made pestle".highshort
λ74Λαλάγημαbabbling, prattling[Meaning an] utterance, sound. "To you a holy refuge -- as a thank-offering for my life -- and a babbling [...] I dedicate."highshort
λ85ΛάμιαlamiaA [sc. kind of] wild beast. [So called] from having a large neck [laimos], [i.e.] laimia and lamia. Aristophanes [writes]: "he had the smell of a seal, and lamia's unwashed testicles." For the testicles …highshort
λ87Λαμπάδιον περὶ τὸ σφυρόνlint-bandage round the ankleSome [sc. explain this as] a light glove, some as a kind of outer bandage, some as the doctors' splint [for] putting the ankle in a splint, some as field-plasters. Aristophanes [writes]: "a lint-bandage …highmedium
λ113Λαμπαδεύεσθαιto act as a torch-bearer"So Aristogenes, an initiate of Dionysus, as he was about to act as a torch-bearer, then went limp in the right-hand portions [sc. of his body]."highshort
λ121Λαρινοὶ βόεςLarinian oxen, fatted oxen[Meaning] the ones from Epirus, [named] after Larinus the oxherd who stole the oxen of Heracles -- as Lykos of Rhegion [states] -- when [Heracles] brought the oxen of Geriones. But Proxenos [says] that …highmedium
λ130Λαρυγγίζεινto croak[Meaning] broadening the voice and not speaking naturally, but seeking to use the larynx rather laboriously. Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] "they croak," [meaning] they …highshort
λ131ΛαρυγγιῶI will throttleI will shout down the other orators, he is saying; or I will cut out the pharynx and I will silence the orators. For when the pharynx has been cut, one cannot project one's …highshort
λ132Λάρυγξlarynx[Genitive] la/ruggos. But the majority write fa/rugc, fa/ruggos.highshort
λ135Λασιόκωφοςhairy-mute[Meaning] one who is excessively mute; e.g. having hairy ears, resulting in deafness and sense-deprivation.highshort
λ136Λάσιοιshaggy[Meaning those who are] very hairy, or intelligent.highshort
λ141Λάσταυροςeffeminate, nancy-boy[A term for] a male whore, hairy in the rump, someone being shaggy-arsed; he who is hairy in the arse. "If any amongst the Greeks or the non-Greeks [was] an effeminate in his ways, …highshort
λ151Λαυκανίηgullet[Meaning] the throat.highshort
λ165ΛαχάρηςLacharesSon of Lachares; of Athens. Sophist. A pupil of Heracleon of Athens; he taught many pupils, among whom Eustephius, Nicolaus and Asterius are well-known. Floruit under the emperors Marcianus and Leon. He wrote On …highmedium
λ168Λάχνηdown, fuzzy hair, nap, pile[Meaning] hairiness. [The expression] is also used of the sea's foam.highshort
λ174Λαιάleft [hand][Meaning the] better [one], or [a] stunted [one].highshort
λ191Λαιμώρηdewlap[laimu/rh means the same as] lamuri/s.highshort
λ200Λαισποδίας τὴν φύσινa natural LaispodiasMeaning that he has a diseased shin. For Laispodias and Damasias used to be ridiculed for being bad-shinned. Thucydides in [book] 8 says that this Laispodias was also a general. He was also litigious. …highshort
λ214ΛεβηναῖονLebenaion, Lebenaeum[Meaning] a shrine [of that name].highshort
λ218Λεβηρίςslough, cast skin[Meaning] the skin which a snake sheds. And [sc. there is] a proverb: "blinder than a cast skin and a peg." It is a kind of bird, fleshless and thin. Otherwise [sc. the reading …highshort
λ232Λεκάνιαdishes[lekania and lekanides]:[meaning] the larger, flat kind of saucers. "And give me a little dish of hare's flesh". And Aristophanes [also writes]: "give me a dish". "See, the evil is spreading: give me a …highshort
λ244Λέμμαhusk, rind[Meaning] peel.highshort