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λ297Λεπτολογίαsubtle argument… you [priest] of the thinnest foolishnesses." That is, of the most intelligent and most obscure discourses."Matched in translationhighshort
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… for making a mark on surfaces that are not white, most commentators take it as referring to a bare line, untreated with the customary red or black powder (cf. Moeris 202.24; scholion to Homer, …Matched in noteshighshort
λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… of the Armenians. Lucullus waged war on Tigranes too, capturing most of his cities and laying siege to [sc. the capital] Tigranocerta. Observing the Roman [army] and calculating that it was easy to count, …

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Λεπτολογία

subtle argument

"He did not devote himself to subtle argument or extend his discourses." Philostratus the Lemnian writes [this] about Apollonius. Hermippos in Demesmen [sc. also uses the word.] "I am already seeking to chop logic, and…

Λεπτολογία. οὐδὲ λεπτολογίᾳ ἐδίδου οὐδὲ διῆγε τοὺς λόγους. περὶ Ἀπολλωνίου γράφει Φιλόστρατος ὁ Λήμνιος. Ἕρμιππος Δημόταις. λεπτολογεῖν ἤδη ζητῶ, καὶ περὶ καπνοῦ στενολεσχεῖν.…

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λ267ΛέωνLeon, Leo… reign, with bibliography. See Blockley [below] for another translation of most of this entry (vol. 2: 409 & 411) and for a brief discussion of the Suda's use of Malchus (vol. 1: 125), who …Matched in noteshighmedium

λ441Λῆμαwillcf. lambda 445. This entry mostly succeeds in distinguishing lh=ma and lh=mma; lambda 443 does less well. [1] Same glossing, variously, in other lexica (and scholia). The gloss ke/rdos is more appropriate to lh=mma: …Matched in noteshighmedium

λ594ΛίποιμιI might leave… lei/pw, first person singular. It must be quoted from somewhere; most probably from Plato, Apology 29A (web address 1), a passage quoted by Stobaeus, though other extant possibilities include Euripides and Callimachus.Matched in noteshighshort

λ793Λυκάβαςtwelvemonth, lykabas, lycabas, lukabas, light-course, wolf-gang… 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 on these passages, and focuses on explaining the etymology of the …Matched in noteshighshort