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λ86ΛαμπάδιονtorchletWhat they now call a torch. So Dinarchus and Plato [sc. use the term].Matched in translationhighshort
λ841Λυόμενοςreleasing, being releasedMeaning ransoming and dismissing. So Plato [sc. uses the word].Matched in translationhighshort
λ414Λήθηforgetfulness… of divine [lore], for the old age of forgetfulness, as Plato said, leaving commentaries for himself and storing up treasures."Matched in translationhighshort
λ856Λύσῃshould releaseMeaning let him release. [It occurs in book] 9 of [Plato's] Laws. "The owner takes him, bound, from the man struck, and should not release him until the slave can persuade the man struck …Matched in translationhighshort
λ519Λιθολόγοιmasons… which literally means pickers-out of stone(s), is quoted here from Plato, Laws 858B, where it appears in the dative plural (web address 1); cf. the scholia there; also Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and other lexica …Matched in noteshighshort
λ659Λογοτόποςsummary syllogism… [is] a combination of both, as for example in "if Plato is alive, Plato is breathing; but the first [is true], therefore the second [is true]". The summary syllogism was introduced in order that, …Matched in translationhighshort
λ722Λωβᾶταιoutrages… Photius lambda497 Theodoridis -- to which may be added Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 994b21: this last strongly suggests that the headword -- third person singular, present indicative, of lwba/omai -- is quoted from Plato, Crito …Matched in noteshighshort
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line= Pausanias the Atticist lambda14; cf. Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 994a17; a scholion to Plato, Charmides 154B [see below]; Aelius Dionysius lambda8, Hesychius lambda789, Photius lambda220 Theodoridis, Zenobius 4.89, [Diogenianus] 6.8, Gregorius 2.67 Apostolius 10.64. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ244Λέμμαhusk, rind… references at Photius lambda179 Theodoridis) and in the scholia to Plato, Timaeus 76A (where the headword occurs: web address 1). For the headword cf. under alpha 3379.Matched in noteshighshort
λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneself… 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 bending himself, so as not …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ661Λόγοισιν Ἑρμόδωρος ἐμπορεύεταιHermodoros is a shipper in speechesHermodoros became a student of Plato, took his collected works and was selling them in Sicily.Matched in translationhighshort
λ594ΛίποιμιI might leave… 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
λ691ΛούπερκοςLupercus… the Word taw/s; On the Shrimp; On the Cock in Plato; The Foundation of Arsinoe in Egypt; Attic Diction; Art of Grammar; On the Masculine, Feminine and Neuter Genders (13 books), in which he …Matched in translationhighshort
λ874Λυττῶντεςraging… earlier Hesychius lambda1471 has accusative(s), which might point to (e.g.) Plato, Republic 586C. cf. generally lambda 851, lambda 854, lambda 869.Matched in noteshighshort
λ135Λασιόκωφοςhairy-mute… (see the references at Photius lambda110 Theodoridis), as if from Plato, Phaedrus 253E, but in fact it is a false reading of two separate words: see web address 1. [1] By dint of being …Matched in noteshighshort
λ265ΛέωνLeon… Leon; of Byzantium, Peripatetic philosopher and sophist. A pupil of Plato or, as some [say], of Aristotle. He wrote about the reign of Philip and Byzantium in 7 books; Teuthranticus; On Besaeus; The Sacred …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ819Λυκόστομοςwolf-mouth… Polybius 7.13.7 -- abridged: he attributes 'the Arcadian story' to Plato (Republic 565D) -- on Philip V of Macedon (phi 355).Matched in noteshighshort
λ833Λύματαlumata… Theodoridis connects it there to e)ne/xura lu/sima "redeemable pledges" in Plato, Laws 820E. (The word occurs in Photius near to where, alphabetically, lu/sima would occur, which might suggest it was originally a gloss on …Matched in noteshighshort
λ310Λεσχηνείαgossip… See also omicron 343. [1] Rare word, quoted perhaps from [Plato], Axiochus 369D (where it appears in the genitive case). [2] Manuscripts of the Suda read lesxhno/ths or lesxhni/ths, but on the basis of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ528Λίθων ποτίμωνof drinking stones, of porous stonesSame entry in Photius lambda306 Theodoridis. [1] Plato, Laws 12.947D (on the construction of a tomb for a Scrutineer), where in fact the reading is in doubt: poti/mwn, as here (and in Photius), or …Matched in noteshighshort
λ170Λάχοςportion, lot… glossing of 'portion' with 'part', Adler notes that Ruhnken adduced Plato, Laws 5.745D. [3] Quotation (in which, with Kuster, one should read genitive sfai/ras for the transmitted sfai/ra; cf. Crusius in his edition of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ823ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… lambda 824. The present material comes from the scholia to Plato, Republic 599D (where L. is mentioned). [1] 58 in the scholion (and 8 in some of the Suda mss). [2] That L. was …Matched in noteshighshort
λ692Λουτράbaths… 'to be borne down along the current' was proverbial: see Plato, Republic 492C, and the paroemiographers (e.g. Gregorius 2.87, Apostolius 9.59).Matched in noteshighshort
λ193Λαιόνleft… De natura animalium 7.8.21; Appian, Libyca 177; Albinus, Epitome doctrinae platonicae 18.1; and see lambda 672) is feminine, implying the noun xei/r 'hand'. In the present instance it is neuter; cf. Hesychius lambda146 and …Matched in noteshighshort

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