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19 entries for Cocles, One-Eyed

λ294Λεπτὴν πλέκειhe is weaving a thin oneSomething said in reference to poor people. In effect frugal, narrow, weak. Hence also [sc. comes the term] leptolo/gos ["quibbler"]. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "and having relaxed your subtle mind speculate about the matters …Matched in headwordhighshort
λ410Λήθαργος κύωνlazy dog, lethargic dog[Meaning] one which fawns, but bites surreptitiously. With horses too, the careless and feeble and idle ones are called lazy/lethargic. There is also a particular [sc. medical] condition, with fever, [sc. called lethargy].Matched in translationhighshort
λ323Λευκὴ ἡμέραwhite day, brilliant day… [they had passed the day] troublesomely, [they dropped] a black one. Accordingly, in the case of men who were dying, they brought out their quivers and counted the pebbles; and if many white ones …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ450Λημνίᾳ χειρίwith a Lemnian hand[Meaning] with a cruel and lawless [one]. From the story: for they say that the women in Lemnos were accused of killing their husbands, because they were not having sexual intercourse with them.Matched in translationhighshort
λ566Λίνον λίνῳ συνάπτειςyou are joining linen with linen… you not...?' That version is reckoned to be the authentic one, though the paroemiographers preferred this one. For 'linen' (or flax) cf. generally lambda 561, lambda 564, lambda 571, lambda 572.Matched in noteshighshort
λ178Λαίθαργοςsecretly-biting[Meaning one who is] biting for hire. "You wag your tail while biting, and you are a secretly-biting bitch." A proverb applying to people who, to be sure, pretend to be well disposed but …Matched in translationhighshort
λ494Λιβυκὸν θηρίονLibyan beasti.e. a degenerated one. For they say that Libya has many beasts but is waterless, and when all kinds [of animals] come together at a single drinking-place the result is that they copulate with …Matched in translationhighshort
λ787Λυδὸς ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ παίζειa Lydian is playing at noon… urges with their own hands. This proverb [is] like the [one that goes] "a goatherd in the heat". Because at such times goatherds are licentious.Matched in translationhighshort
λ451Λήμνιον κακὸν βλέπωνlooking a Lemnian evil[Meaning] a fiery [one]. Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: 'Lemnian evil'. For after the Lemnian men had abducted women from Athens and gotten children from them, they slaughtered the women together with the …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ845Λυπηρότεροι σταλαγμοῦmore vexing than a drool… is masculine plural there (and here) but neuter singular in one of the paroemiographers (Arsenius 10.93a, with same gloss).Matched in noteshighshort
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… quoted below, is Plato, Charmides 154B (web address 1). While one might suppose that the phrase refers to a line dusted with white chalk, and hence potentially good for making a mark on surfaces …Matched in noteshighshort
λ860ΛυσικράτηςLysikrates, Lysicrates… certainty that L. the corrupt and L. the vain are one and the same. (The name is common: 45 listings in LGPN ii.) One would also have wished for some corroborating evidence for the …Matched in noteshighshort
λ128Λάρος ἐν ἕλεσιa gull in the marshes… Theodoridis gives the phrase as 'a gull in Nemesis', which one might have thought the preferable lectio difficilior, but Theodoridis, while printing it, mentions Dindorf's rejection of it; also Dobree's suggestion that it is …Matched in noteshighshort
λ302Λέρνη θεατῶνLerna of spectators, Lerne of spectatorsSame entry in Photius, Lexicon lambda204 Theodoridis; similar one in Hesychius lambda689 and lambda 690, Pausanias the Atticist lambda11, a scholion to Lucian, Marine Dialogues 8.2, Zenobius 4.86 and other paroemiographers (Apostolius 10.57, [Diogenianus] …Matched in noteshighshort
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… out. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'smooth tongue', as one that has been rubbed. The Athenians, too, are called as an epithet smooths, because they are, being boatmen and sitting constantly at rowing, …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ775Λυγκέως ὀξυωπέστερον βλέπεινto see more sharp-sightedly than LynkeusThis man was a brother of Idas; but Aristophanes in Danaids [makes him] a son of Aigyptos. He was the sharpest-eyed by such a long way that he was able to see, through a …Matched in translationhighshort
λ867Λύσιοι τελεταίdeliverance rites, deliverance rituals… of that name, though Jacoby does not list this as one of his [FGrH 379] fragments; instead the material has been attributed to Aristophanes of Byzantium (Paroemiae fr.10 Nauck).Matched in noteshighshort
λ692Λουτράbaths… or something is missing from the middle of a single one. Neither element constitutes a complete sentence but they can perhaps be associated in sense. If the material is from an (unidentifiable) account of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… Thucydides 5.84.2. [4] i.e. a "Melian starvation" means an enormous one. [5] Melos is, rather, an island in the Cyclades. The Suda has confused it with the region of central Greece, just south of …Matched in noteshighmedium