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- λ28Λαγῷ πεινῶντι καὶ πλακοῦντες εἰς σῦκαfor a starving hare even flatcakes [serve] as figsA proverb directed against those reckoning things as valuable in [a situation of] necessity. Interpretation of a dream: a hare appearing makes an unlucky path [of life].
- λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… is a logos too. Aristophanes [writes]: "provide Euripides with a plot, and it becomes a tragedy". Search for Chrysippus' "abominable discourses" in the "Chrysippus" [entry].
- λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… hardships. For during the Peloponnesian War the Athenians dispatched Nikias against everyone and laid siege to them so strenuously as to make them perish by starvation. And in the first year Nikias brought Melos …
- λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… where a white line, chalked or unchalked, would be useless against a white background. For other applications of the phrase see Libanius, Epistles 481.2; Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's De caelo 7.404. [1] Sophocles fr. …
- λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… of the play are balancing the merits of Aeschylus' style against those of Euripides, and the phrase is applied by them to Euripides in a witty pastiche of his style, simultaneously a critique of …
- λ178Λαίθαργοςsecretly-biting… to be sure, pretend to be well disposed but are plotting in secret.