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λ124Λάρκοςcharcoal-scuttle… something of wickerwork, basket-like or mat-like, in which coals are carried. "This charcoal-scuttle is my [fellow-]demesman." "Out of fear the scuttle squirted me thoroughly with coal dust just as cuttlefish do ink." For when …Matched in translationhighshort
λ526Λιθουργικὴstone-working… Lysias in the [speech] In reply to Nausias, concerning the carving [writes]: "[...] but because there are three skills in the work, stone-working and stone-polishing and, in addition, creating the luxury".Matched in translationhighshort
λ525Λιθουργόςstone-worker[Meaning] stone-carver/stone-cutter.Matched in translationhighshort
λ91Λαμπήνηcoach… a royal/imperial wagon; a famous [?]rhedion, which is a covered chariot.Matched in translationhighshort
λ768Λύγδιναmarble-white… an encircling girdle." In the Epigrams. And elsewhere: "as if carved of white marble, laden with maidenly delights". White marble is a kind of stone. And elsewhere: "a certain man was trying to sell …Matched in translationhighshort
λ226Λέαιναlioness… On the handles of kitchen-knives ivory lions used to be carved. So he is saying: I will not assume the position of a whore for a man, like a lioness on a cheesegrater. The …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ636Λογάδηνpicked… select. Thucydides [writes]: "not having stone-working tools of iron but carrying stones picked, they fitted each one at random." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'picked stones'. "Created from picked stones." That is, from …Matched in translationhighshort
λ87Λαμπάδιον περὶ τὸ σφυρόνlint-bandage round the ankle… while leaping over a trench". "The emperor Trajan used to care for those who had been wounded in war. With the lack of outer bandages he did not even spare his own clothing, but …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ64Λακωνικαὶ κλεῖδεςLakonian keys, Laconian keys… Aristophanes [mentions them]; they are famous. "For the husbands now carry secret keys, most ill-natured ones, certain Lakonian ones, with [three] teeth. So previously it was possible, for women who had had a three-obol …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… 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. The locus classicus for …Matched in noteshighshort
λ496ΛιβυρνικαίLiburnics, Liburnians… people of the northern Adriatic coast (present-day Croatia). LSJ s.v. characterizes the ship-type as "a lift, swift vessel, felucca"; and cf. L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1995) …Matched in noteshighshort