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- λ822Λύκου πτεράwolf's feathers… features in the background material (about wolves and oxen) in Apostolius 10.80.
- λ127Λάρος κεχηνώςa gull agapeAristophanes, Knights 956, with scholion; cf. Apostolius 10.46. The allusion is to the political greed of Kleon (kappa 1731). For proverbial gulls see also lambda 128.
- λ128Λάρος ἐν ἕλεσιa gull in the marshesLikewise Apostolius 10.48. Photius, Lexicon lambda103 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; …
- λ817Λύκος περὶ φρέαρ χορεύειa wolf is dancing round a wellLikewise in Photius lambda453 Theodoridis; also in Apostolius 10.86, etc. For another proverb about dancing see gamma 432.
- λ494Λιβυκὸν θηρίονLibyan beastThe headword phrase was (or became) proverbial: cf. Apostolius 10.75. Hesychius lambda947 has a briefer entry: "since [there are] deadly reptiles there, and as Libya has such beasts. Also [means he who is] of …
- λ811Λύκον εἶδεςyou saw a wolf[1] cf. Apostolius 10.89 and other paroemiographers, and the scholia to Theocritus (see next note). [2] Theocritus, Idylls 14.22 -- where in fact these words are interrogative: 'Would you not speak? Did you see …
- λ8Λάβραξbass… For 'Milesian basses' as a byword/proverb, applying to gluttons, see Apostolius 10.38; and for Miletus itself cf. mu 1060. [1] Etymologically 'grabby', thus greedy, a sense present in a couple of the associated terms, …