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- λ430Ληϊστόςto be seized as booty[Meaning someone/something] to be acquired as a possession.
- 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].
- λ284Λέπαςcrag… to the rocks, and very hard to yank off when someone wants to get hold of it. Aristophanes is fond of the [word] lepa/s. By insinuation: as a limpet [clings to] the rock, so …
- λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… that the king's fleet was at anchor nearby; he sailed against it and was victorious in the sea-battle, killing everyone including the general Isidoros. Mithridates fled to Tigranes, the king of the Armenians. Lucullus …
- λ200Λαισποδίας τὴν φύσινa natural Laispodias… Alternatively, according to the dictionary of Ixion, [the headword means someone] of unrestrained sexual appetite, leading him to fuck [spodein] even farm-animals.
- λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… supposedly prophetic bird. It is therefore said of those deceiving someone with an oath. Sybaris [was] an Athenian colony.
- λ509Λιγυφθόγγοιςclear-voiced… crickets and long-horned grasshoppers), but by scraping the hind femur against their wing-case; cf. xi 79.
- λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… he was killed by dogs, because he turned his savagery against the truth; for in his "Life of Peregrinus" he attacked Christianity and -- the scoundrel --slandered Christ himself. Wherefore he paid sufficient penalty …
- λ157Λαφύξαςhaving gulped down… somewhere. Its earliest attested appearances are in Gregory of Nazianzus (Against Julian PG 35.661, Carmina quae spectant ad alios PG 37.1487), but the Lexicon on Gregory of Nazianzus glosses the word as "drawing off, …
- λ824ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… with these: for often he ordained that one should guard against avarice. And establishing aristocracy and two kings from among the descendants of Herakles, he laid down that the elders should be ephors; he …
- 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.