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- λ780Λύγοςwithy… were accustomed amongst themselves to make a journey in wintertime. Having bound discs [made] out of withies on their feet, they themselves proceeded safely across the snow, compressed [sc. as it was] by the …
- λ797ΛυκάωνLykaon, Lukaon, Lycaon… entertain the god [at dinner] (as he put it), he made a sacrifice. Those present at the sacrifice wanted to know whether they really were going to having a god as their guest; and, …
- λ807ΛυκιουργίςLykian-ware, Lycian-wareDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Timotheos uses the expression. Didymos asserts that the bowls manufactured by Lykios the son of Myron were referred to in this way. But the grammarian seems to be unaware …
- λ84ΛαμίαLamia… their freedom, and defeated Antipater. Menander in Man-Woman [writes]: "for having filled [?] from various parts of the battle-line he destroyed all the [?] at Lamia".
- λ64Λακωνικαὶ κλεῖδεςLakonian keys, Laconian keys… was possible, for women who had had a three-obol seal-ring made, to open the door. But now this man [Euripides] has taught them to have [seals] made of worm-eaten wood hanging from their belts". …
- λ329ΛεύκιοςLucius, Leukios… "son of Demaratus the Corinthian. This man marched into Rome having confidence in himself and his money, convinced that he would have a position second to none in the state on account of certain …
- λ264ΛεώκριτοςLeokritos, Leocritus… and for being an alien and a toady. Mention was made of the two of them as being like-minded. Or because Kinesias was slender, and [K]leokritos a scoundrel. So he is saying that if …
- λ739ΛώτLot… four cities were destroyed and after a salt pan was made to exist on the land at the same time. And on the mountain after he was made drunk he had sex with his …
- λ645ΛογγῖνοςLonginus… of the Caesar Aurelian, and was executed by him for having conspired with Zenobia, the wife of Odymnathus. He wrote: On the Natural Life; Difficulties in Homer; Whether Homer is a Philosopher; Homeric Problems …
- λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wicked… many insults, had himself been obvious, I would not have made mention of a [man who is a] friend; but as it is, everybody knows Arignotos, whoever knows either the white or the orthios …
- λ165ΛαχάρηςLachares… than a sophist. He was an especially pious man, and having lost his sight he regained it.
- λ438Λήκυθονlekythos, oil-flask… not persuaded. [So says] Aristophanes in Birds. Zeno of Citium made a hollow lid for his lekythos and carried about a coin [in it], a handy payment for necessities, so that [Krates] would have …
- λ3Λαβαῖςwith handles… the Persian and ate his flesh, but the bones he made into handles of knives. And elsewhere: "handles of philosophy", [i.e.] arithmetic and geometry.
- λ465Λῆξιςallotment, cessation… portion, inheritance. Aelian [writes]: "and he buries the dead man, having already rendered to the infernal gods their allotment." And elsewhere: "on the cessation of that period (a cessation which, by Zeus, was hardly …
- λ447Λήμηblear, rheum, sleep-crust… the eyes by resting on them. So [the passage] means having blinded minds, just as those who have the bleariness of people suffering from eye disease are prevented from seeing things. Also [sc. attested …
- λ648Λογισμόςcalculation, account… by a reckoning [thereof]. [For] calculation/account also [means] reckoning. "He made a calculation of the crowd." And Euripides [writes]: "for justice has no reason for two to argue." That is, contending has no excuse.
- λ742Λωτόςlotus, lotos… musical instrument in question was so called because it was made from a stalk of one of the plants called lotus, although in the second quotation below an instrument made of horn seems to …
- λ367Λεῖξαιlixae, camp-followers, sutlers… tribune or a general, because people didn't know that they made their profit by any means, justly and unjustly. So being unhindered, they would think up every sort of evil, and would make use …
- λ685ΛουκιανὸςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… on the sacred books, and in a short time [Lucian] made his own whatever excellence this man had. And he entered into monastic life and reached the standard of every human excellence. He also …
- λ491ΛίβερνοςLibernos, Libernus… Libernus, and erected an altar there; from this Vergil too made his beginning.
- λ686Λούκιος Σέργιος ΚατιλῖνοςLucius Sergius Catilina… disposition, and he conspired for the destruction of his fatherland, having bound in loyalty to himself the most rash and venturesome of the patricians. It is said that, after he sacrificed a man, the …
- λ83ΛάμεχLamech… this that he might not see such a death, and having been heard he was taken away. But Enoch was [a descendant] of the righteous Seth, from whom Christ was descended, as his genealogy …
- λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… men that after the engagement they laughed at themselves for having employed arms against such slaves. And Livy said that he was astonished by this battle, for he says that the Roman had never …
- λ470Λῆροςdementia, delirium… not as transparent, and moreover when the fluids inside are made drier by time, congealed, and unable to transport the sensations of perceptions through the optic nerve — that is when it happens that …
- λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, Leonidas… with the three hundred, resisted Xerxes around Sphakteria (sic). And having acquitted himself nobly he died, when he was surrounded because of treachery; because a certain Ephialtes showed the road through the openings to …
- λ249ΛεοννάτοςLeonnatos, Leonnatus… (e(tai=roi) were an élite cavalry company of the Macedonian army, made up of noblemen. See Malcolm Errington in OCD (4) s.v. "hetairoi".
- λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… 'on account of' + the genitive of a noun phrase, made up of a noun acting for the verb and an adjective for the adverb ("on account of incessant sitting at…"), itself governing e)pi\ …