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λ35Λάεινto see[Meaning] to look. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)lao/s ["unseeing"], [meaning] a blind man.highshort
λ36Λάειος φόνοςLaian murderThat of Laios.highshort
λ37Λάϊγγεςpebbles[Meaning] small stones.highshort
λ38Λάϊνον ἕσο χιτῶναyou would have put on a shirt of stone[Meaning] you would have been stoned.highshort
λ39ΛαΐοςLaios, LaeusThe king of Thebes; look under "Oedipus."highshort
λ40ΛαΐςLais[genitive] *lai/dos: the courtesan [of that name]. See under chelone.highshort
λ41Λάθε βιώσαςlive in seclusion; live unnoticed; live unobtrusively"[...] of what is customarily said in a proverb, but enforced by him in deed, 'live in seclusion': so that I would not expect any of the men living at that time, [of the …highshort
λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breast[The one] creating forgetfulness of pain in the child.highshort
λ43Λαθικηδήςcare-banishing[Meaning] one who/that which creates forgetfulness of misfortunes.highshort
λ44ΛάθωμαιI would forget[Used] with a genitive.highshort
λ45Λαθραίωςsecretly[Secretly] and in secret and secretively: [all] meaning in a hidden manner.highshort
λ46Λακάνηhod, flat panWhat in common dialect [sc. is the headword] laka/nh; from the intensive prefix la- and the [verb] xai/nein ['to gape open']; for [it is] flat; but the Attic form [is] leka/nh.highshort
λ47Λάκαινα κύωνSpartan bitchSophocles [writes]: "like some keen-scented stepping of a Spartan bitch."highshort
λ48Λάκαιον ὕδωρLakaian water, Lacaean water[Meaning] that from a (?)lakaina.highshort
λ49ΛακεδαίμονοςLakedaimon, LacedaemonAlso [sc. attested is] 'Lakedaimonians': see under Datis and Artaphernes.highshort
λ50ΛακέρειαLakereia, LaceriaName of a city.highshort
λ51Λακέρυζα κορώνηcawing crow[Meaning] one making loud shrieks.highshort
λ52Λακερύζεσθαιto squawk[Meaning] to gossip, or to insult.highshort
λ53Λακίδας πεπλωμάτωνtatters of robes[Meaning] torn outer-garments, in Aristophanes.highshort
λ54ΛακιδέαςLaodikeians, LaodiceansIn the Epigrams: "avoid the asp, the toad, the serpent, and Laodikeans."highshort
λ55ΛακίνιονLakinion, LaciniumA mountain of Kroton. Also [sc. attested is] Lakinia, a place.highshort
λ56Λάκισμαrent[Meaning a] tear. " [...] they found the chiton bloodstained and rent". Meaning torn.highshort
λ57Λακίσματα μελῶνrending of limbs[Meaning] the tearing-off of flesh. And elsewhere: "then the Turks bore around the foliage of frankincense rent by the flame."highshort
λ58ΛακκόπλουτονPit-rich, Pit-wealthyThus they used to call Callias the Athenian for this reason: Xerxes, defeated in the sea-battle at Salamis, fled from Athens, but one of the Persians was stationed on Callias’ [property] and deposited his …highshort
λ59Λακκόπρωκτοςpit-arse, tank-arseAristophanes [writes]: "you pit-arse. [--] Sprinkle me, sprinkle me with lots of roses. Don't you know that I like to have plenty of things said about me, even bad things?"highshort
λ60Λάκκοςpit, reservoir, tank[The] Athenians and the other Greeks dig holes under ground, making them wide with four rounded corners, plaster the sides, and put wine and oil in them; and these they called lakkoi.highshort
λ61Λάκκοςpit[A way of referring to] death; since the grave is dug very much like a pit. David [says]: "and I will be made like those who go down into the pit." The holy Scripture …highshort
λ62ΛακωνίζωI lakonize, I laconize, I laconise[Meaning] I take the Laconians' view. "Some have atticized, others have laconized." But to laconize [sc. can also mean] to make use of boys. Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae, second [edition], [sc. uses the word in …highshort
λ63ΛακωνικαίLakonians, Laconians[A type of] men’s shoes. "Where [is] your prick, where your cloak, where your Laconians?" Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [sc. says this]. Also in [the] Epigrams: "and those Laconians fine-robed".highshort
λ65Λακωνικὴ τάξιςLakonian formation, Laconian formationThat which in the early wars appears to have been the best of the [formations employed] formerly. The formations were divided into pentekostyes, enomotiai, and moirai; and the minimum number of the enomotia was …highshort

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