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- λ224Λέγεις μοι χαράν λέγεις μοι βοᾶνyou tell me joy (and) you tell me shoutingAristophanes in Plutus [sc. says this]. Meaning you are announcing to me [something] worthy of joy, so that, overcome with joy, I will shout.
- 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 …
- λ43Λαθικηδήςcare-banishing… him how she used to nurse him, offering him her "care-banishing breast." cf. lambda 42.
- λ280Λεωφόροςpeople-carrying[A term applicable to a] public road.
- λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breast[The one] creating forgetfulness of pain in the child.
- λ139ΛάσοςLasos, LasusSon of Charbinos, of Hermione, a city of Achaia; born in the 58th Olympiad, when Dareios the son of Hystaspes [sc. was also born]. Some include him in the count of the Seven Sages, …
- 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".
- λ276ΛεωσθένηςLeosthenes… fortune failing, proceeds against the enemy and makes a rash charge. He is struck by a rock on the head in an unguarded moment and falls along the battle array.
- λ171Λαχώνhaving obtained… is being attacked verbally and physically by the chorus, who charge him with embezzlement. [2] The scholiast carelessly equates here two different procedures in C5-BCE democratic Athens: (random) sortition and (deliberate) voting. The first …
- λ423Ληΐδαbooty[Meaning] carrying off in plunder.
- λ585Λιπαροκρήδεμνοςbright-veiled[Meaning] she who has a valuable veil. "Bright-veiled Charis — if we may quote Homer — wrought you with her own hands."
- λ286Λεπιδωτοὶ ἰχθύεςscaly fishes[Meaning] every species of fishes except the cartilaginous.
- λ266ΛέωνLeonof Alabanda. Rhetor. He wrote On Caria (4 books); On Lycia (in 2 books); an Art; On Issues; The Sacred War between the Phocians and Boeotians.
- λ239ΛέλεγεςLeleges, LelegiansOf the Bronze-Age E Aegean; sometimes equated with the Carians (kappa 358, kappa 374).
- λ525Λιθουργόςstone-worker[Meaning] stone-carver/stone-cutter.
- λ536Λικνοφόροςbearer of the winnowing-fan… is suitable for every rite and sacrifice. The man who carries it is called bearer of the winnowing-fan.
- λ98Λαμπροφόροιlamp-bearers… as if we were lamp-bearers, have stooped over. For those carrying lamps are stooped because of the wind.
- λ102Λαμπρυνομένωνof those gloryingMeaning [a throng] of those boasting and winning in chariot[-race]s.
- λ428Ληΐσατοseized as plunder[Meaning he/she/it] divided up, or carried off as plunder.
- λ91Λαμπήνηcoach… a royal/imperial wagon; a famous [?]rhedion, which is a covered chariot.
- λ715Λόχμηthicket, undergrowthA saying: "you're carrying a lot of undergrowth". Meaning you should be depilated. This Phormion was hairy and had swarthy buttocks.
- λ354Λείαsmooth; bootyA level road, and carrying off booty. It is also a proper name.
- 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 …
- λ639Λογεῖονspeaking-place[Meaning] an oracular seat. [That] which the priest used to carry around; in which the 12 stones had been obliterated. Also [sc. attested is] speaking-place, [meaning] lawcourt.
- λ877Λύχνιονlampstand… -- these were silver -- to be picked up and carried in full view".
- λ410Λήθαργος κύωνlazy dog, lethargic dog… one which fawns, but bites surreptitiously. With horses too, the careless and feeble and idle ones are called lazy/lethargic. There is also a particular [sc. medical] condition, with fever, [sc. called lethargy].
- λ783ΛυδίαLydia… by Mysia to the north, Phrygia to the east, and Caria to the south. cf. lambda 784, lambda 785, lambda 786, lambda 787.
- λ321Λευκὴ ἀκτήWhite Headland… matter more cautiously. [1] Lysias fr. 9 Sauppe (still 9 Carey OCT).
- λ268ΛέωνLeon, Leo… against the barbarians. He was easily-satisfied and, on account of care for strong drink, easily led astray. For his manhood compelled him to have more concubines than the soldiers [had] and to drink more …
- λ17ΛαγίσκαLagiska, Lagisca… Kock and K.-A.). [1] Lysias fr. 155 Sauppe, now 208 Carey (OCT).