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- λ419ΛήθωI cause [someone] to forget[Meaning] I escape [someone's] notice. Also [sc. attested is] lh/somen ["we will cause (someone) to forget"] likewise.
- λ326Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳsomeone white like Nikias sprang upA misquotation of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 428 (where the "someone" is not feminine, as here, but masculine, after the noun "youth"; see web address 1). Comment from the scholia on the line follows. This early-fourth-century …
- λ238Λελάχωσιthey would put [someone] in possession of[Meaning] they would bury [him].
- λ381Λειπομαρτυρίου δίκηsuit against a recalcitrant witnessThey [i.e. the Athenians] used to bring a lawsuit against those who knew something of what had happened and promised to give evidence in court, but later absconded; and if convicted, [the defendants] would …
- λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… ['Stone-thrower' means] he who is deserving of having stones cast against him, that is of being stoned to death. And Aelian [writes]: "to destroy that cause of evil and stone-thrower."
- λ660Λόγου τυχεῖνto get a wordMeaning [to get] praise. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Ktesiphon [sc. uses the phrase].
- λ499Λιγαίνωνcrying out[Meaning someone] announcing. [Meaning someone] singing.
- λ430Ληϊστόςto be seized as booty[Meaning someone/something] to be acquired as a possession.
- λ481Λιασθείςhaving fallen, having sunk[Meaning someone] having turned aside.
- λ814ΛύκοςLykos, Lycus… under the Successors [sc. of Alexander the Great] and was plotted against by Demetrios of Phaleron. This man wrote a history of Libya, and about Sicily.
- λ105Λαμψακηνῶνof Lampsacenes, of LampsakenesOn the wrath of Alexander against them, look under Anaximenes.
- λ20Λάγνοςlecher[sc. Male] prostitute, low-life, [someone] obsessed by sex.
- λ376Λειώσαςgrinding smooth, pounding fine[Meaning someone] cutting up.
- λ97Λαμπροείμωνclad in dazzling garments[Meaning someone] wearing dazzling garments.
- λ111Λὰξ ποδὶ κινήσαςmoving with the foot by the heel[Meaning someone] moving with the sole of the foot.
- λ276ΛεωσθένηςLeosthenes… quite ready zealousness at the critical time in the war against the Macedonians and with his good fortune failing, proceeds against the enemy and makes a rash charge. He is struck by a rock …
- λ337Λευκόχρωςpale-fleshed, white-fleshed[Meaning someone] having a pale/white body. In the Epigrams: "Daphnis the pale/white-fleshed, making music with a fine pan-pipe".
- λ618ΛιτήLite, Lete[sc. A city] of Macedonia; Hyperides in the [speech] Against Demades mentions it.
- λ657Λογοποιῶνstory-telling[Meaning someone] fabricating false stories.
- λ591Λιποτάκτηςdeserter, post-deserter… Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] leipotakth/sas, [meaning someone] having abandoned, having fled.
- λ664Λόγχηlance, spearThey name each composite whole in the singular, as if someone might say "horse" in reference to many horses. So a "lance" [is] an iron javelin.
- λ266ΛέωνLeon… (lambda 265). For Sacred Wars, declared by the Delphic Amphictiony against states allegedly guilty of sacrilege against Apollo, see OCD(4) s.v.
- λ553ΛίμνοςLimnos, Limnus[1] That of a conspirator against Alexander the Great (in Plutarch, Alexander 49). [2] i.e. a masculine form of li/mnh, for which see lambda 551.
- λ256ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… also became a heretic at Antioch. Photius the patriarch wrote against him. For this man addressed audacious and blasphemous nonsenses concerning the "homoousios" to Flavianus.
- λ593ΛίπτωI am eager… ["to have been eager"] likewise; from which [comes] also lelihme/nos ["[someone] being eager"].
- λ268ΛέωνLeon, LeoThis man was sent as general by Eutropius the eunuch 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 …
- λ523Λίθος[the] stoneDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Konon [writes]: "leading to the stone one by one, like this, our witnesses who were present and putting them on oath". So Athenians seem to have made oaths at …
- λ445Ληματιᾷςyou are high-spirited… is also used without an iota [subscript] [as] lêmatias, [meaning] someone high-spirited and powerful.
- 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].
- λ141Λάσταυροςeffeminate, nancy-boy[A term for] a male whore, hairy in the rump, someone being shaggy-arsed; he who is hairy in the arse. "If any amongst the Greeks or the non-Greeks [was] an effeminate in his ways, …