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- λ1Λᾶαςrock[Meaning] stone. In the Epigrams: "and a rock from porous stone, which sharpened a reed's dull edge."
- λ2Λᾶαςrock[Meaning] stone. And [sc. also attested is the genitive] la/ou, [meaning] of [a] stone. From the nominative la=os, produced from the genitive la=os. "By a rock's force." "Moving sideways, and crouching low on a …
- λ4Λαβεῖν τιμωρίανto exact punishment[Meaning] to be avenged.
- λ5Λάβῃmay take, would takeSecond-aorist subjunctive.
- λ6ΛαβίνιοςLabinios, LaviniusA proper name.
- λ7Λαβραγόρηνbraggart, brashly-speaking[Meaning him] orating excessively.
- λ9Λαβρότατοςmost intemperate, very intemperate[Meaning] most/very excessive.
- λ10ΛαβρώνιονlabronionA kind of drinking-vessel. Also [sc. attested is the masculine] labrw/nios.
- λ11Λαβύρινθοςlabyrinth[Meaning a] spiral-shaped place; it is also said of nonsense. [sc. The term arises] from its not having [labein] a door [thura]. Or from using many circles of words. It also means the votive-offering …
- λ12Λάγαναmeal-cakes[Meaning] flat-cakes, like dry [ones]. From the [adjective] lagaru/ ["thin"]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "[him] starving and eating nothing." "And when David had sacrificed in honor of the relocation of the ark …
- λ13Λαγαρόνslack, flat[Meaning something] rather hollow. "But they contrived [defenses] that by slackness or simplicity sufficed against the archers." And in the Epigrams: "and the skin hangs slack on my neck." And elsewhere: "because for you …
- λ14Λαγαριζόμενονscraping a livingAristophanes [writes]: "when [the allies] have perceived the [rest of the] rabble scraping a living out of a voting-urn and munching on nothing."
- λ15Λάγειον αἷμαhare's bloodThat of a hare.
- λ16Λαγίδηςhare-ish, leveret; LagidThe [sc. offspring] of the hare.
- λ17ΛαγίσκαLagiska, LagiscaA certain courtesan, whom Lysias mentions.
- λ18Λαγνείαlechery[Meaning] prostitution.
- λ19Λάγνηςlecher[la/gnhs is] masculine in place of la/gnos.
- λ20Λάγνοςlecher[sc. Male] prostitute, low-life, [someone] obsessed by sex.
- λ21ΛαγόβαρδοςLagobardos, Longobard, LombardName of a people.
- λ22ΛαγόβιοςLagobios, LagobiusA proper name.
- λ23Λαγόνοςflank, hollow[no gloss]
- λ24ΛαγορίαLagoriaName of a city.
- λ26Λαγωβολεῖονhare-net[Meaning something] in which they catch hares.
- λ27Λαγῴδιονleveret[no gloss]
- 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].
- λ29Λαγὼς καθεύδωνa sleeping hare[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those pretending to sleep. The form lagwo/s, lagwou= is also used. And in the Epigrams: "while I was still a swift-footed child, torn straight from the breast …
- λ31Λαγῴοιςon hares[Meaning] on the flesh of the hare. Aristophanes [writes]: "[with the revenue] from which twenty thousand of the common people [could live] on hares and all sorts of garlands."
- λ32Λάγυνοςflask, flagon[Meaning] the all-receiving.
- λ33Λάγυνοςflask, flagon"Lie there straightway for the Cyprian, o drunken-stumbling flask, now dedicated, cousin of the nectar-sweet Bacchic goblet, moist-voiced, fellow banqueter at the fairly-distributed feast, narrow-necked one, daughter of the sharing token, self-taught servant to …
- λ34ΛάδωνοςLadon, LadoA river of Arkadia.