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- 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.
- λ35Λάεινto see[Meaning] to look. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)lao/s ["unseeing"], [meaning] a blind man.
- λ36Λάειος φόνοςLaian murderThat of Laios.
- λ37Λάϊγγεςpebbles[Meaning] small stones.
- λ38Λάϊνον ἕσο χιτῶναyou would have put on a shirt of stone[Meaning] you would have been stoned.
- λ39ΛαΐοςLaios, LaeusThe king of Thebes; look under "Oedipus."
- λ40ΛαΐςLais[genitive] *lai/dos: the courtesan [of that name]. See under chelone.
- 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 …
- λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breast[The one] creating forgetfulness of pain in the child.
- λ43Λαθικηδήςcare-banishing[Meaning] one who/that which creates forgetfulness of misfortunes.
- λ44ΛάθωμαιI would forget[Used] with a genitive.
- λ45Λαθραίωςsecretly[Secretly] and in secret and secretively: [all] meaning in a hidden manner.
- 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.
- λ47Λάκαινα κύωνSpartan bitchSophocles [writes]: "like some keen-scented stepping of a Spartan bitch."
- λ48Λάκαιον ὕδωρLakaian water, Lacaean water[Meaning] that from a (?)lakaina.
- λ49ΛακεδαίμονοςLakedaimon, LacedaemonAlso [sc. attested is] 'Lakedaimonians': see under Datis and Artaphernes.
- λ50ΛακέρειαLakereia, LaceriaName of a city.
- λ51Λακέρυζα κορώνηcawing crow[Meaning] one making loud shrieks.
- λ52Λακερύζεσθαιto squawk[Meaning] to gossip, or to insult.
- λ53Λακίδας πεπλωμάτωνtatters of robes[Meaning] torn outer-garments, in Aristophanes.
- λ54ΛακιδέαςLaodikeians, LaodiceansIn the Epigrams: "avoid the asp, the toad, the serpent, and Laodikeans."
- λ55ΛακίνιονLakinion, LaciniumA mountain of Kroton. Also [sc. attested is] Lakinia, a place.
- λ56Λάκισμαrent[Meaning a] tear. " [...] they found the chiton bloodstained and rent". Meaning torn.
- 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."
- 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 …
- 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?"
- 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.