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- λ764Λοισθώνηincontinent[Meaning] the bold/rash one.
- λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breast[The one] creating forgetfulness of pain in the child.
- λ452Λήμνιος ἀνήρLemnian fellow, Lemnian man[Meaning one] from the island of Lemnos.
- λ43Λαθικηδήςcare-banishing[Meaning] one who/that which creates forgetfulness of misfortunes.
- λ654Λογογράφοςlogographer, logographos, speech-writer[Meaning] one who writes lawsuits, or [sc. and more exactly] forensic [speeches]. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] logografw=; [used] with an accusative.
- λ786Λύδιον μέλοςLydian modeJust like a Dorian and Phrygian one.
- λ876Λυτρωτήςredeemer… [He is] 'Lord' as maker and creator, and 'helper' as one who has given the aid of the law: for law, he says, he has given with a view to aid. And [he is] …
- λ51Λακέρυζα κορώνηcawing crow[Meaning] one making loud shrieks.
- λ174Λαιάleft [hand][Meaning the] better [one], or [a] stunted [one].
- λ6ΛαβίνιοςLabinios, Lavinius… Halicarnassus' version (in Roman Antiquities 19.10-11) of the name of one of the Roman consuls of 280 BCE, P. Valerius Laevinus (sic); note also 'L. Lavinius', one of a group of military tribunes with …
- λ634Λοβόςlobe… ears, [spelled] with an omega. Also [sc. attested is] lwbo/s ['one who has been mutilated'], [meaning] the one who has been harmed.
- λ754Λοιδορησμόςabusement… Frogs 758: web address 1) glossed with a related common one. For the gloss see lambda 755.
- λ495Λιβυκὸν ὄρνεονLibyan birdMeaning a big one. There being in Libya many strange birds.
- λ576ΛιπάραLiparaOne of the so-called islands of Aeolus. Lipara [is] near Sicily.
- λ684ΛουκιανὸςLucianAnother one, count of the east, in the reign of the emperor Arkadios. His position meant that one who held it was to rule over all those who governed the eastern provinces, and to …
- λ844Λύπηgrief, sorrow, painFor lu/ph see already lambda 843 (which indeed in one manuscript is the first half of the present entry).
- λ672Λοξὴ φάλαγξcrooked battle-line, crooked phalanx[Meaning] that in which one wing, whichever is preferred, is close to the enemy and is where the battle is conducted, while the other [wing] is held off in reserve at a distance; a …
- λ857Λυσθείςreleased, rolled up, fallen[Meaning one who was] brought down.
- λ807ΛυκιουργίςLykian-ware, Lycian-ware… this way. But the grammarian seems to be unaware that one would not find such an expression arising from proper names, rather from cities and peoples; like "a couch Milesian-made" and the like. So …
- λ463Ληξιαρχικὸν γραμματεῖονlexiarchic register, deme register[sc. The one] into which were inscribed [sc. the names of] those [sc. Athenians] who had left boyhood behind and were now permitted to manage their inherited property; which is how the name came …
- λ805ΛυκίανLykia, LyciaHomer calls the Troad Lycia. "No one in Lycia claims to be better than you."
- λ716Λόχμηthicket[Meaning] a dense place. [One] slanting, over-grown, and thickly-wooded. "Entering some thicket, the crowd of women and adolescent boys were awaiting their opportunity."
- λ571Λινοπτωμένηnet-watching… watch over hunting nets", and they criticize two other interpretations: one derived "ignorantly from the birds falling into the nets", and one claiming that the word means "to fear excessively".
- λ95Λαμπρὰν ἡμέρανbright dayThey say ['bright' day], not pure [one].
- λ135Λασιόκωφοςhairy-mute[Meaning] one who is excessively mute; e.g. having hairy ears, resulting in deafness and sense-deprivation.
- λ591Λιποτάκτηςdeserter, post-deserter[Meaning] absconder/refugee. One abandoning his post. Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] leipotakth/sas, [meaning someone] having abandoned, having fled.
- λ158Λάφυραbooty[Meaning] things taken from one's enemies while they are still alive; what [is taken from them] when they are dead is called spoils [skula].
- λ858ΛυσίαςLysias… a Syracusan, an orator, pupil of T[e]isias and of Nikias, one of the 10 orators [sc. selected as the best] with Demosthenes. He was born in Athens, after Kephalos had migrated there [sc. from …
- λ323Λευκὴ ἡμέραwhite day, brilliant day… [they had passed the day] troublesomely, [they dropped] a black one. Accordingly, in the case of men who were dying, they brought out their quivers and counted the pebbles; and if many white ones …
- λ667ΛοκρὸςLokrian, LocrianAias the [Lokrian]; not the one from Salamis. Also [sc. attested is] Lokris, a city.