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λ445Ληματιᾷςyou are high-spirited… is also used without an iota [subscript] [as] lêmatias, [meaning] someone high-spirited and powerful.Matched in translationhighshort
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].Matched in translationhighshort
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, …Matched in translationhighshort
λ281ΛεωχάρηςLeochares… probably here because it is the name of other Athenians against whom both Demosthenes and Dinarchus (cf. delta 288) wrote lawcourt speeches.Matched in noteshighshort
λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… is a logos too. Aristophanes [writes]: "provide Euripides with a plot, and it becomes a tragedy". Search for Chrysippus' "abominable discourses" in the "Chrysippus" [entry].Matched in translationhighmedium
λ78Λαλίστατονmost talkative, very talkative[Meaning] clever[ness] in utterance. Also called this is someone with a good tongue and a most/very pleasant voice.Matched in translationhighshort
λ776ΛυγκεύςLynkeus, Lynceus… of Menander the comic poet and produced plays in competition against him and won.Matched in translationhighshort
λ769ΛυγαῖοςLygaian, Lugaean, Lugian?, Leugaian?, of the twilight[Meaning someone] from a place [of that name?].Matched in translationhighshort
λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… hardships. For during the Peloponnesian War the Athenians dispatched Nikias against everyone and laid siege to them so strenuously as to make them perish by starvation. And in the first year Nikias brought Melos …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ732ΛωπίζωI strip, I uncoverThe headword verb literally means to disrobe (someone); cf. generally lambda 731, lambda 724, lambda 735. Its occurrences are confined to lexica (e.g. Hesychius lambda1510) and grammars, but for the compound e)klwpi/zw (epsilon 487) …Matched in noteshighshort
λ108Λὰξ ἐντείνωνstretching out with the heel[Meaning someone] striking with a kick. Lax is the sort of sound made by the toes.Matched in translationhighshort
λ284Λέπαςcrag… to the rocks, and very hard to yank off when someone wants to get hold of it. Aristophanes is fond of the [word] lepa/s. By insinuation: as a limpet [clings to] the rock, so …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… that the king's fleet was at anchor nearby; he sailed against it and was victorious in the sea-battle, killing everyone including the general Isidoros. Mithridates fled to Tigranes, the king of the Armenians. Lucullus …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ95Λαμπρὰν ἡμέρανbright dayA correction in someone's usage, here quoted. (For the contiguity of the two terms cf. under epsilon 3361.) The case of the headword phrase is accusative singular (of the base introduced in lambda 94). …Matched in noteshighshort
λ82ΛαμβάνωI take[1] In the sense of grasping or seizing someone/something by a body-part in the genitive case. See LSJ s.v., under I.1.a. [2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as from …Matched in noteshighshort
λ633Λίχνοςgluttonous[sc. Someone] snatching eagerly at the dishes, insatiable, gobbling, overeating. Aelian [writes]: "a man fattening his gluttonous and licentious eye with evil entertainment thirsted to witness the rites of Pherekratte although he was uninitiated."Matched in translationhighshort
λ807ΛυκιουργίςLykian-ware, Lycian-wareDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Timotheos uses the expression. Didymos asserts that the bowls manufactured by Lykios the son of Myron were referred to in this way. But the grammarian seems to be unaware …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ200Λαισποδίας τὴν φύσινa natural Laispodias… Alternatively, according to the dictionary of Ixion, [the headword means someone] of unrestrained sexual appetite, leading him to fuck [spodein] even farm-animals.Matched in translationhighshort
λ179ΛαιθυράζωI scoff… prefix lai, Canones 27.2): 'producing a sound through the mouth against the breast'. Note also the suspiciously similar laiqaru/zein, glossed by Hesychius lambda131 as lamurw=sai, diapra/casqai.Matched in noteshighshort
λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… supposedly prophetic bird. It is therefore said of those deceiving someone with an oath. Sybaris [was] an Athenian colony.Matched in translationhighshort
λ257Λεόντιος μοναχόςLeontios the monk… were distraught at the monstrous actions taken by the emperor against the Church, he said, "One should not be astonished at what is done by a man and one who has obtained his authority …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wicked… the white or the orthios nomos." From the saying 'if someone knows [the difference between] the white and the black'. But some say that Arignotos was a kithara-player who sang the so-called orthios nomos …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ13Λαγαρόνslack, flat… "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 over [the] kindling a …Matched in translationhighshort
λ509Λιγυφθόγγοιςclear-voiced… crickets and long-horned grasshoppers), but by scraping the hind femur against their wing-case; cf. xi 79.Matched in noteshighshort
λ357Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοιςis soaked with tears… his house to the people. [Aristophanes] is saying [this] bitterly against Kleon, [meaning] you for your part are self-serving and gain advantage, but the man who is best disposed to the city is soaked …Matched in translationhighshort
λ267ΛέωνLeon, Leo… to accuse them, makes personal accusations whenever he cannot find someone else [to do it], and stockpiles the gold from all the earth to deposit only for his personal wealth, while causing the cities …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… he was killed by dogs, because he turned his savagery against the truth; for in his "Life of Peregrinus" he attacked Christianity and -- the scoundrel --slandered Christ himself. Wherefore he paid sufficient penalty …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ834Λύματαfilths, excrements, off-scourings… Gaius Claudius were consuls, the Romans decided to make war against the Tarantines, who were Greek colonists, but dwelled in the edge of Italy, for they insulted their ambassadors in unseemly words and deeds, …Matched in noteshighshort
λ645ΛογγῖνοςLonginus… Porphyry. [3] Zenobia was the queen of Palmyra who rebelled against Rome after the death of her husband Odaenathus; cf. under alpha 4458. [4] The transmitted text (peri\ tou= kata\ fubi/ou) is corrupt, and …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ470Λῆροςdementia, delirium… delirium; and subdued damage is called raving. But liros [is] someone impudent; from "looking a lot" (lian oran); it is spelled with an iota.Matched in translationhighmedium

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