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λ331ΛευκοθέηLeukothea, Leucothea, White GoddessSame entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (338). The headword is the Ionic dialect version of the name of the sea-goddess Ino, in Homer (Odyssey 5.333-4, web address 1); 'Ino Leukothea' in …Matched in noteshighshort
λ329ΛεύκιοςLucius, Leukios… helped him manage affairs throughout the kingdom. Getting on the good side of everyone in these things and helping and always providing something useful for those who asked, and at the same time using …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ546ΛιμηράLimera… 1): "Apollodorus observes that this city, because it has a good harbour [limen], was called limenera, which was abbreviated and contracted to limera, and its name changed". Modern scholarship accepts this (see LSJ s.v. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ262ΛεωκόριονLeokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine… members of the royal family must be sacrificed for the good of the people, and their 2.86-87 no.209 lists the sources for this particular case. No further myths are associated with Leos, who is …Matched in noteshighshort
λ673ΛοξίαςLoxias… that the empire to fall was his own). As the god of the sun, Apollo could be identified with the sun. [2] Aelian fr. 334 Domingo-Forasté (337 Hercher), alluding to Pindar, Olympians 8.55(73).Matched in noteshighshort
λ265ΛέωνLeon… not.' The Athenian people came to an accord, brought to good order by Leon's clever and timely improvisation. This Leon, when he was trying to keep Philip away from Byzantium, was slandered by Philip …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ254ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… he saw that the child was not giving indications of good hope for virtue, by prayer (so they say) he caused him to die while still a boy, as he judged that it was …Matched in translationhighlong
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… to a line dusted with white chalk, and hence potentially good for making a mark on surfaces that are not white, most commentators take it as referring to a bare line, untreated with the …Matched in noteshighshort
λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… (= SVF 3.24). By "Hellenism" is meant the use of good Greek style and diction which is in accordance with grammar; clarity is an expression (le/cis) easily understandable; brevity is a speech which includes …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, LucianOf Samosata, nicknamed blasphemer or slanderer, or better to say godless, because in his dialogues he ridiculed the things said about the divine. He lived in the time of the Emperor Trajan and later. …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… when Heracles came down for Cerberus and, after asking the goddess for him, snatched him off the rock. Therefore in his honor the rest of the Athenians are also so called.Matched in translationhighmedium
λ147Λάτρηςhireling, servant… garments and blond locks, fearing the half-female servant of the goddess."Matched in translationhighshort
λ223Λέγειν σὺ δεινόςyou are clever in speaking… I for my part do not listen to you with goodwill because of your ill-will.Matched in translationhighshort
λ633Λίχνοςgluttonous… Pherekratte is probably a slip for the name of the goddess Pherephatte (Persephone); cf. pi 1560, where the same quotation occurs with the reading Pherephatte. If it is not an error it could conceivably …Matched in noteshighshort
λ548Λιμηρῆςhunger-causing… offering, an implement of hunger-causing labor. But [Bitto] said, 'hail goddess, and keep this.'" Matched in translationhighshort
λ74Λαλάγημαbabbling, prattling… effective epyllion, no.63), called a Gallus (devotee of the Phrygian goddess Cybele; gamma 41). He takes refuge in a cave only to find he has been followed by a lion, but he manages to …Matched in noteshighshort
λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… but Rhadamanthys was the first to prohibit oaths by the gods, [ordaining] instead swearing by goose and dog and ram and suchlike. Lampon was a sacrificer, oraclemonger and seer, with whom they also connect …Matched in translationhighshort
λ465Λῆξιςallotment, cessation… buries the dead man, having already rendered to the infernal gods their allotment." And elsewhere: "on the cessation of that period (a cessation which, by Zeus, was hardly fortunate), he hurled himself like a …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ356Λείαςbooty, plunder… I despoil. And elsewhere Homer [writes]: "for both cattle and goodly sheep are plunderable". And again: "when the Scythians overran the land of the Romans and took away a lot of plunder, the emperor …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ869Λυσσομανεῖςraving mad… behavior of the Galli (cf. gamma 41, gamma 42), Phrygian goddess Kybele's (Cybele, kappa 2586) eunuch priests.Matched in noteshighshort
λ312Λευγαλέαςbaneful… singular occurs). [2] Greek Anthology 6.270.3-4 (Nicias: addressed to the goddess of childbirth). Read oi(= "her" instead of the Suda's toi "you". [3] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.281.Matched in noteshighshort
λ308Λέσχαιlounges… [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.328-9 (web address 1). [2] Kleanthes, On Gods (fr.543 SVF). [3] On Herakleides see generally eta 463.Matched in noteshighshort
λ674Λοπάςgriddle, hotplate… lambda399 Theodoridis has 'Theopompus' use lopa/s to mean, as transmitted, "goddess" (th\n qeo/n), but Meineke realised the need to emend there to th\n soro/n "funerary urn". [3] For other senses still, see LSJ: a …Matched in noteshighshort
λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… three parallel explanations of a phrase ("you will destroy the gods with Melian starvation") found at Aristophanes, Birds 186, the first two closely related to notes in scholia thereto, the third drawn from a …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… [5] See Plutarch, Lucullus 27.4. [6] In his treatise On gods, says Plutarch. This is Lucullus' friend the Academic philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon (c.130-68), on whom see generally G. Striker in OCD(4) s.v. 'Antiochus(11)'. …Matched in noteshighmedium

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