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λ327Λευκὴ ψῆφοςwhite pebble, white voteHesychius lambda730; Apostolius 10.62, etc. cf. generally psi 85 (which explains 'or miserably').Matched in noteshighshort
λ295Λεπτή τις ἐλπίς ἐστ' ἐφ' ἧς ὀχούμεθαslender is the hope on which we rideAristophanes, Knights 1244 (web address 1); Apostolius 10.55.Matched in noteshighshort
λ521Λίθον ἕψειςyou are boiling a stone… Aristophanes, Wasps 280 (web address 1); cf. [Plato], Eryxias 405B; Apostolius 10.68, etc.Matched in noteshighshort
λ192ΛαίνιλλαLainilla, Laenilla… On the Nature of Animals 7.15. See also the paroemiographer Apostolius (7.5), who spells the name Lainila (something which in ps-Zonaras and Gennadius Scholarius, however, is said to be the name of an island).Matched in noteshighshort
λ822Λύκου πτεράwolf's feathers… features in the background material (about wolves and oxen) in Apostolius 10.80.Matched in noteshighshort
λ127Λάρος κεχηνώςa gull agapeAristophanes, Knights 956, with scholion; cf. Apostolius 10.46. The allusion is to the political greed of Kleon (kappa 1731). For proverbial gulls see also lambda 128.Matched in noteshighshort
λ880Λύχνον ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ ἅπτειςyou are lighting a lamp at noon… Pausanias the Atticist), and taken up by the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 10.95; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1929.Matched in noteshighshort
λ302Λέρνη θεατῶνLerna of spectators, Lerne of spectators… to Lucian, Marine Dialogues 8.2, Zenobius 4.86 and other paroemiographers (Apostolius 10.57, [Diogenianus] 6.7, Gregorius 4.23). The Lerne in question (Lerna in later sources and, via Latin, commonly in English) was a well-watered and, …Matched in noteshighshort
λ859Λυσίζωνος γυνήgirdle-loosening woman… Hesychius lambda1443, with extra material) was, or became, proverbial: cf. Apostolius 10.96. The adjective in it is also used of unarmed soldiers: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
λ128Λάρος ἐν ἕλεσιa gull in the marshesLikewise Apostolius 10.48. Photius, Lexicon lambda103 Theodoridis gives the phrase as 'a gull in Nemesis', which one might have thought the preferable lectio difficilior, but Theodoridis, while printing it, mentions Dindorf's rejection of it; …Matched in noteshighshort
λ817Λύκος περὶ φρέαρ χορεύειa wolf is dancing round a wellLikewise in Photius lambda453 Theodoridis; also in Apostolius 10.86, etc. For another proverb about dancing see gamma 432.Matched in noteshighshort
λ494Λιβυκὸν θηρίονLibyan beastThe headword phrase was (or became) proverbial: cf. Apostolius 10.75. Hesychius lambda947 has a briefer entry: "since [there are] deadly reptiles there, and as Libya has such beasts. Also [means he who is] of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ811Λύκον εἶδεςyou saw a wolf[1] cf. Apostolius 10.89 and other paroemiographers, and the scholia to Theocritus (see next note). [2] Theocritus, Idylls 14.22 -- where in fact these words are interrogative: 'Would you not speak? Did you see …Matched in noteshighshort
λ66Λακωνικὸν τρόπονin the Lakonian manner, in the Laconian manner, Spartan-style… in Hesychius lambda226 and Photius, Lexicon lambda47 Theodoridis, and cf. Apostolius (the paroemiographer) 10.42. This entry brings up the chronological rear of a considerable body of lexicographical and scholiastic mention of the phrase "Spartan-style": …Matched in noteshighshort
λ8Λάβραξbass… For 'Milesian basses' as a byword/proverb, applying to gluttons, see Apostolius 10.38; and for Miletus itself cf. mu 1060. [1] Etymologically 'grabby', thus greedy, a sense present in a couple of the associated terms, …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ692Λουτράbaths… see Plato, Republic 492C, and the paroemiographers (e.g. Gregorius 2.87, Apostolius 9.59).Matched in noteshighshort
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… lambda789, Photius lambda220 Theodoridis, Zenobius 4.89, [Diogenianus] 6.8, Gregorius 2.67 Apostolius 10.64. The locus classicus for the phrase, apart from the Sophocles passage quoted below, is Plato, Charmides 154B (web address 1). While one …Matched in noteshighshort

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