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Λάκτιν
pestle
[1] The noun -- quoted from
Callimachus:
see next note -- and its glosses are all in the accusative singular. Not the usual word for a pestle, which may be doi=duc (e.g. Aristophanes, Knights …
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149
Λάτρον
pay
… cf. lambda 146. [2] cf. lambda 147, lambda 148. [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.344.
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175
Λαιδρός
brash, impudent
The headword adjective occurs in hellenistic poetry, e.g.
Callimachus
and Nicander, and it is similarly glossed in the scholia to the latter (Theriaca 689); see also Hesychius lambda123 and lambda124. (Both of these Hesychius …
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207
Λαίφη
garment, shift
… see generally LSJ s.v. (Another sense at chi 334.) [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 239 Pfeiffer.
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309
Λέσχη
lounging, lounge; conversation
… brave Spartans in Persian-War battles (web address 1). [3] From
Callimachus'
famous epitaph for the elegiac poet Heraclitus of Halicarnassus: Greek Anthology 7.80 (Diogenes Laertius 9.17), lines 2-5. On this epigram, see Gow and …
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352
Λέχριος
sideways
… from where the headword is probably quoted. (And compare also
Callimachus,
Hymns 4.236, where the y scholia gloss le/xrios with plagi/ws.) [2] Greek Anthology 5.294.10 (Agathias Scholasticus): of a suitor going to his lover …
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441
Λῆμα
will
… lh=mma: see LSJ s.v. [2] Quotation not identified by Adler:
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 345 Pfeiffer. [3] Aristophanes, Clouds 457-8, with scholion. [4] Aristophanes, Knights 757, with scholion; cf. theta 419. [5] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 458-60. …
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556
Λιμός
famine, hunger
For the headword, here unglossed, see also lambda 557. [1]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 346; see already at alpha 1297.
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588
Λιπερνῆτις
pauper-woman, poor woman
The headword occurs in
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 254 Pfeiffer. cf. generally lambda 589 (and see epsilon 3052 for 'shoot').
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594
Λίποιμι
I might leave
… quoted by Stobaeus, though other extant possibilities include Euripides and
Callimachus.
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621
Λιτότερος
more frugal, rather frugal
… -- of lito/s (lambda 620), evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps
Callimachus
fr.384.
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635
Λογάδες
whites of the eye
… Myth], Etymologicum lambda92; Etymologicum Magnum 572.36 (citing a fragment of
Callimachus);
scholia to Nicander, Theriaca 292. [2] Greek Anthology 5.270.5-6 (Paul the Silentiary). Here 'hyacinth' is not the flower but the blue-white precious stone; …
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