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λ124Λάρκοςcharcoal-scuttle… the first instance from Lysias fr. 139 Sauppe, now 192 Carey OCT, but goes on to cite Acharnians.] In the play Dicaeopolis confronts a chorus -- a posse, we might say -- of charcoal …Matched in noteshighshort
λ43Λαθικηδήςcare-banishing… him how she used to nurse him, offering him her "care-banishing breast." cf. lambda 42.Matched in noteshighshort
λ139ΛάσοςLasos, Lasus… kappa 2646. [1] Other sources give the name as Chabrinos, Charinos, or Charminos. [2] In the N Peloponnese (Greece). [3] 548/7-545/4. For Dareios, who became King of Persia, see generally delta 72, delta 73, …

λ124

Λάρκος

charcoal-scuttle

[Meaning] something of wickerwork, basket-like or mat-like, in which coals are carried. "This charcoal-scuttle is my [fellow-]demesman." "Out of fear the scuttle squirted me thoroughly with coal dust just as cuttlefish…

Λάρκος· πλέγμα τι κοφινῶδες ἢ ψιαθῶδες, ἐν ᾧ φέρονται ἄνθρακες. ὁ λάρκος δημότης ὅδ' ἔστ' ἐμός. ὑπὸ τοῦ δέους δὲ τῆς μαρίλης μοι συχνὴν ὁ λάρκος ἐπετίλησεν ὥσπερ σηπία. ἀντὶ τῆς…

science and technology4

science and technology4

meter and music2

meter and music2

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λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… Syria: Barrington Atlas map 67 grid H1 [2] Lucian himself characterizes his first profession as rhetoric (Bis accusatus; Apologia 15), which apparently included at least some forensic oratory (e.g., Bis accusatus 32; Piscator 25). …Matched in noteshighmedium

λ276ΛεωσθένηςLeosthenes… Alexander's Successors fr.17 Roos-Wirth. [1] For a summary of Leosthenes' career in office see Robert Develin, Athenian Officials 684-321 B.C. (Cambridge 1989), Index I no.1802. [2] For Leosthenes' death in the Lamian War (322 …Matched in noteshighshort

λ526Λιθουργικὴstone-workingcf. lambda 525. [1] Lysias fr. 186 Sauppe (now 238 Carey OCT).Matched in noteshighshort

λ171Λαχώνhaving obtained… is being attacked verbally and physically by the chorus, who charge him with embezzlement. [2] The scholiast carelessly equates here two different procedures in C5-BCE democratic Athens: (random) sortition and (deliberate) voting. The first …Matched in noteshighshort

λ266ΛέωνLeonBetween C2 BC and AD C2; FGrH 278. [1] In Caria; see generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] i.e. Art of Rhetoric. [3] The history of the (sc. Third) Sacred War, 357-346 BC, is also and …Matched in noteshighshort

λ423Ληΐδαbooty… deployed by the scholia there: "loosely money; properly things from carrying off in plunder". See also under lambda 354; and for related words cf. under alpha 2693 and delta 182.Matched in noteshighshort

λ585Λιπαροκρήδεμνοςbright-veiled[1] Epithet used in Homer, Iliad 18.382 (referring to Charis: web address 1), and in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Similar entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon, according to Adler. [2] Greek Anthology 6.61.5-6 (Palladas).Matched in noteshighshort

λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… lambda14; cf. Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 994a17; a scholion to Plato, Charmides 154B [see below]; Aelius Dionysius lambda8, Hesychius lambda789, Photius lambda220 Theodoridis, Zenobius 4.89, [Diogenianus] 6.8, Gregorius 2.67 Apostolius 10.64. The locus classicus for …Matched in noteshighshort

λ17ΛαγίσκαLagiska, Lagisca… Kock and K.-A.). [1] Lysias fr. 155 Sauppe, now 208 Carey (OCT).Matched in noteshighshort

λ31Λαγῴοιςon hares… cf. pi 3221. Bdelycleon (for whom see under lambda 14) charges the demagogues with diverting the revenue from the tribute brought by the member states of the Delian League, that is, the Athenian Empire …Matched in noteshighshort

λ46Λακάνηhod, flat pan… 1143, where the Attic-dialect version of the headword appears: 'herons [carried the mortar] in hods'. Again at lambda 230. Outside lexicography, the koine form of the word occurs once in the Septuagint (Judges 5.25). …Matched in noteshighshort

λ57Λακίσματα μελῶνrending of limbs… twice in the writings of Gregory of Nazianzus: in the Carmina moralia, and (with definite articles) in speech 15 In praise of the Macabees (PG 35, 925.23). [2] Menander Protector fr. 20 FHG (4.227b), …Matched in noteshighshort

λ66Λακωνικὸν τρόπονin the Lakonian manner, in the Laconian manner, Spartan-style… freedom(s), sexual and otherwise, of Spartan women see generally P.A. Cartledge, "Spartan women: liberation or licence?", Classical Quarterly 31 (1981) 84-105. Concerning the present entry, provided the first glossing infinitive relates to women (in …Matched in noteshighshort

λ88Λαμπάδοςof a torch, torch's… the first instance on Lysias fr. 106 Sauppe (now 123b Carey OCT -- but truncated there). [1] This phrase, not in Harpok., occurs in some mss only. [2] Istros FGrH 334 F2 (longer, but …Matched in noteshighshort

λ92ΛαμπιτώLampito… The name Lampito, chosen by Aristophanes for his chief Spartan character in the play, was also that of several real-life women, notably one of the current Spartan queen mothers (widow of King Archidamus, mother …Matched in noteshighshort

λ94ΛαμπρειμονῶI wear dazzling clothing… in an account of Callirhoe's preparation for her wedding, in Charito, De Chaerea et Callirhoe, 3.1. Also in Michael Glycas, Annales, 119.1; Michael Attaliates, Historia 127.18; Pachymeres 63.7. For the gloss cf. Etymologicum Gudianum …Matched in noteshighshort

λ157Λαφύξαςhaving gulped down… appearances are in Gregory of Nazianzus (Against Julian PG 35.661, Carmina quae spectant ad alios PG 37.1487), but the Lexicon on Gregory of Nazianzus glosses the word as "drawing off, using up" or "devouring". …Matched in noteshighshort

λ181Λαικαστήςlicentious fellow… another speaker); cf. delta 1547. The opening phrase comes from carpentry, specifically the craft of the wheelwright. The passive homosexuality of Agathon was a comic standby: see alpha 124. [3] A word also found …Matched in noteshighshort

λ201Λαιστόνseized (?)… like a verbal adjective derived from lai/w (lambda 176), either "carried, seized" or "destroyed". There are no obvious parallels to the entry in other lexica (although cf. lambda 177). One possibility is that this …Matched in noteshighshort

λ239ΛέλεγεςLeleges, LelegiansOf the Bronze-Age E Aegean; sometimes equated with the Carians (kappa 358, kappa 374).Matched in noteshighshort

λ321Λευκὴ ἀκτήWhite Headland… matter more cautiously. [1] Lysias fr. 9 Sauppe (still 9 Carey OCT).Matched in noteshighshort

λ347ΛέχαιονLechaion, Lechaeum… of this place-name in Lysias fr. 179 Sauppe (now 225 Carey OCT), and citing Strabo (8.6.22) for the information given. On the Corinthian Gulf; the western-facing counterpart to Kenchreai (kappa 1220).Matched in noteshighshort

λ360Λεῖκνονwinnowing-basket… the sense that a l(e)iknon was "sacred to Dionysus, and carried on the head at his festivals" (LSJ s.v.). (In fact the epigram cited here is the totality of the evidence for this.) [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

λ496ΛιβυρνικαίLiburnics, Liburnians… people of the northern Adriatic coast (present-day Croatia). LSJ s.v. characterizes the ship-type as "a lift, swift vessel, felucca"; and cf. L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1995) …Matched in noteshighshort

λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… worth citing the passage in Plato's Symposium (193A-B) where the character Aristophanes tells the story of Love that reunites men and women, according to their sexual disposition, to their original states of double-man, double-woman …Matched in noteshighmedium

λ626ΛιτυέρσηςLityerses, reaping song… (West, below). [1] Menander fr. 264 Kock, actually from The Carthaginian (fr.3 Sandbach).Matched in noteshighmedium

λ648Λογισμόςcalculation, account… provided no financial support for Belisarius's second Italian campaign. While carefully avoiding any engagement with Totila (cf. tau 879), the ill-equipped Byzantine general plundered Ravenna and Sicily on the pretext that it was retribution …Matched in noteshighmedium

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