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Catharine Roth8
Oliver Phillips ✝8
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Akihiko Watanabe1

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λ224Λέγεις μοι χαράν λέγεις μοι βοᾶνyou tell me joy (and) you tell me shoutingAristophanes in Plutus [sc. says this]. Meaning you are announcing to me [something] worthy of joy, so that, overcome with joy, I will shout.Matched in headwordhighshort
λ694Λουτροφόροςbath-carrier… this was a boy with a hydria. They used to carry the bath[-water] from the spring now called Enneakrounos, formerly Kallirhoe.Matched in translationhighmedium
λ124Λάρκοςcharcoal-scuttle… 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 do ink." For when …

λ224

Λέγεις μοι χαράν λέγεις μοι βοᾶν

you tell me joy (and) you tell me shouting

Aristophanes in Plutus [sc. says this]. Meaning you are announcing to me [something] worthy of joy, so that, overcome with joy, I will shout.

Λέγεις μοι χαράν, λέγεις μοι βοᾶν· Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀναγγέλλεις μοι χαρᾶς ἄξιον, ὥστε βοᾶν τῇ χαρᾷ νικώμενον.

meter and music5

meter and music5

Richard Rodriguez1

Richard Rodriguez1

Matched in translationhighshort

λ43Λαθικηδήςcare-banishing… him how she used to nurse him, offering him her "care-banishing breast." cf. lambda 42.Matched in noteshighshort

λ42Λαθικηδέα μαζόνcare-banishing breast[The one] creating forgetfulness of pain in the child.Matched in headwordhighshort

λ280Λεωφόροςpeople-carrying[A term applicable to a] public road.Matched in headwordhighshort

λ139ΛάσοςLasos, LasusSon of Charbinos, of Hermione, a city of Achaia; born in the 58th Olympiad, when Dareios the son of Hystaspes [sc. was also born]. Some include him in the count of the Seven Sages, …Matched in translationhighshort

λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian… time of the Emperor Trajan and later. Early in his career this man was a lawyer in Syrian Antioch, but, after proving unsuccessful at this, he turned to writing and wrote endlessly. The story …Matched in translationhighmedium

λ30Λαγὼς περὶ τῶν κρεῶνa hare [runs] for his life… their lives and stoutly contesting something. Also a[another] proverb: 'the Carpathian [brought in] the hare'. In reference to those who are harming themselves; for the Carpathians, who lived on an island and had no …Matched in translationhighmedium

λ808ΛύκιςLykis… poet. Aristophanes [writes] : "why on earth should I have carried these bags, if I shall be doing none of the things Phrynichus created, and Lykis and Ameipsias". So these men [are] the three …Matched in translationhighmedium

λ276ΛεωσθένηςLeosthenes… fortune failing, proceeds against the enemy and makes a rash charge. He is struck by a rock on the head in an unguarded moment and falls along the battle array.Matched in translationhighshort

λ526Λιθουργικὴstone-working… Lysias in the [speech] In reply to Nausias, concerning the carving [writes]: "[...] but because there are three skills in the work, stone-working and stone-polishing and, in addition, creating the luxury".Matched in translationhighshort

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

λ768Λύγδιναmarble-white… an encircling girdle." In the Epigrams. And elsewhere: "as if carved of white marble, laden with maidenly delights". White marble is a kind of stone. And elsewhere: "a certain man was trying to sell …Matched in translationhighshort

λ266ΛέωνLeonof Alabanda. Rhetor. He wrote On Caria (4 books); On Lycia (in 2 books); an Art; On Issues; The Sacred War between the Phocians and Boeotians.Matched in translationhighshort

λ423Ληΐδαbooty[Meaning] carrying off in plunder.Matched in translationhighshort

λ585Λιπαροκρήδεμνοςbright-veiled[Meaning] she who has a valuable veil. "Bright-veiled Charis — if we may quote Homer — wrought you with her own hands."Matched in translationhighshort

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

λ64Λακωνικαὶ κλεῖδεςLakonian keys, Laconian keys… Aristophanes [mentions them]; they are famous. "For the husbands now carry secret keys, most ill-natured ones, certain Lakonian ones, with [three] teeth. So previously it was possible, for women who had had a three-obol …Matched in translationhighmedium

λ87Λαμπάδιον περὶ τὸ σφυρόνlint-bandage round the ankle… while leaping over a trench". "The emperor Trajan used to care for those who had been wounded in war. With the lack of outer bandages he did not even spare his own clothing, but …Matched in translationhighmedium

λ91Λαμπήνηcoach… a royal/imperial wagon; a famous [?]rhedion, which is a covered chariot.Matched in translationhighshort

λ98Λαμπροφόροιlamp-bearers… as if we were lamp-bearers, have stooped over. For those carrying lamps are stooped because of the wind.Matched in translationhighshort

λ102Λαμπρυνομένωνof those gloryingMeaning [a throng] of those boasting and winning in chariot[-race]s.Matched in translationhighshort

λ226Λέαιναlioness… On the handles of kitchen-knives ivory lions used to be carved. So he is saying: I will not assume the position of a whore for a man, like a lioness on a cheesegrater. The …Matched in translationhighmedium

λ254ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… things, you put your hand to other things, being in charge of military and political matters, but you give orders to the bishops concerning those matters which belong only to bishops". And the emperor …Matched in translationhighlong

λ264ΛεώκριτοςLeokritos, Leocritus… Kinesias with [K]leokritos instead of wings, so that they were carried in mid air, the outcome will be their death once they are airborne.Matched in translationhighmedium

λ268ΛέωνLeon, Leo… against the barbarians. He was easily-satisfied and, on account of care for strong drink, easily led astray. For his manhood compelled him to have more concubines than the soldiers [had] and to drink more …Matched in translationhighshort

λ286Λεπιδωτοὶ ἰχθύεςscaly fishes[Meaning] every species of fishes except the cartilaginous.Matched in translationhighshort

λ302Λέρνη θεατῶνLerna of spectators, Lerne of spectators… the Hydra, others because of the fact that the Argives carried away the sacrifice-refuse there; for it was in Lerna that Danaos deposited the heads of the sons of Aigyptos, and probably as an …Matched in translationhighshort

λ354Λείαsmooth; bootyA level road, and carrying off booty. It is also a proper name.Matched in translationhighshort

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