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- λ660Λόγου τυχεῖνto get a wordDemosthenes 18.13 (web address 1). "Against" Ktesiphon here should of course be "For." The error postdates the Suda's immediate source, Harpokration s.v.
- λ862ΛυσίμαχοςLysimachos, LysimachusCarelessly abridged from Harpokration s.v. [1] Demosthenes 20.115 (web address 1). (The title of the speech is textually corrupt here.) [2] Aristides: alpha 3903. [3] Lycurgus fr. 25 Conomis.
- λ523Λίθος[the] stone… The Athenian Agora (London 1986) 101-102 with fig. 75. [1] Demosthenes 54.26 (web address 1). [2] ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.1 and 55.5; Philochorus FGrH 328 F21.
- λ130Λαρυγγίζεινto croak[1] Demosthenes 18.291 (web address 1), cited from Harpokration s.v. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 20 Habrich; cf. alpha 4140.
- λ807ΛυκιουργίςLykian-ware, Lycian-ware… *lukiourgei=s (sic: accusative plural, as in the primary source). [1] [Demosthenes] 49.31. [2] Didymos p.314 Schmidt. [3] Harpok. ascribes this phrase to Kritias (88 F35 Diels-Kranz). [4] Herodotus 7.76.
- λ319Λεύκηwhite-poplarAbridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v. [1] Demosthenes 18.260 (web address 1). [2] "They say" in Harpok. [3] Homer, Iliad 13.389-90 (web address 2), repeated 16.482-3.
- λ341ΛεῦκτραLeuktra, Leuctra… Entry abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on its mention in Demosthenes 18.18.
- λ4Λαβεῖν τιμωρίανto exact punishment… lambda5 Theodoridis. The headword phrase is reckoned to come from Demosthenes 18.280 (web address 1); and see generally LSJ s.v. lamba/nw, I.1.c.
- λ277ΛεώστρατοςLeostratos, Leostratus… the name is probably here because of its prominence throughout Demosthenes 44. (See generally J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 195-6.)
- λ281ΛεωχάρηςLeochares… it is the name of other Athenians against whom both Demosthenes and Dinarchus (cf. delta 288) wrote lawcourt speeches.
- λ334ΛευκονοιεύςLeukonoian, Leuconoean… Harpokration s.v., commenting on the appearance of this demotikon in Demosthenes 27.14. The demotikon is correctly given here, but the deme name itself is more authentically -- as in Harpok. -- Leukonoion; cf. lambda …
- λ536Λικνοφόροςbearer of the winnowing-fanAbridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 18.260. For the winnowing-fan itself cf. lambda 535.
- λ638Λογάριαphrases… 810 Kock (950 K.-A.). For this diminutive see also (e.g.) Demosthenes 19.255. [2] Synesius, In Praise of Baldness 4, PG 66.1173c, quoted already at delta 1461.
- λ339Λεύκωμαwhiteboard… in classical Athens see e.g. Lysias 9.6. (web address 1), Demosthenes 24.23 (web address 2). P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford 1981) 555 lists some alternatives to the present headword.
- λ419ΛήθωI cause [someone] to forget… from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities (e.g. Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Apollonius Rhodius, Lucian).
- λ104ΛαμπτρίςLamptreis, Lamptrians… the Suda's source, Harpokration s.v. (commenting on its appearance in Demosthenes 52.3). [1] Present-day Kitsi and Lambrika, respectively. See generally J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) 38 (with 125-6), and again …
- λ317ΛευκάςLeukas, Leucas, Levkas… s.v., commenting in the first instance on its mention in Demosthenes 9.34 and going on to cite Strabo and Menander. NF: its status as an island was disputed, as it was only separated from …
- λ802ΛύκειονLykeion, LyceumAbridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 24.114. See also lambda 801. The name of the Lykeion is best known for a fact not mentioned here: being the chosen location for the philosophical school …
- λ651Λογισταὶreckoners… Dinarchus fr. VII.2 Conomis; Andocides 1.78. Harpok. also cites Eupolis, Demosthenes, and the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia.
- λ381Λειπομαρτυρίου δίκηsuit against a recalcitrant witness… (lambda149 Theodoridis). For an instance of such a suit see [Demosthenes] 49.18-21 (web address 1). [1] That is, the suit fell procedurally into the category of those without fixed penalty (alpha 4364).
- λ261ΛεωκόριονLeokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine… Agora (London 1983) 47, 79.) For this aetiology see also Demosthenes 60.29 (web address 1); Aelian, Varia Historia 12.28.
- λ265ΛέωνLeon… Mysia. [2] Perhaps Berisades, king of the Odrysians, mentioned throughout Demosthenes 23): so Bernhardy. [3] See under lambda 266. [4] Stasis, a rhetorical term for the basis on which one argues a case. Consult …