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- λ873Λῦτοwas ended, was dissolved, was adjournedHomer, Iliad 24.1 (web address 1). The form is an epic unaugmented athematic aorist middle/passive from lu/w.
- 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).
- λ551Λίμνηpool… [1] cf. the scholia to Sophocles, Trachiniae 636, and to Homer, Odyssey 3.1. [2] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.709.
- λ805ΛυκίανLykia, Lycia… headword is accusative case, as in the ensuing gloss. [1] Homer, Iliad 5.173 (web address 1), with scholion. For the later use of the term -- of the area, much further south, between Caria …
- λ554ΛιμνώρειαLimnoreiaOne of the Nereids (nu 330): Homer, Iliad 18.41 (web address 1).
- λ602ΛίσσομαιI supplicateHomer, Iliad 1.174 (web address 1); cf. lambda 601.
- λ151ΛαυκανίηgulletEpic word: see e.g. Homer, Iliad 22.325, with scholion. Broadly similar entry in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon; see the references at Photius lambda118 Theodoridis. See again lambda 315.
- λ417ΛῆθοςLethos, LethusHomer, Iliad 2.843 (in genitive case there: father of Hippothoos and Pylaios).
- λ699Λοφιήcrest, maneEpic/Ionic version of the word, as in e.g. Homer and Herodotus. Adler suggests that the entry originated in a comment on Homer, Odyssey 19.446, where the headword appears in the accusative, referring to the …
- λ740ΛωτεῦνταbloomingHomer, Iliad 12.283 (where the present headword lwteu=nta -- in the neuter plural phrase "blooming plains" -- is a variant reading for lwtou=nta), with scholion. See web address 1. Likewise or similarly in other …
- λ601Λίσσεσθαιto supplicatecf. Hesychius lambda1123, and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.174, where the headword verb occurs in the first person singular, as at lambda 602: see web address 1. The lexicographers' infinitive occurs in (e.g.) …
- λ156Λαφυγμόςedacity, gourmandising… 157. [1] Eupolis fr. 148 Kock, now 166 K.-A. [2] Homer, Iliad 11.176 and 17.64 (web addresses 2 and 3).
- λ425Λήϊνανthey smoothedThe headword is probably a hyperdialectal spelling of the Homeric unaugmented aorist lei/hnan: see Homer, Odyssey 8.260 (web address 1); cf. scholion on this verse. For the verb leai/nw or leiai/nw, see also lambda …
- λ570Λίνοςlinos, linus[1] Homer, Iliad 18.570 (web address 1); see also the corresponding scholia, and Eustathius ad loc.. (The entry here follows Aristarchus’ interpretation of the verse.) Also see RE s.v. Linos (below); cf. lambda 568. …
- λ44ΛάθωμαιI would forgetAorist middle subjunctive of lanqa/nw. Perhaps quoted from Homer (Iliad 6.265, 22.282).
- λ112Λαοσσόοςpeople-saver, people-saving… s.v.) and also of female ones, as required here: Eris (Homer, Iliad 20.48) and Athena (Homer, Iliad 13.128, Odyssey 22.210). Thus this whole entry, epithet plus gloss, comes from the scholiastic and lexicographical tradition; …
- λ114Λάπαθονpitfall; dock, monk's rhubarb, sorrel… at Photius lambda90 Theodoridis, including the scholia to a)lapa/zonta in Homer, Iliad 5.166, and Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.362F (8.64 Kaibel). [1] See LSJ s.v. la/paqon, II; neuter, as here, or (as in Democritus fr. 122) …
- λ480Λιαρόνwarm, lukewarm… singular of this adjective, glossed as in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 11.777 (where it refers to blood).
- λ356Λείαςbooty, plunder… from somewhere, is accusative plural of LSJ's lei/a (B). [2] Homer, Iliad 11.677 (web address 1). [3] Sophocles, Ajax 25-26 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. kappa 1052. [4] Quotation unidentifiable. [5] Homer, Iliad …
- λ233Λέκτραιςon couchescf. under eta 201. [1] From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 8.337, where the phrase e)n le/ktroisi occurs (web address 1). (The Suda's feminine le/ktrais is an error, not made in other lexica.) [2] …
- λ319Λεύκηwhite-poplar… 18.260 (web address 1). [2] "They say" in Harpok. [3] Homer, Iliad 13.389-90 (web address 2), repeated 16.482-3.
- λ431Ληΐτιςdispenser of booty; captive woman[1] An epithet of Athena, e.g. at Homer, Iliad 10.460; also a variant of lhi+a/s (lambda 356). [2] In Homer, Iliad (e.g. 2.494), the son of Alectryon, a leader of the Boeotians. Same entry, …
- λ428Ληΐσατοseized as plunder… aorist form of it occurs in, and is quoted from, Homer, Iliad 18.28 (web address 1). Compare also Homer, Odyssey 1.398 (where meter requires the spelling lhi+/ssato; the Suda's spelling also features in the …
- λ479Λίανexcessively, extremelycf. generally Hesychius lambda923 (and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.361). Headword and gloss, both commonplace adverbs, are reversed at pi 247.
- λ421Λήϊαcrops, grain-fields… lexica (see the references at Photius lambda246 Theodoridis), including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 2.147, where the singular of this neuter noun -- lh/i+on (A) in LSJ -- occurs …
- λ666Λοεσσάμενοςhaving bathed, having washed… nominative singular, of loe/w/lou/w (from *love/w). From a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 1.310, where it occurs (Telemachus to the disguised Athene: web address 1). Parallel entry in Hesychius lambda1221 for the dual form loessame/nw …
- λ851ΛύσσαravingFrom the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.239, where the headword occurs (web address 1). cf. lambda 854, lambda 869, and under omicron 130 (personification).
- λ237Λέλακαςyou have cried out… by Euripides (web address 1). See also lambda 432. [1] Homer, Iliad 20.277 (web address 2). [2] Homer, Iliad 13.616 (web address 3). [3] Homer, Odyssey 12.85 (web address 4), about Scylla (sigma 709).
- λ173Λάψοντεςintending to lapThe headword -- quoted from Homer: see n.1 below -- is the future participle of la/ptw (lambda 119, and cf. lambda 172), masculine nominative plural. [1] Blood-sated wolves, in this simile from Homer, Iliad …
- λ308Λέσχαιlounges… Sauppe; see also Photius lambda209 Theodoridis. cf. lambda 309. [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.328-9 (web address 1). [2] Kleanthes, On Gods (fr.543 SVF). [3] On Herakleides see generally eta 463.