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λ156Λαφυγμόςedacity, gourmandising… Flatterers [writes]: "[he/she/it] will be devoured with altogether vigorous edacity". Homer [writes]: "and [sc. a lion] devours all the entrails".Matched in translationhighshort
λ570Λίνοςlinos, linusΑ sort of hymn. Homer [writes]: "he sang a fine linos". [The term arises] not because of the strings [being made] from flax, but [because] they sang a sort of hymn, like a paean. …Matched in translationhighshort
λ356Λείαςbooty, plunder… in Sophocles; hence also lh|sth/s in its proper sense ["plunderer"]. Homer [writes]: "we drove together a lot of booty from out the plain". "For we recently found all the cattle dead and slaughtered". And …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ499Λιγαίνωνcrying out… epic/poetic verb ligai/nw (only in present and imperfect); see generally Homer, Iliad 11.685 (web address 1). Perhaps quoted here from Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.740 (web address 2). [1] Same or similar glossing in the …Matched in noteshighshort