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75
Λαλέοντος
chattering, speaking
… lale/w (cf. under lambda 76 for its meanings): the uncontracted
Ionic
form -- which would long have survived in archaizing poetry -- glossed by the later Attic form. The headword must be quoted from …
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110
Λᾶξιν
assignment
… The presence of "mixture" among the synonyms seems unwarranted. The
Ionic
form is la/cis with a short alpha; the Attic is lh=cis (cf. lambda 465). The headword here with a circumflex accent confuses the …
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202
Λαιστρόν
laistron
Also in Theognostus, On Orthography 27, and ps.-Zonaras s.v. laitro/n. Seemingly a corruption of Hesychius' la/iton (lambda163) -- glossed as a)rxei=on -- which in turn is an Atticisation of Herodotus 7.197.2 ('the Achaians call …
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216
Λέβεδος
Lebedos, Lebedus
In
Ionia,
between Teos and Kolophon. Barrington Atlas map 61 grid D1; present-day Kisik in Turkey.
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227
Λεαίνω
I smooth
Mss AFV, Adler reports, contain only the two participles, not the primary headword leai/nw or "with an accusative." See also lambda 211, lambda 355. The verb is also listed as taking the accusative in …
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261
Λεωκόριον
Leokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine
From the scholia to Thucydides 1.20.2, where the headword occurs. Phanodemos FGrH 352 F8 locates the Leokor(e)ion "in the middle of the Kerameikos"; cf. lambda 262. (Not yet securely identified in excavation: see J.M. …
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275
Λεώς
people
… (the first gloss here); Attic is lew/s (the headword), from
Ionic
lho/s with quantitative metathesis. Both lew/s and lho/s occur in the text of Herodotus. See LSJ s.v.
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280
Λεωφόρος
people-carrying
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at Photius lambda189 Theodoridis. Such entries presumably stem from Homer, Iliad 15.682 (laofo/ron kaq' o(do/n), although the spelling is later Attic/Ionic.
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317
Λευκάς
Leukas, Leucas, Levkas
… grids B2-D3). Leukas is a large island/peninsula extending into the
Ionian
Sea from the west coast of Epeiros (Barrington Atlas map 54 grid C4).
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331
Λευκοθέη
Leukothea, Leucothea, White Goddess
… Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (338). The headword is the
Ionic
dialect version of the name of the sea-goddess Ino, in Homer (Odyssey 5.333-4, web address 1); 'Ino Leukothea' in Pindar (Pythian 11.2, web …
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407
Λήδη
Lede
The epic/Ionic dialect version of Leda (lambda 406); cf. iota 471.
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559
Λιμώττω
I am famished
… epsilon 2096, lambda 547, mu 384, sigma 668) glossed with
Ionic.
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581
Λιπαρεῖτε μένοντες
keep holding out
The headword is an Atticised version of the
Ionic
phrase lipare/ete me/nontes in Herodotus 9.45.2: speech of King Alexander I of Macedon to the Athenians (web address 1). Same entry in the Synagoge, Photius, …
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699
Λοφιή
crest, mane
Epic/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 …
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741
Λωτίη
lotus-crown, lotus-wreath
… to Adler) in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The form would be
Ionic
dialect, but its metrical structure is unsuitable for epic verse. cf. lambda 740, lambda 742, lambda 743.
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813
Λυκορραίστης
wolf-worrier
… Page read (vol. II, 414) lukorrai/stas, instead of the Suda's
Ionic
form here.
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847
Λυπρή
wretched
[1] Epic/Ionic feminine of the adjective lupro/s (here in the nominative singular, perhaps quoted from Homer, Odyssey 13.243), for which see also lambda 846, lambda 848. It occurs in the dative in the quotation …
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