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- λ566Λίνον λίνῳ συνάπτειςyou are joining linen with linen[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who mix similar things, or who are deceived and demand [something] back. Strattis in Rivers [sc. uses the phrase].
- λ569ΛίνοςLinos, Linus… are told by the Thebans, how that later than this Linus there was born another, a teacher of music called the son of Ismenias, and how Heracles while still a child killed him".
- 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. …
- λ568ΛίνοςLinos, LinusOf Chalcis, [son] of Apollo and Terpsichore, but others [say] of Amphimaros and Ourania, others of Hermes and Ourania. This man is said to have been the first to bring the alphabet from Phoenicia …
- λ571Λινοπτωμένηnet-watching… is the feminine nominative singular, present participle, of the verb linopta/omai. Its masculine counterpart linoptw/menos is the contested reading transmitted in Aristophanes, Peace 1178. The scholia there attribute to Aristotle the definition "those who …
- λ567Λινοπλῆγοςnet-shy[Meaning] frenzied. The nominative [form is] linoplh/c.
- λ572Λίνοςflax, flaxen thread… a net. But [sc. when attested as a proper name] 'Linos' [is] a philosopher among Thebans.