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- λ861ΛυσιμάχειαLysimakheia, Lysimacheia, Lysimachea… generated the present entry -- was the one founded by Lysimachos (see OCD(4) s.v., and under alpha 1862, etc.) as capital for his Thrakian realm. This was on the site of Polis Agora (present-day …
- λ868ΛυσίστρατοςLysistratos, Lysistratus[Lysistratos] and Thoumantis: paupers. Aristophanes [writes]: "to give no offence to Lysistratos, nor to Thoumantis the hearthless, with a willing heart".
- λ862ΛυσίμαχοςLysimachos, Lysimachus… son of Aristides the Just. [sc. But it is another Lysimachus] whom Lycurgus mentions [as] a worthless lyric poet.
- λ863ΛύσιπποςLysippos, LysippusOld Comedy; OCD(4) s.v. Lysippus(1), by W.G. Arnott. [1] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.124D [3.98 Kaibel] and 8.344E [8.33]. [2] (The names of one or more plays have evidently been lost.) For the thyrsus see theta …
- λ866ΛυσιτελῶI profit[Used] with a dative.
- λ864Λύσιςloosing, release[no gloss]
- λ860ΛυσικράτηςLysikrates, Lysicrates… [be blacker] if you had boiled the potion with which Lysikrates blackens himself". And elsewhere: "will the nose of Lysikrates be as proud as [that of] handsome men?". For he was snub-nosed and disreputable …
- λ855Λῦσαι Λύσιςto loose, to release[sc. is attested]; but [sc. so is the cognate abstract noun] loosing/releasing.
- λ859Λυσίζωνος γυνήgirdle-loosening woman[Meaning] she who has drawn near to a man. For virgins about to have sex dedicated their virginal lingerie to Artemis.
- λ867Λύσιοι τελεταίdeliverance rites, deliverance rituals… set each other free, and established a shrine of Dionysos Lysios [Deliverer] -- according to Heraclides Ponticus. But Aristophanes [says that the name came about] because of the Thebans' ransoming of the grapevine from …
- λ865Λυσιτελέςprofitable[Meaning something] good, advantageous, or suitable; because "[good] defrays what is expended on it, so that the return from the transaction creates s surplus in benefit." And Diodorus the Sicilian says: "Tryphon [...] prepared …
- λ858ΛυσίαςLysias[Lysias,] son of Kephalos; a Syracusan, an orator, pupil of T[e]isias and of Nikias, one of the 10 orators [sc. selected as the best] with Demosthenes. He was born in Athens, after Kephalos had …
- λ695ΛουσίαLousia[An Attic deme], the demesmen of which [are] Lousieis. And [the singular is] Lousieus; [Lousia is] a deme of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Oineis.
- λ17ΛαγίσκαLagiska, LagiscaA certain courtesan, whom Lysias mentions.
- λ321Λευκὴ ἀκτήWhite HeadlandThere being many White [Headlands], Lysias mentions the one in the Propontis.
- λ526Λιθουργικὴstone-working… that each of their works takes on a good appearance. Lysias in the [speech] In reply to Nausias, concerning the carving [writes]: "[...] but because there are three skills in the work, stone-working and …
- λ236Λέκιθοςpease-pudding, pulse… the female seed-seller. And [sc. the word also occurs] in Lysistrata: "by Zeus, I myself saw a long-haired man, a phylarch on a horse, putting into a bronze cap pease-pudding [sc. that he had …
- λ164Λαχάνοις(among) vegetables[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 556, where the dative-plural headword occurs (Lysistrata complains of armed and disruptive soldiers swaggering through the marketplace 'among the pots and among the vegetables'): see web address …
- λ812Λυκόποδεςwolf-feet, white-feet… had a wolf symbol on their shields. But Aristophanes in Lysistrata is speaking of the Alkmaionids. For these men declared war on Hippias the tyrant and the Peisistratids and fortified Leipsydrion, above [Mount] Parnes; …
- λ578Λιπαρέςobstinate[1] Just-So etymology given in the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 673. The form is cited in the neuter singular (of lambda 583) there too, to make the etymology work better. [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 673-675 …
- λ833Λύματαlumata[Meaning] pledges/securities. As lusima ["redeemable things"] and lutrosima ["ransomable things"].
- λ347ΛέχαιονLechaion, Lechaeum… Harpokration s.v., commenting on the appearance of this place-name in Lysias fr. 179 Sauppe (now 225 Carey OCT), and citing Strabo (8.6.22) for the information given. On the Corinthian Gulf; the western-facing counterpart to …
- λ449Λήμνιον πῦρLemnian fire… on the proverbial phrase 'Lemnian fire' which occurs in Aristophanes, Lysistrata 299. For Lemnos cf. lambda 448 and the other cross-references there.
- λ790Λύειlooses, pays… s.v. V.2. on (te/lh) lu/ein used in the sense of lusitelei=n; and generally lambda 865, lambda 866.
- λ98Λαμπροφόροιlamp-bearersFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1003; see already at alpha 3344. [1] Aristophanes' words themselves are not actually quoted (and the present headword is not amongst them anyway).
- λ339Λεύκωμαwhiteboard… Photius lambda227 Theodoridis. For these 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 …
- λ715Λόχμηthicket, undergrowthAristophanes, Lysistrata 800, where the quoted phrase occurs (and Phormion is mentioned in line 804; comment from the scholia to both of these lines). The reference is specifically to pubic hair: see Henderson ad …
- λ854Λυσσάνιεo good sir[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1171, where the vocative lissa/nie (Laconian dialect for a)gaqe/) occurs -- but the scholiast and the lexicographer take it for lussa/nie, "o rabid one". [2] Synesius Letter …
- λ67ΛακωνικόςLaconic… (and cf. lambda 68). [3] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 276, where the phrase occurs. See LSJ under pne/w, V. For the "way of thinking" idiom cf. already lambda 62.
- λ718Λόχοςcompany, troop… headword lo/xos (again lambda 719) see LSJ s.v. [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 451-454 (web address 1)-- here ludicrously misquoted: for 'men', read women. [3] Abridged from the scholia thereto.