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- λ784ΛυδιάζωνLydianizing, playing the Lydian… Hesychius lambda1352 it is ludi/zwn; cf. lambda 785. [1] For Magnes see generally mu 20, where his play Lydians is mentioned. The present allusion to it derives from ancient comment on a passage partially …
- λ400Λείψανονremainder, remainscf. ps.-Herodian 78, Etymologicum Magnum 563.5. For the headword see already under alpha 1732. Same glossing word at lambda 362.
- λ459Ληνίςlenis[1] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 564.4 (also lambda 565 and sigma 273).
- λ122Λαρινόςfat, fatted… according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (65). (Contrast Etymologicum Magnum 557.10, deriving the word from rhinos, skin, with the intensifier la.) cf. lambda 121 (and lambda 120).
- λ343Λεύσετεyou gaze… Iliad 1.120 (web address 1), paralleled in Hesychius; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 562.8, and Apion.
- λ242Λελιημένοςlonging forcf. Hesychius lambda620; Etymologicum Genuinum lambda60; Etymologicum Magnum 560.3; scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.465 (web address 1), and 5.690 (web address 2), where the headword (masculine nominative singular participle of the defective epic perfect …
- λ606Λίστροισιwith spades, with shovels… gloss is not that of the scholia there or Etymologicum Magnum 567.18 (which is toi=s custh=rsin, "with the scrapers"), but is, according to Adler, that of the Ambrosian Lexicon. cf. generally lambda 605.
- λ162Λαχανίζεσθαιto vegetable-gatherSame entry in Photius, Lexicon lambda124 Theodoridis; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 558.14. This middle voice of the verb laxani/zein is otherwise unattested. Greek la/xanon, vegetable (lambda 164), yields a number of compounds (cf. lambda 160, …
- λ856Λύσῃshould release… [1] Plato, Laws 9.882B (on what is to happen in Magnesia when a slave strikes a free man). Read pei/sh| "persuade" instead of pai/sh| "strike" (see web address 1).
- λ635Λογάδεςwhites of the eye… loga/s (B). [1] cf. Orion [Author, Myth], Etymologicum lambda92; Etymologicum Magnum 572.36 (citing a fragment of Callimachus); scholia to Nicander, Theriaca 292. [2] Greek Anthology 5.270.5-6 (Paul the Silentiary). Here 'hyacinth' is not the …
- λ535Λίκνονwinnowing-fan… 361, and Choeroboscus, De orthographia p. 236 line 28; Etymologicum Magnum 562.44. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler tentatively ascribed it to Aelian.) [3] This figurative sense (of what is anyway an extremely rare word) is …
- λ794ΛυκαβηττὸςLykabettos, Lycabettus… its being a "mountain" of a quite different order of magnitude.
- λ208Λαῖφοςlaiphos… 76 Boissonade), the Etymologicum Gudianum, the Etymological Genuinum, the Etymologicum Magnum, ps.-Zonaras and Gennadius Scholarius, Grammar p. 463, all define it as just "sail" (with the folk etymology li/an fai/nesqai "very much to be …
- λ662Λογγῶνοςmooring-stone, pierced-stone… (claimed as a Syracusan word in Etymologicum Genuinum and Etymologicum Magnum); note, however, that such a genitive singular appears only here, and may be in error for the nominative plural loggw=nes in other lexica. …
- λ634Λοβόςlobe… Nicander, Theriaca 536. [5] cf. Orion [Author, Myth] ap. Etymologicum Magnum 570.37.
- λ398Λειτουργικήliturgical… which precedes even 'priestly', see next note. [2] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 562.54 (via Choeroboscus). See also lambda 397, alpha 2758, alpha 4090, delta 541, delta 866, kappa 2562, tau 974; and generally OCD(4) s.v. …
- λ12Λάγαναmeal-cakes… Exodus 29.2, Leviticus 2.4 & 7.12. [2] cf. generally Etymologicum Magnum 554.11-13. [3] An approximation of Aristophanes, Wasps 674. See again at lambda 14; also eta 589, tau 886. [4] Adler cites as a …
- λ763Λοῖσθοςlast, final, remaining… combination of Hesychius lambda1245 (nominative) and lambda1247 (dative); cf. Etymologicum Magnum 58.45 (and lambda 762). Probably (as Latte claims) from commentary to Homer, Iliad 23.536 where the headword occurs; cf. Apollonius, Homeric Lexicon 109.3. …