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Λαβρότατος
most intemperate, very intemperate
[Meaning]
most/very
excessive.
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Λαλίστατον
most talkative, very talkative
… called this is someone with a good tongue and a
most/very
pleasant voice.
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506
Λιγυρώτατον
most shrill, very shrill
[Meaning]
most/very
loud-rattling.
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λ
491
Λίβερνος
Libernos, Libernus
… that the earth would seal itself back together if the
most
valuable thing among humankind was pitched into the chasm, so some of them brought gold, and others silver, others their crops, and others …
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297
Λεπτολογία
subtle argument
… you [priest] of the thinnest foolishnesses." That is, of the
most
intelligent and
most
obscure discourses."
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λ
686
Λούκιος Σέργιος Κατιλῖνος
Lucius Sergius Catilina
… of his fatherland, having bound in loyalty to himself the
most
rash and venturesome of the patricians. It is said that, after he sacrificed a man, the conspirers tasted the blood, as he brought …
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325
Λευκὴ στάθμη
white measuring-line
… for making a mark on surfaces that are not white,
most
commentators take it as referring to a bare line, untreated with the customary red or black powder (cf. Moeris 202.24; scholion to Homer, …
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8
Λάβραξ
bass
… is easily caught. In Miletus of Asia the largest and
most
numerous bass occur. Miletus [is] a city of Asia, where many bass occur, because of the marsh debouching into the sea. The fish, …
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64
Λακωνικαὶ κλεῖδες
Lakonian keys, Laconian keys
… they are famous. "For the husbands now carry secret keys,
most
ill-natured ones, certain Lakonian ones, with [three] teeth. So previously it was possible, for women who had had a three-obol seal-ring made, to …
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130
Λαρυγγίζειν
to croak
… stood around up and down, making a row and squawking
most
impudently, in the way crows croak."
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λ
254
Λεόντιος
Leontios, Leontius
… the bishops and wished to rule even over the churches,
most
[of the bishops] applauded and marveled as whatever he said, declaring that it was very well stated; but [Leontios] kept silent. And when …
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311
Λεσχίδης
Leschides
… poet. He joined King Eumenes on campaign. He was the
most
famous of the poets [?who did so?]. Companions of this man were Pythias the historian and Menander, a doctor.
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678
Λορδόν
bent backwards, convex
[Meaning] something humped. Also [sc. attested is the superlative] lordo/taton
["most/very
bent"], [meaning something] bent upwards and opposite to the curved [sc. shape, i.e. concave]; that which is also called "stooping".
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685
Λουκιανὸς
Loukianos, Lucianus, Lucian
… greatest degree among his contemporaries. For he also published doubtless
most
excellent letters, from which one may very easily learn what idea he held of divine matters. He was martyred in the time of …
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688
Λούκουλλος
Lucullus
… of the Armenians. Lucullus waged war on Tigranes too, capturing
most
of his cities and laying siege to [sc. the capital] Tigranocerta. Observing the Roman [army] and calculating that it was easy to count, …
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739
Λώτ
Lot
… served idols and worshiped Beelphegor, and participated in sacrifices. But
Moses
incited against them those who had not sinned, and twenty-four thousand were killed. Phineas the priest seized an Israelite named Zambri, who had …
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11
Λαβύρινθος
labyrinth
… the "labyrinth in the sea" addressed in the quotation is
most
likely metaphorical of some oceanic mollusk with a convoluted shell.
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70
Λακρατίδης
Lakratides, Lacratides; Lakrateides
… Aristophanes, Acharnians 220. Develin (below) 48 dates Lakrateides -- the
most
authentic version of his name -- to the period 521/20-512/11. Broadly similar material, more briefly, in Hesychius lambda217 and Photius lambda55 (where the …
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96
Λαμπρίας
Lamprias
… 1793. [2] This catalogue is preserved in several manuscripts (the
most
ancient being Parisinus gr. 1678 from the XIIth century), in some preceded with a letter. The letter is a forgery, dating from the …
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100
Λαμπρῶς
brilliantly, brightly, clearly
[1] Thucydides 2.7.1 and scholia, though the citations probably come
most
directly from Photius, Lexicon lambda78 Theodoridis (who has the whole of this opening part of the entry). The treaty in question, the Thirty …
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262
Λεωκόριον
Leokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine
… The daughters were probably worshipped at the Leokoreion, which was
most
probably somewhere in the Agora, although a few of the sources refer to it being e)n me/sw| tw=| *kerameikw=| (notably Harpokration s.v. Leokoreion, …
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267
Λέων
Leon, Leo
… reign, with bibliography. See Blockley [below] for another translation of
most
of this entry (vol. 2: 409 & 411) and for a brief discussion of the Suda's use of Malchus (vol. 1: 125), who …
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302
Λέρνη θεατῶν
Lerna of spectators, Lerne of spectators
… 'cesspool of spectators' (see n. 3 below). The place was
most
famous for being the site of one of the Labours of Herakles, the killing of the Lernaian Hydra (see n. 2 below). [1] …
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313
Λευί
Levi
… second see also ps-Zonaras 1293. [1] cf. under mu 1348
(Moses),
and Genesis 29:34 LXX. [2] cf. under kappa 1784.
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389
Λειποστράτιον
army-abandoning, lipostration
… suggests that lipostration was desertion, and this is also the
most
likely conclusion to be drawn from a scholion to Aristophanes, Knights 226, which reports that on some occasion Kleon (kappa 1731) accused the …
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441
Λῆμα
will
cf. lambda 445. This entry
mostly
succeeds in distinguishing lh=ma and lh=mma; lambda 443 does less well. [1] Same glossing, variously, in other lexica (and scholia). The gloss ke/rdos is more appropriate to lh=mma: …
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594
Λίποιμι
I might leave
… lei/pw, first person singular. It must be quoted from somewhere;
most
probably from Plato, Apology 29A (web address 1), a passage quoted by Stobaeus, though other extant possibilities include Euripides and Callimachus.
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604
Λίσποι
smooths; half-dice
… read) in the original passage in Aristophanes' Frogs on which
most
discussions of the headword are based (826-30: web address 2). The chorus of the play are balancing the merits of Aeschylus' style against …
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764
Λοισθώνη
incontinent
… unattested outside lexicography. Of the lexica, Hesychius lambda1248 is the
most
informative, citing the word in the masculine accusative plural (evidently quoted from somewhere) and glossing it as "those unrestrained in their sexual appetites".
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768
Λύγδινα
marble-white
… white marble (cf. pi 643 and pi 644) was the
most
famous sculpting stone in antiquity, renowned for its purity and whiteness; cf. Gow and Page (vol. II, 140) and Blümner (31-34). [3] Babrius, …
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