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λ86ΛαμπάδιονtorchletWhat they now call a torch. So Dinarchus and Plato [sc. use the term].Matched in translationhighshort
λ856Λύσῃshould releaseMeaning let him release. [It occurs in book] 9 of [Plato's] Laws. "The owner takes him, bound, from the man struck, and should not release him until the slave can persuade the man struck …Matched in translationhighshort
λ519Λιθολόγοιmasons… which literally means pickers-out of stone(s), is quoted here from Plato, Laws 858B, where it appears in the dative plural (web address 1); cf. the scholia there; also Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and other lexica …Matched in noteshighshort
λ659Λογοτόποςsummary syllogism… [is] a combination of both, as for example in "if Plato is alive, Plato is breathing; but the first [is true], therefore the second [is true]". The summary syllogism was introduced in order that, …Matched in translationhighshort
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line= Pausanias the Atticist lambda14; cf. Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 994a17; a scholion to Plato, Charmides 154B [see below]; Aelius Dionysius lambda8, Hesychius lambda789, Photius lambda220 Theodoridis, Zenobius 4.89, [Diogenianus] 6.8, Gregorius 2.67 Apostolius 10.64. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ244Λέμμαhusk, rind… references at Photius lambda179 Theodoridis) and in the scholia to Plato, Timaeus 76A (where the headword occurs: web address 1). For the headword cf. under alpha 3379.Matched in noteshighshort
λ661Λόγοισιν Ἑρμόδωρος ἐμπορεύεταιHermodoros is a shipper in speechesHermodoros became a student of Plato, took his collected works and was selling them in Sicily.Matched in translationhighshort
λ521Λίθον ἕψειςyou are boiling a stoneProverb invoked in Aristophanes, Wasps 280 (web address 1); cf. [Plato], Eryxias 405B; Apostolius 10.68, etc.Matched in noteshighshort
λ369Λειόβατοςsmooth-trodden… (a ray or skate): Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.312B (7.89 Kaibel) quoting Plato Comicus (fr. 137 Kock, now 146 K.-A.), Hesychius, ps.-Herodian.Matched in noteshighshort
λ135Λασιόκωφοςhairy-mute… (see the references at Photius lambda110 Theodoridis), as if from Plato, Phaedrus 253E, but in fact it is a false reading of two separate words: see web address 1. [1] By dint of being …Matched in noteshighshort
λ819Λυκόστομοςwolf-mouth… Polybius 7.13.7 -- abridged: he attributes 'the Arcadian story' to Plato (Republic 565D) -- on Philip V of Macedon (phi 355).Matched in noteshighshort
λ250Λέοντα ξυρᾷςyou are shaving a lion… in Photius (and the paroemiographers), and cf. the scholia to Plato, Republic 341C (where the phrase 'attempting to shave a lion' occurs). See web address 1. [2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to …Matched in noteshighshort
λ528Λίθων ποτίμωνof drinking stones, of porous stonesSame entry in Photius lambda306 Theodoridis. [1] Plato, Laws 12.947D (on the construction of a tomb for a Scrutineer), where in fact the reading is in doubt: poti/mwn, as here (and in Photius), or …Matched in noteshighshort
λ823ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… lambda 824. The present material comes from the scholia to Plato, Republic 599D (where L. is mentioned). [1] 58 in the scholion (and 8 in some of the Suda mss). [2] That L. was …Matched in noteshighshort

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