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- λ317ΛευκάςLeukas, Leucas, Levkas… its mention in Demosthenes 9.34 and going on to cite Strabo and Menander. NF: its status as an island was disputed, as it was only separated from the mainland by a mud-flat, through which …
- λ34ΛάδωνοςLadon, Lado… was in western Arkadia (Peloponnese), flowing through Stratos; see e.g. Strabo 8.8.4. (There was another which emptied into the southern shore of the Black Sea).
- λ150Λατύπηchips of stone; gypsum… I "the chips of stone in hewing", as used in Strabo 17.1.34, rather than the more common sense II, "gypsum, lime". (It is also how the term is used in tau 988.) The sense …
- λ347ΛέχαιονLechaion, Lechaeum… 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 Kenchreai (kappa 1220).
- λ359ΛείβηθραLeibethra… which notes also upper-case Leibethron, a mountainous district of Thrake; Strabo 9.2.25, etc.
- λ752ΛοιδίαςLoidias… lake associated with it) as Loudias, the version favoured by Strabo 7a.1.20-23. [1] Aeschines 2.124 (web address 1), where the reading is conventionally corrected from the transmitted 'Lydias'.
- λ153ΛαυρέντειαLaurenteia, Laurentia, Laurentum… was supposed to have arrived in Latium (central Italy). See Strabo 5.3.2 and others. Arcadius also mentions a Laurentos in Sicily.
- λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… says that the sun never looked down on its like. Strabo says that so effortlessly did the Romans bring about the slaughter of this great mass of men that after the engagement they laughed …
- λ829ΛυκώρειαLykoreus, Lykorian… Byzantium classifies it as a "village in Delphi"; see also Strabo 9.3.3.
- λ508Λιγυστικὸν πέλαγοςLigustican sea, Ligurian sea… Italy (Map 16). For the present headword phrase see e.g. Strabo 2.4.3, 2.5.19.
- λ16Λαγίδηςhare-ish, leveret; Lagid… has no entry of his own. For this see e.g. Strabo 17.1.10: the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra end the long 'empire of the Lagidai.'
- λ769ΛυγαῖοςLygaian, Lugaean, Lugian?, Leugaian?, of the twilight… being the name of a mythological figure (grandfather of Penelope: Strabo 10.2.24), is thus most commonly met as an adjective meaning gloomy or murky or shadowy. Since the equivalent entry in ps.-Zonaras contains the …
- λ546ΛιμηράLimera… Thucydides 4.58.2, 6.105.2; Pausanias 3.21.7, 3.23.6 & 10), but see Strabo 8.6.1 (web address 1): "Apollodorus observes that this city, because it has a good harbour [limen], was called limenera, which was abbreviated and …
- λ276ΛεωσθένηςLeosthenes… II: Dinarchus and Hypereides (Warminster 2000) 205-25]; Diodorus Siculus 18.13.5; Strabo 9.5.10; Justin 13.5.12; Pausanias 1.25.5, 3.6.1.