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- λ832Λυμαντικόςdestroyer… In Classical Greek the primary headword lumanth/r occurs only in Xenophon, Hiero 3.3 (accusative plural, of seducers). [2] Attested in Empedocles fr.84 Diels/Kranz, and Hermarchus fr.34 Longo Auricchio; also in (e.g.) Philo Judaeus and …
- λ229Λεηλατῆσαιto drive off, to plunder… quoted from somewhere, the extant possibilities include Herodotus (5.101.1) and Xenophon (Cyropaedia 1.4.17). [2] Third person singular, present indicative active, of the same verb; perhaps quoted from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.51.1.
- λ419ΛήθωI cause [someone] to forget… quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities (e.g. Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Apollonius Rhodius, Lucian).
- λ60Λάκκοςpit, reservoir, tank… web address 1; for the kind glossed here see e.g. Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.22. For a metaphorical use of the word see lambda 61. For lakkos-compounds see lambda 58, lambda 59.
- λ801ΛύκειονLykeion, Lyceum… (web address 1). For the Lykeion as a parade-ground cf. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.33. [1] The phraseology is slightly different in the scholion: e)do/koun rather than the Suda's e)do/kei.
- λ384Λειποναῦταιnavy-deserters… Athenians prior to the battle of Aigospotamoi (405 BCE). See Xenophon, Hellenica 2.1.31: the Athenians resolved to cut off the right hands of all those they captured if they won the battle. See also …
- λ106Λαμυρόνgreedy, wanton… 2303. [4] Evidently quoted from somewhere; there are possibilities in Xenophon and elsewhere.
- λ824ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… of the present entry is a reworking of material in Xenophon, Lakedaimonion Politeia and Plutarch, Lykourgos; see also n.10 below. [1] cf. gamma 486. [2] diamasti/gwsis, also mentioned by Plutarch, Moralia [Spartan Sayings] 239D. …