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λ271Λέων λέων σοι γέγονεν ἔκμαγμα σόνa lion a lion has been born to you (as) your (very) imageIn reference to women being debauched and giving birth. A 'cell' [is] the cover of the acorn, where the acorn is situated. "Both in each and every other respect and in having a penis …Matched in headwordhighshort
λ139ΛάσοςLasos, LasusSon of Charbinos, of Hermione, a city of Achaia; born in the 58th Olympiad, when Dareios the son of Hystaspes [sc. was also born]. Some include him in the count of the Seven Sages, …Matched in translationhighshort
λ670ΛολλιανόςLollianos, LollianusOf Ephesus, sophist, pupil of Is[s]aios the Assyrian; born under Caesar Hadrian. He wrote many things.Matched in translationhighshort
λ569ΛίνοςLinos, Linus… the Thebans, how that later than this Linus there was born another, a teacher of music called the son of Ismenias, and how Heracles while still a child killed him".Matched in noteshighshort
λ137ΛασίοιςshaggyThe saying [is] about Philoctetes: "This man perhaps second to none of the first-born families, lies ill-fated [more] than all in life, alone [far] from others, with dappled or shaggy beasts."Matched in translationhighshort
λ823ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, LycurgusA Spartan, a lawgiver; born 50 years after the Trojan wars. He was a paternal uncle of King Charilaos of Sparta, and a brother of Eunomos. And he was in control of the Spartans …Matched in translationhighshort
λ858ΛυσίαςLysias… orators [sc. selected as the best] with Demosthenes. He was born in Athens, after Kephalos had migrated there [sc. from Sicily]. At the age of 15 he moved to Thourioi with two [of his] …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ685ΛουκιανὸςLoukianos, Lucianus, Lucian[Lucian] the martyr; this man was from Samosata in Syria, born in the upper class. In his youth he met a certain man called Makarios, who lived in Edessa and gave explanatory lectures on …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ33Λάγυνοςflask, flagon… the bibliography below) or, more briefly, OCD(4) p.148. [1] Aphrodite, born in the sea off Cyprus (kappa 2738). See the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. [2] An Homeric formula (delta 128). [3] This unparalleled and …Matched in noteshighshort
λ824ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, LycurgusSpartiate, descendant of Prokles; lawgiver. They say he got his laws either from Crete or from the god. The Pythia also addressed him as a god. This man also legislated for physical training for …Matched in translationhighlong
λ683ΛουκιανόςLoukianos, Lucianus, LucianBorn c.120 CE. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Lucian (by G. Anderson), and for full accounts J.A. Hall, Lucian's Satire (New York: Arno 1981) 1-63; C.P. Jones, Culture and Society in Lucian (Cambridge: Harvard 1986) …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ159Λαφύστιοςgourmandising, greedy… a general adjective and also as an epithet/manifestation of both Zeus (Herodotus 7.197.1) and Dionysus; see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
λ692Λουτράbaths… enjoyment for those who appear [...] giving himself to be borne down along the current, he became a slave of pleasure."Matched in translationhighshort
λ360Λεῖκνονwinnowing-basketA Bacchic adornment. "Or a winnowing-basket often borne atop his headbanded hair". In the Epigrams.Matched in translationhighshort
λ138Λάσθηmockery… mockery and laughter the Messenians scattered the first offerings of Zeus, as if [they were] a plaything of the Spartans".Matched in translationhighshort
λ236Λέκιθοςpease-pudding, pulse… seed-seller. And [sc. the word also occurs] in Lysistrata: "by Zeus, I myself saw a long-haired man, a phylarch on a horse, putting into a bronze cap pease-pudding [sc. that he had bought] from …Matched in translationhighshort
λ158Λάφυραbooty… references at Photius lambda121 Theodoridis) -- is attractive but not borne out by usage; see W.K. Pritchett, The Greek State at War, I (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1971) 53-58.Matched in noteshighshort
λ465Λῆξιςallotment, cessation… "on the cessation of that period (a cessation which, by Zeus, was hardly fortunate), he hurled himself like a lightning bolt onto the evils of the Egyptians, in Alexander's City and Rome." [Note] that …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ84ΛαμίαLamia… his Libyan Histories, was a beautiful woman in Libya; after Zeus had mated with her, Hera was jealous and killed her children; hence, out of grief, she became mis-shapen and snatched and killed everyone …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ121Λαρινοὶ βόεςLarinian oxen, fatted oxen… But Proxenos [says] that Heracles himself dedicated some to Dodonian Zeus; and Apollodorus for his part [says that] well-fed oxen [are called] larinoi ["fatted"]; for [the verb] larineuein means to feed up. Aristophanes in …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ853Λυσανίας πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶνgrief-dispeller of his father's great troubles… of his father. The word is a coinage. Sophokles: "May Zeus bring a return home that is victorious and that ends all grief and that is free from fear."Matched in translationhighshort
λ797ΛυκάωνLykaon, Lukaon, Lycaon… wanted to keep his subjects from injustice he said that Zeus came to him all the time, in the guise of a mortal guest, to inspect both the just and unjust. And one time, …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ799ΛύκαιονLykaion, Lycaeum… and more broadly an adjective/epithet meaning 'Arkadian', used especially of Zeus. See LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
λ609Λῖταlinen-cloths… for the Suda's li=ta. On this epigram, Trajan's dedication to Zeus, see Page (561-563) and its further extracts at epsilon 1586, kappa 454, and kappa 2391. As Page notes (562), the emendation to de/pa …Matched in noteshighshort
λ174Λαιάleft [hand]… "in Hesychius we have lai/ba, i.e. lai/va, = a)spi/s, because borne on the left arm." [1] (More exactly, "bester", for the term appears to be a comparative formed on the stem of a superlative.) …Matched in noteshighshort
λ96ΛαμπρίαςLamprias… of Lamprias [which was however a name within the family, borne by his grandfather and his brother: DW], the catalogue shows a lack of knowledge of Plutarch’s works one would not expect to see …Matched in noteshighshort