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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
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
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
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
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