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27 entries for a plot [against someone]

λ326Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳsomeone white like Nikias sprang upA misquotation of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 428 (where the "someone" is not feminine, as here, but masculine, after the noun "youth"; see web address 1). Comment from the scholia on the line follows. This early-fourth-century …Matched in noteshighshort
λ381Λειπομαρτυρίου δίκηsuit against a recalcitrant witnessThey [i.e. the Athenians] used to bring a lawsuit against those who knew something of what had happened and promised to give evidence in court, but later absconded; and if convicted, [the defendants] would …Matched in translationhighshort
λ660Λόγου τυχεῖνto get a wordMeaning [to get] praise. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Ktesiphon [sc. uses the phrase].Matched in translationhighshort
λ825ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… rescued them. The authentic speeches of Lykourgos, as preserved, are: Against Aristogeiton, Against Autolykos, Against Leokrates, Against Lykophron - two, Against Pasikles, Against Menaichmos, Against Demades, Defence of himself, In support of the accounts, …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ481Λιασθείςhaving fallen, having sunk[Meaning someone] having turned aside.Matched in translationhighshort
λ814ΛύκοςLykos, Lycus… under the Successors [sc. of Alexander the Great] and was plotted against by Demetrios of Phaleron. This man wrote a history of Libya, and about Sicily.Matched in translationhighshort
λ105Λαμψακηνῶνof Lampsacenes, of LampsakenesOn the wrath of Alexander against them, look under Anaximenes.Matched in translationhighshort
λ20Λάγνοςlecher[sc. Male] prostitute, low-life, [someone] obsessed by sex.Matched in translationhighshort
λ376Λειώσαςgrinding smooth, pounding fine[Meaning someone] cutting up.Matched in translationhighshort
λ337Λευκόχρωςpale-fleshed, white-fleshed[Meaning someone] having a pale/white body. In the Epigrams: "Daphnis the pale/white-fleshed, making music with a fine pan-pipe".Matched in translationhighshort
λ618ΛιτήLite, Lete[sc. A city] of Macedonia; Hyperides in the [speech] Against Demades mentions it.Matched in translationhighshort
λ657Λογοποιῶνstory-telling[Meaning someone] fabricating false stories.Matched in translationhighshort
λ591Λιποτάκτηςdeserter, post-deserter… Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] leipotakth/sas, [meaning someone] having abandoned, having fled.Matched in translationhighshort
λ553ΛίμνοςLimnos, Limnus[1] That of a conspirator against Alexander the Great (in Plutarch, Alexander 49). [2] i.e. a masculine form of li/mnh, for which see lambda 551.Matched in noteshighshort
λ268ΛέωνLeon, LeoThis man was sent as general by Eutropius the eunuch against the barbarians. He was easily-satisfied and, on account of care for strong drink, easily led astray. For his manhood compelled him to have …Matched in translationhighshort
λ523Λίθος[the] stoneDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Konon [writes]: "leading to the stone one by one, like this, our witnesses who were present and putting them on oath". So Athenians seem to have made oaths at …Matched in translationhighshort
λ28Λαγῷ πεινῶντι καὶ πλακοῦντες εἰς σῦκαfor a starving hare even flatcakes [serve] as figsA proverb directed against those reckoning things as valuable in [a situation of] necessity. Interpretation of a dream: a hare appearing makes an unlucky path [of life].Matched in translationhighshort
λ141Λάσταυροςeffeminate, nancy-boy[A term for] a male whore, hairy in the rump, someone being shaggy-arsed; he who is hairy in the arse. "If any amongst the Greeks or the non-Greeks [was] an effeminate in his ways, …Matched in translationhighshort
λ281ΛεωχάρηςLeochares… probably here because it is the name of other Athenians against whom both Demosthenes and Dinarchus (cf. delta 288) wrote lawcourt speeches.Matched in noteshighshort
λ776ΛυγκεύςLynkeus, Lynceus… of Menander the comic poet and produced plays in competition against him and won.Matched in translationhighshort
λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… that the king's fleet was at anchor nearby; he sailed against it and was victorious in the sea-battle, killing everyone including the general Isidoros. Mithridates fled to Tigranes, the king of the Armenians. Lucullus …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ82ΛαμβάνωI take[1] In the sense of grasping or seizing someone/something by a body-part in the genitive case. See LSJ s.v., under I.1.a. [2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as from …Matched in noteshighshort
λ807ΛυκιουργίςLykian-ware, Lycian-wareDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Timotheos uses the expression. Didymos asserts that the bowls manufactured by Lykios the son of Myron were referred to in this way. But the grammarian seems to be unaware …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ200Λαισποδίας τὴν φύσινa natural Laispodias… Alternatively, according to the dictionary of Ixion, [the headword means someone] of unrestrained sexual appetite, leading him to fuck [spodein] even farm-animals.Matched in translationhighshort
λ93Λάμπων ὄμνυσι τὸν χῆν' ὅταν ἐξαπατᾷ τινάLampon swears by the goose whenever he is deceiving somebody… supposedly prophetic bird. It is therefore said of those deceiving someone with an oath. Sybaris [was] an Athenian colony.Matched in translationhighshort
λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wicked… the white or the orthios nomos." From the saying 'if someone knows [the difference between] the white and the black'. But some say that Arignotos was a kithara-player who sang the so-called orthios nomos …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… where a white line, chalked or unchalked, would be useless against a white background. For other applications of the phrase see Libanius, Epistles 481.2; Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's De caelo 7.404. [1] Sophocles fr. …Matched in noteshighshort

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