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λ681Λορδουμένωνarching backwardsAristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 10 (referring to a lamp), with scholion. The headword participle, genitive plural neuter, is extracted from the quiotation. For this verb see already lambda 680; and cf. also lambda 678, lambda 679.Matched in noteshighshort
λ59Λακκόπρωκτοςpit-arse, tank-arseAristophanes, Clouds 1329-1330 (web address 1). The lexicographer quotes these two lines in reverse order and without regard to the speakers, who are the befuddled and battered Strepsiades and his sophistic son Pheidippides. Note …Matched in noteshighshort
λ521Λίθον ἕψειςyou are boiling a stoneProverb invoked in Aristophanes, Wasps 280 (web address 1); cf. [Plato], Eryxias 405B; Apostolius 10.68, etc.Matched in noteshighshort
λ434Ληκώμεθα[whenever] we are shaggedAristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 493-4 (where the syntax requires this subjunctive: web address 1), with the gloss of the scholia there. For the phraseology cf. Pherecrates fr.177 Kock (253 K.-A.), at Photius lambda254 Theodoridis. Both the …Matched in noteshighshort
λ605ΛιστραίνωI dig aroundThe headword verb is attested only here; 'dig around' is LSJ's translation for it. cf. generally lambda 606.Matched in noteshighshort
λ441Λῆμαwill… not identified by Adler: Callimachus, Hecale fr. 345 Pfeiffer. [3] Aristophanes, Clouds 457-8, with scholion. [4] Aristophanes, Knights 757, with scholion; cf. theta 419. [5] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 458-60. [6] Aristophanes, Frogs 602-3, with scholion. …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… The nickname for Athenians, implying that they have rowed their arses off in the service of the Athenian navy and are reduced to being like a half-knucklebone, would appear to be sailors' slang for …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ467Ληρεῖςyou are babblingcf. alpha 3459, lambda 468. [1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 517, where the phrase lh=ron lhrei=s occurs; see at n.4 below. [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 1273. [3] As a variant reading of …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ445Ληματιᾷςyou are high-spirited[1] cf. lambda 441. [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 494 (web address 1); cf. lambda 446. The accepted reading uses the noun: "for you are a high-spirited man, and noble". The verb is a variant reading …Matched in noteshighshort
λ824ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… also mentioned by Plutarch, Moralia [Spartan Sayings] 239D. [3] i.e. Artemis Orthia. [4] cf. phi 366. [5] i.e. Thermopylai. For Aristodemos see Herodotus 7.229-231; and omicron 752. [6] cf. eta 616. [7] In fact …Matched in noteshighlong
λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… (see web address 1 below); T.A. Sinclair, Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey, vol. 3, London: Pindar Press, 1987, 357 ff.; Ronald Syme, Anatolica: Studies in Strabo. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, 58-65. [5] …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ835Λῦμα τῷ γήρᾳ στρέφῃyou are wallowing in filth for your old age… at Colonus 805 (where the accepted text reads tre/fh| "you are nourishing": web address 1), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort
λ297Λεπτολογίαsubtle argument… 22 Kock, now 21 K.-A.; also in other lexica. [3] Aristophanes, Clouds 320 (web address 1), with scholion; quoted again at sigma 1038. [4] Aristophanes, Clouds 359, with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort
λ468Ληρεῖς ἔχωνyou are keeping babbling[1] The headword phrase occurs three times in Aristophanes: Birds 341, Lysistrata 945, and Frogs 512. (The scholia to the last of these supply the present entry.) Literally, "you are having babbling", with the …Matched in noteshighshort
λ389Λειποστράτιονarmy-abandoning, lipostration… most likely conclusion to be drawn from a scholion to Aristophanes, Knights 226, which reports that on some occasion Kleon (kappa 1731) accused the cavalry of lipostration. (For discussion of the scholion see Spence …Matched in noteshighshort
λ265ΛέωνLeon… Stasis, a rhetorical term for the basis on which one argues a case. Consult the index to G. Kennedy, The art of persuasion in Greece, Princeton UP, 1963. The treatise On Issues is more …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ566Λίνον λίνῳ συνάπτειςyou are joining linen with linen… has a negative and is presumably therefore a rhetorical question: 'are you not...?' That version is reckoned to be the authentic one, though the paroemiographers preferred this one. For 'linen' (or flax) cf. generally …Matched in noteshighshort
λ124Λάρκοςcharcoal-scuttle[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 333, here quoted: see next note. [The corresponding entry in Harpokration s.v. arises in the first instance from Lysias fr. 139 Sauppe, now 192 Carey OCT, but …Matched in noteshighshort
λ775Λυγκέως ὀξυωπέστερον βλέπεινto see more sharp-sightedly than Lynkeus… proverbial phrase which provides the present headword is employed in Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 210, the scholia to which are drawn upon here; cf. also Aristophanes fr.260. [1] The sons of Aphareus (cousins of Kastor …Matched in noteshighshort
λ718Λόχοςcompany, troop… the headword lo/xos (again lambda 719) see LSJ s.v. [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 451-454 (web address 1)-- here ludicrously misquoted: for 'men', read women. [3] Abridged from the scholia thereto.Matched in noteshighshort
λ165ΛαχάρηςLachares… [4] PLRE II Asterius (6). [5] Perhaps 'a history ...; Art of Rhetoric according to Cornutus'. Graeven (1891) argued that the rhetorical treatise known as the Anonymus Seguerianus is an epitome of a work …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ77Λαλιάdiscourse… 80. [1] An abridgement of Diogenes Laertius 4.33, writing of Arcesilaus or Arcesilas (316/315 - 242/241 BCE) who headed the Academy from 268. See also alpha 2825, alpha 3950, alphaiota 286, delta 932, and …Matched in noteshighshort
λ70ΛακρατίδηςLakratides, Lacratides; Lakrateides… of Philochorus (FGrH 328 F202) preserved in the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 220. Develin (below) 48 dates Lakrateides -- the most authentic version of his name -- to the period 521/20-512/11. Broadly similar material, …Matched in noteshighshort
λ792Λύθροςgore… the headword occurs. [2] Greek Anthology 6.163.7-8 (Meleager [Author, Myth]), Ares objects to the presence of unused armaments intended to adorn his shrine; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (249); vol. II (670-671); and …Matched in noteshighshort
λ357Λείβεται τοῖς δακρύοιςis soaked with tears… 358) For 'wet through' cf. delta 512, epsilon 765. [2] Aristophanes, Knights 327 (web address 1), followed by comment from the scholia there. [3] Son of Hippodamos: this is Archeptolemos of the Attic deme …Matched in noteshighshort
λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; languageFrom Diogenes Laertius 7.56-59, with addenda. [1] This definition is Aristotelian (On Interpretation 16b26). [2] cf. beta 335. [3] These lines reproduce Diog.Laert. 7.57 in a slightly different way and their content is Stoic. …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ98Λαμπροφόροιlamp-bearersFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1003; see already at alpha 3344. [1] Aristophanes' words themselves are not actually quoted (and the present headword is not amongst them anyway).Matched in noteshighshort
λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wickedAristophanes, Knights 1274-79 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. already epsiloniota 146 and the cross-references there.Matched in noteshighmedium
λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, Leonidas… the death of an anonymous (but heroic) soldier in Heraclius' army; cf. de Boor (80) and Whitby (50). The four names there, called up from the past, make only a loose chronological and contextual …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ302Λέρνη θεατῶνLerna of spectators, Lerne of spectators… and, in parts, marshy place near the sea south of Argos [Myth, Place] (see web address 1: Pausanias 2.36.6-37.6). Thus another interpretation of the phrase might be 'quagmire of spectators', or 'cesspool of spectators' …Matched in noteshighshort

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