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- λ481Λιασθείςhaving fallen, having sunk[Meaning someone] having turned aside.
- λ749Λοιβήlibation[Meaning a] drink-offering, sacrifice.
- λ336Λευκοὺς λίθους ἔχοντες αὐχοῦσι μέγαhaving white stones they boast greatly[no gloss]
- λ780Λύγοςwithy… were accustomed amongst themselves to make a journey in wintertime. Having bound discs [made] out of withies on their feet, they themselves proceeded safely across the snow, compressed [sc. as it was] by the …
- λ636Λογάδηνpicked[Meaning] select. Thucydides [writes]: "not having stone-working tools of iron but carrying stones picked, they fitted each one at random." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'picked stones'. "Created from picked stones." That is, …
- λ591Λιποτάκτηςdeserter, post-deserter… [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] leipotakth/sas, [meaning someone] having abandoned, having fled.
- λ243Λέλογχενhas obtained by lot… he/she/it] hit upon, benefited from. Also [sc. attested is] lelogxw/s ["having obtained by lot"], [meaning] having been allocated.
- 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 …
- 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".
- λ247Λέντιονnapkin, hand-towelThe headword lention presumably reflects Latin linteum (literally, made of linen). See e.g. John 13:4-5.
- λ84ΛαμίαLamia… their freedom, and defeated Antipater. Menander in Man-Woman [writes]: "for having filled [?] from various parts of the battle-line he destroyed all the [?] at Lamia".
- λ64Λακωνικαὶ κλεῖδεςLakonian keys, Laconian keys… was possible, for women who had had a three-obol seal-ring made, to open the door. But now this man [Euripides] has taught them to have [seals] made of worm-eaten wood hanging from their belts". …
- λ135Λασιόκωφοςhairy-mute[Meaning] one who is excessively mute; e.g. having hairy ears, resulting in deafness and sense-deprivation.
- λ529Λίθων χοαίstreams of stones, outpourings of stones[Meaning] gold and silver. For Euripides says: "having white stones they boast greatly".
- λ450Λημνίᾳ χειρίwith a Lemnian hand… were accused of killing their husbands, because they were not having sexual intercourse with them.
- λ195Λαισήϊονbuckler, targetMade of animal hide. cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.453, where the word occurs: web address 1. See also Herodotus 7.91 (on the Cilicians in Xerxes' army).
- λ220Λεβητωνάριονlebetonarion, levitonarionA monk's tunic, made out of hairs; [so called] in the native tongue of the Prousians.
- λ273Λεωπετρίαlevelrock, smoothrock[Meaning] a level/smooth stone. "It is possible that they made a landing into the Chersonnese from some levelrock, out of the sea, and reached the rear of the enemy".
- λ523Λίθος[the] stone… and putting them on oath". So Athenians seem to have made oaths at a particular stone, as Aristotle and Philochorus show.
- λ294Λεπτὴν πλέκειhe is weaving a thin one… comes the term] leptolo/gos ["quibbler"]. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "and having relaxed your subtle mind speculate about the matters little by little". That is examine [them].
- λ271Λέων λέων σοι γέγονεν ἔκμαγμα σόνa lion a lion has been born to you (as) your (very) image… situated. "Both in each and every other respect and in having a penis like yours, bent just like a cell".
- λ88Λαμπάδοςof a torch, torch's… torch-festivals, at [the] Panathenaia, Hephaistia and Prometh[e]ia. Istros says that having a torch-race was something Athenians first did when sacrificing to Hephaistos, to commemorate him who grasped the use of fire and taught it …
- λ233Λέκτραιςon couches… address 1). (The Suda's feminine le/ktrais is an error, not made in other lexica.) [2] From ancient comment on Homer, Odyssey 8.292, where le/ktronde occurs.
- λ264ΛεώκριτοςLeokritos, Leocritus… and for being an alien and a toady. Mention was made of the two of them as being like-minded. Or because Kinesias was slender, and [K]leokritos a scoundrel. So he is saying that if …
- λ753Λοιδορεῖσθαι τοὺς πονηροὺςto revile the wicked… many insults, had himself been obvious, I would not have made mention of a [man who is a] friend; but as it is, everybody knows Arignotos, whoever knows either the white or the orthios …
- λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… men that after the engagement they laughed at themselves for having employed arms against such slaves. And Livy said that he was astonished by this battle, for he says that the Roman had never …
- λ387Λειποταξίουdesertion… Histories 2.18.26; on the general Heraclius (cf. phi 349), after having been left in command of the eastern Roman army in late 587; cf. de Boor (109), Whitby (71), and pi 1689. The Suda …
- λ784ΛυδιάζωνLydianizing, playing the Lydian… as a reflection of what Aristophanes' chorus says about Magnes having been 'driven off the stage' when elderly. But more probably dieskeua/sqhsan, printed by Adler and also in Photius (above), is correct, since it …
- λ249ΛεοννάτοςLeonnatos, Leonnatus… (e(tai=roi) were an élite cavalry company of the Macedonian army, made up of noblemen. See Malcolm Errington in OCD (4) s.v. "hetairoi".