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- λ707Λοχαῖοι δίφροιbirthing chairs, birthing stools… headword phrase) in Artemidorus 5.73 -- but it appears there without "in recent times" (o)ye/). The medical writer Soranus of Ephesus describes such chairs or stools without suggesting that they were novel in his …
- λ507Λιγὺςclear, shrill… various scholia (see the references at Photius lambda302 Theodoridis), though without this double headword. cf. lambda 504.
- λ654Λογογράφοςlogographer, logographos, speech-writer… delta 333, pi 1955, pi 3125. [2] More usually used without a direct object.
- λ770Λυγαίωςgloomilycf. lambda 793. [1] The same entry also occurs (without the additional note on lu/gh) at Synagoge lambda154 and Photius lambda428 Theodoridis. See also scholia to Apollonius Rhodius and to Theocritus (neither of whom, …
- λ381Λειπομαρτυρίου δίκηsuit against a recalcitrant witness… is, the suit fell procedurally into the category of those without fixed penalty (alpha 4364).
- λ176Λαίεταιis dissolved (?)… form or the provenance or the meaning of lai/etai, and without a context, neither do we.
- λ59Λακκόπρωκτοςpit-arse, tank-arse… 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 that the initial insult is by …
- λ546ΛιμηράLimera… (epsilon 2278, epsilon 2279). Often the "Limera" suffix is used without explanation (e.g. Thucydides 4.58.2, 6.105.2; Pausanias 3.21.7, 3.23.6 & 10), but see Strabo 8.6.1 (web address 1): "Apollodorus observes that this city, because …
- λ726Λώϊονbonnier… explain the change in dialect). Some of the same information (without the dialect variation) can be found in Etymologicum Genuinum lambda160 and Etymologicum Gudianum 376.10; cf. also lambda 728. [2] Greek Anthology 7.713.7-8 (generally …
- λ603Λίσπηsmooth, polished… and Days 156) and Moeris took it as Attic for 'without buttocks' (p.245P.). [4] See alpha 4250, astragalos. [5] This word is not attested elsewhere in Greek, and the reading in the scholia strufnou\s …
- λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… the more intelligible kat' au)tw=n, "against them" (i.e. the Melians). Without the preceding context the referent of au)tw=n was unclear; pa/ntwn will be a mistaken attempt at correction. [3] The actual status of Melos …
- λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneselfThis entry, without the quotations from Homer and Plato, also appears in Photius (lambda430 Theodoridis); and cf. scholia to Plato, Republic 405C, where the headword participle (from the verb lugi/zw) occurs; see further below, …
- λ238Λελάχωσιthey would put [someone] in possession of… if he is killed by Achilles, his body may be returned so that the Trojans may give him the cremation that is his due. For the verb lagxa/nw, see also lambda 167, lambda 171; …