A. beg, pray, either abs. or c. acc. pers., λισσομένη προσέειπε Δία Il. 1.502; εὐχωλῇσι λιτῇσί τε ἔθνεα νεκρῶν ἐλλισάμην Od. 11.35, etc.; the thing by which one prays is found with ὑπέρ, λ. ὑπὲρ τοκέων, ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς καὶ γούνων, Il. 15.660, 22.338; λ. τινὰ ὑπὲρ πατρὸς καὶ μητέρος 24.467: or simply in gen., λ. Ζηνὸς ἠδὲ Θέμιστος Od. 2.68; λ. τινὰ γούνων Il. 9.451, Od. 22.337 (for which in Il. 6.45 we have λαβὼν ἐλλίσσετο γούνων, cf. Od. 6.142; τῆ ἑτέρῃ μὲν ἑλὼν ἐλλίσσετο γούνων Il. 21.71; ἥπτετο χείρεσι γούνων ἱέμενος λίσσεσθʼ 20.469); also in Trag., πρὸ . . τέκνων σε λ. E. Tr. 1045 (v. infr.): an inf. is freq. added, as οὐδέ σʼ ἔγωγε λίσσομαι εἵνεκʼ ἐμεῖο μένειν I do not pray thee to remain, Il. 1.174, cf. 283, B. 10.69, Pi. P. 4.207; πρός νυν θεῶν σε λ. ἐμοὶ πιθέσθαι S. El. 428; καὶ μὴ προδοῦναι λ. prays her not to abandon him, E. Alc. 202: more rarely with an acc. and inf. added, λίσσονται Δία . . Ἄτην ἅμʼ ἕπεσθαι they pray Zeus that Ate may follow, Il. 9.511, cf. Od. 8.30: sts. folld. by ὅπως, λίσσεσθαί μιν, ὅπως νημερτέα εἴπῃ entreat him to say the truth, 3.19; or by ἵνα, ib.327: in Trag. parenth., μὴ πρόλειπε, λ., πάτερ A. Supp. 748; μή, λίσσομαί σʼ, αὔδα τάδε S. Aj. 368, cf. OT 650 (lyr.), Ar. Pax 382.

2. c. acc. rei, beg or pray for, οἷ αὐτῷ θάνατον καὶ κῆρα λιτέσθαι Il. 16.47: c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, ταῦτα μὲν οὐχ ὑμέας ἔτι λίσσομαι this I beg of you no more, Od. 2.210, cf. 4.347.

3. in Hom. freq. c. dat. modi, ἐπέεσσι Il. 21.98, al.; εὐχῇσι Od. 10.526; εὐχωλῆσι λιτῆσί τε ἐλλισάμην 11.35.—Rare in Prose, as Hdt. 1.24, LXXJb. 17.2, Luc. Syr.D. 18; in Pl. R. 366a there is a ref. to Il. 9.501. [The λ- freq. makes position in Ep., Il. 1.394, al.; written λλ after the augm., v. supr.]

A. graze, Eust. 1926.37, as giving the Root of λίγδην, ἐπιλίγδην. λιζῶνες· ἐλάττονες, Hsch. (Cf. ὀλείζων, ὀλίγος). λίημος· ψάμαθος, Id. (fort. ἄμμος). λίην, Ion. and Ep. for λίαν. λίηνος· λιθοπυργία, Id. λίηφος·, δεινός, Id. λῖθʼ, v. λῖτα.