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[[loose]], [[slack]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[χαλαρός]].

[[unenergetic]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἀπρόθυμος]].

[[lax morally]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀνειμένος]] ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 1. 6). [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[τρυφερός]].

[[be lax morally]], v.: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρυφᾶν]].

[[careless]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ῥᾴθυμος]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἀμελής]]; see [[careless]].
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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>lax</b>: cf. Gr. [[λέχρις]]; Lat.: [[licinus]], [[luxus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[fraud]], [[deception]]: lacit decipiendo inducit. Lax [[etenim]] [[fraus]] est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 116.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>lax</b>, ăcis, f., fraude : P. Fest. 116.
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