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|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[outrage]], [[dishonour]], [[αἶσχος]] λώβη τε 18.225; <b class="b3">λώβην λωβᾶσθαι</b> (v. [[λωβάομαι]]) <b class="b3">; τείσετε λ.</b> ye shall [[pay]] for the [[outrage]], Il.11.142; ἀπὸ πᾶσαν ἐμοὶ δόμεναι… λ. 9.387; but <b class="b3">λ. τείσασθαι</b> [[exact]] [[retribution]] for an [[outrage]], i.e. [[avenge]] it, 19.208, Od.20.169, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''181 (lyr.); [[ἐπὶ λώβᾳ]] = for [[ruin]] or [[destruction]], Id.''Ant.''792 (lyr.), cf. [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Hecuba|Hec.]]''647 (lyr.); ὡς ἐπὶ λώβᾳ Id.''HF''882 (lyr.); λώβη καὶ [[διαφθορά]] Pl.''Men.''91c, etc.; esp. [[mutilation]], [[maiming]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.154: pl., [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''1392; λώβας λωβηθείς Pl.''Grg.''473c.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of persons, a [[disgrace]], λώβην τ' ἔμεναι καὶ ὑπόψιον Il.3.42, cf. E.''El.''165 (lyr.), Herod.7.95; <b class="b3">ποιητῶν λῶβαι</b>, of the Grammarians, ''AP''11.322 (Antiphan.); <b class="b3">οὐ γὰρ Ἀρκάδεσσι λώβα</b> no [[insult]] to the [[Arcadian|Arcadians]], Alc. 38.<br><span class="bld">II</span> a form of [[leprosy]], Gal.14.757.