īphícrătes: Athenian general in early part of the fourth century B.C. An innovator in tactics and military equipment, noted for his prudence and foresight.
Ischómăchus: a character of the name appears in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus as lecturing his wife upon the principles of domestic management. Such a philosophically disposed person may be the associate of Socrates mentioned by Plutarch.
Ithacans: the people of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, one of the Ionian islands, south of Corfu.
Ixíon: mythical Thessalian king, who made illicit love to Hera, wife of Zeus, and was punished by being fastened to a perpetually revolving wheel in Hades.
Laelius: C. Laelius Sapiens, friend of Scipio Africanus Minor. Consul 140 B.C. Cicero’s De Amicitia is otherwise named his Laelius. Philosopher, orator, and scholar.
Laértes: aged father of Odysseus; superannuated king of Ithaca.
Lĕchaeum: the port of Old Corinth, with which it was connected by walls one and a half miles in length.
Lēlántum: a river of Euboea, flowing through the fertile Lelantine plain (between Chalcis and Eretria), which was long a bone of contention between the two cities.
Leónȋdas: the famous Spartan king, who so stubbornly held the pass of Thermopylae against the Persians with his ‘Three Hundred’, 480 B.C.
Leptis: a town in Africa near the modern Tripoli; a Phoenician settlement and afterwards a Roman colony.