Sense

1. silly talk, nonsense, trumpery, nonsense, a trifler, nonsense! humbug!

Examples

• ἀλλ’ ὁρ́α μὴ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμῖν τὰ κομψὰ λῆροσ ᾖ καὶ παιδιὰ ἄλλωσ καὶ διατριβαὶ ἀργοῦσι καὶ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἐθέλουσι τοῖσ νεανίσκοισ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 32:3)
• εἴσῃ γὰρ μετ’ ὀλίγον ^ εἰ λῆροσ εἶναί σοι δόξει τὰ λεχθησόμενα. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 7:2)
• λῆροσ γὰρ ἄλλωσ τὸ τοιοῦτον. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 6:3)
• εἰ μὲν καὶ ταῦτα λῆρόσ ἐστιν ἃ εἴρηκασ, εἰσόμεθα μικρὸν ὕστερον ἐγὼ δέ, ἐπείπερ ἱκανὰ φὴσ εἶναι τὰ κατηγορημένα, πειράσομαι ὡσ ἂν οἱο͂́σ τε ὦ διαλύσασθαι τὰ ἐγκλήματα. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 7:1)
• "ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀναγίγνωσκε τὰ παλαιὰ μὲν μὴ σύ γε, μηδὲ εἴ τι ὁ λῆροσ Ἰσοκράτησ ἢ ὁ χαρίτων ἄμοιροσ Δημοσθένησ ἢ ὁ ψυχρὸσ Πλάτων, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ τῶν ὀλίγον πρὸ ἡμῶν λόγουσ καὶ ἅσ φασι ταύτασ μελέτασ, ὡσ ἔχῃσ ἀπ’ ἐκείνων ἐπισιτισάμενοσ ἐν καιρῷ καταχρῆσθαι καθάπερ ἐκ ταμιείου προαιρῶν. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:28)

Similar forms

• λῆρος (29)
• λῆρον (28)
• λήρους (12)
• λῆρός (7)
• λήροις (5)
• λήρου (4)
• ληροῦσι (3)
• λῆρόν (3)
• λῆροί (1)
• λῆροσ] (1)
• ληροῖεν (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.