λαός
λαός, ὁ, Ion. ληός Hippon. 88, Hdt. 5.42 (v.l. λαόν, which is in all Mss. in 4.148), cj. in Mimn. 14.9; Att. λεώς, which is also used in Hdt. 1.22, 8.136, while the form λαός is sts. used in Trag., and once or twice even in Com. (v. infr. I.3): also in Inscrr. and Pap. (v. infr.) and in late Prose, as Foed.Byz. ap. Plb. 4.52.7 (pl.), Str. 14.4.3 (pl.), Plu. Suav. 2.1096b, etc. (both forms in pr. nn., Λεωβώτης Hdt. 7.204, Λαβώτας X. HG 1.2.18, etc.).