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ληναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ληναῖος ληναῖη ληναῖον

Structure: ληναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lhno/s

Sense

  1. belonging to the wine-press
  2. god of the wine-press
  3. the Lenaea
  4. the Lenaeum

Examples

  • αὐτοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν οὑπὶ Ληναίῳ τ’ ἀγών, κοὔπω ξένοι πάρεισιν· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:5)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐπὶ ἄρχοντοσ Εὐφήμου στεφανοῦται Ληναίοισ, Πλάτων δὲ γεννᾶται ἐπὶ Ἀπολλοδώρου τοῦ μετ’ Εὐθύδημον ἄρξαντοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 573)
  • "εἰ γὰρ εἰε͂ν ἄνθρωποι ἄγριοι οἱούσ πέρυσι Φερεκράτησ ὁ ποιητὴσ ἐδίδαξεν ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 59 2:1)
  • Μελήτου τὸν ἀπὸ Ληναίου νεκρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 75 3:4)
  • ἔπειτα Διονυσίων τῶν ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to the wine-press

Related

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

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