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Lenaeus

(*Lhnai=os), a surname of Dionysus, derived from ληνός, the wine-press or the vintage. (Hesych. sub voce Verg. G. 2.4. 529; Dict. of Ant. s. v. Lenaea.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.