Arainus
Ἀράϊνος
Arainus (Ἀράϊνος), a small place in Laconia, on the western side of the Laconian gulf, containing the monument of Las, who founded a town called Las after him. Boblaye places Arainus at Aghéranos (Paus. 3.24.10; Boblaye Recherches, &c. p. 88; comp. Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 173.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.