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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Of the wine-vat; Lenaios
Meaning
ληναῖε directly addresses Dionysos at L.5 and LII.2; the heading of L also uses the title. At LIV.9 the neuter plural ληναῖα instead names the august, fulfilling Lenaian rites that Silenos escorts with the Bakchai. The same adjective can therefore characterize the god or stand substantivally for his observances.
Places to read
- Hymn L · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ληναῖα; ληναῖε
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. L.5; LII.2; LIV.9
Heading and incense rubric evidence
ΛΗΝΑΙΟΥ · L.heading. L. ΛΥΣΙΟΥ ΛΗΝΑΙΟΥ
Local sense
Lenaios, a Dionysian title in the heading