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ληναῖος , α, ον, (
A.“ληνός” 1) belonging to the wine-press; esp.
1. epith. of Dionysus, as god of the wine-press, D.S.3.63.
2. Λήναια (sc. ἱερά), τά, the Lenaea, an Athenian (also Rhodian, IG12(1).125) festival held in the month Ληναιών (i.e. Gamelion) in honour of Dionysus, at which there were dramatic contests, esp. of the Com. Poets, Ar.Ach.1155 (lyr.).
3. Λήναιον , τό, the Lenaeum, the place at Athens where the Lenaea were held, οὑπὶ Ληναίῳ ἀγών the Lenaean dramatic contest, opp. τὰ κατ᾽ ἄστυ, ib.504, cf. Pl.Prt.327d, Lex ap. D.21.10; “Διονύσια τὰ ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ” SIG1029.9 (iv B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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