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αἶνος , ὁ, (αἰν<*>έω) poet. and Ion. word,
A.tale, story, Il.23.652, Od.14.508, A.Supp.534 (lyr.); αἰνεῖν αἶνον to tell a tale, Id.Ag.1483 (lyr.), S.Ph.1380: esp. story with moral, fable, Hes. Op.202, Archil.86,89; “ἄκουε δὴ τὸν αἶνον” Call.Iamb.1.211: generally, saying, proverb, “παλαιὸς αἶ.” E.Fr.508, cf. Theoc.14.43; riddle, Carm.Pop.34.
II. = Att. ἔπαινος, praise, Il.23.795, Od.21.110, Pi.N.1.6; “ἐπιτύμβιος αἶ.” A.Ag.1547, cf. 780, S.OC707 (all lyr.); “ἄξιος αἴνου μεγάλου” Hdt.7.107 (v.l. ἐπαίνου), cf. LXXPs.8.2, al., Ev.Luc.18.43.
III. decree, resolution, “τῶν Ἀχαιῶν” IG4.926 (Epid.); κατ᾽ αἶνον, opp. κατὰ ψήφισμα, SIG672.15 (Delph.), cf. EM36.16.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1483
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 780
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 534
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.107
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 202
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.652
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.795
    • Homer, Odyssey, 21.110
    • Homer, Odyssey, 14.508
    • New Testament, Luke, 18.43
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 707
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1380
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1547
    • Old Testament, Psalm, 8.2
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