II. as Appellat., the song or lay of Linos, whether composed by him or upon him; λίνον δ᾽ ὑπὸ καλὸν ἄειδε λεπταλέῃ φωνῇ sang the lay of Linos in accompaniment, Il.18.570, cf. Pi.Fr.139.5, Hdt.2.79, E.HF348 (lyr.), Ar.Byz. ap. Ath.14.619c, and v. οἰτόλινος. (In Il. l. c. Zenod. read λίνος and interpreted it of the string of the instrument, which was orig. made of flax acc. to Sch.)
Λίνος [ι^], ὁ, Linos, a mythical minstrel, Hes.Fr.192, Theoc.24.105, Apollod.1.3.2.
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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