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αἴλι^νος , ὁ,
A.cry of anguish, dirge, “αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ” A.Ag.121 (lyr.), cf. S.Aj.627 (lyr.), E.Or.1395; of an epitaph, AP6.348 (Diod.); said to be from αἶ Αίνον ah me for Linos! cf. Paus.9.29.8.
2. Adj., αἴλινος, ον, mournful, plaintive, “αἰλίνοις κακοῖς” E.Hel.171; “βρέφος αἴ.” unhappy, IG14.1502: neut. pl. αἴλινα as Adv., Call.Ap.20, Mosch.3.1: hence αἰλινέω sing a dirge, cj. in Dosiad.Ara15.
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, 121
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