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Lenaeus

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Lenaeus (Ancient Greek: Ληναιος, Lēnaios) is a masculine given name related to wine presses and the Maenads, the female attendants of Dionysus and Bacchus in Greco-Roman mythology.

It may refer to:

  • Johannes Canuti Lenaeus (1573–1669), a Swedish academic and archbishop
  • Lenaeus (fl. 2nd cent. BC), a Greek slave of the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra the Syrian who served as regent of Egypt
  • Pompeius Lenaeus (fl. 1st cent. BC), a Greek slave of the Roman general Pompey who was freed and began a school in Rome

It is also used in various scientific names:

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