Lenæus

, a surname of Bacchus, from ληνος , a wine-pre . There was a festival called Lenæa , celebrated in his honour, in which the ceremonies observed at the other festivals of the god chiefly prevailed. There were, besides, poetical contentions, . Pausanias. — Virgil , Georgics , bk. 2 , li. 4 ; Æneid , bk. 4 , li. 207 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 4 , li. 14 .――A learned grammarian, ordered by Pompey to translate into Latin some of the physical manuscripts of Mithridates king of Pontus.