The corpus record

λάινος

lainos

of stone, marble, of stone

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Where it lives

Trojan Women 4 · 5.65/10k
Heracles 4 · 5.11/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Odyssey 6 · 0.69/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k

What it meant — LSJ

of stone, marble, of stone

of stone or marble, οὐδός Il. 9.404, Od. 8.80; τεῖχος Il. 12.178; λάϊνον ἕσσο χιτῶνα thou hadst put on a coat of stone, i.e. hadst been stoned to death, 3.57; of sculpture, Simon. 110; λ. τάφος S. OC 1596; μνῆμα λ. E. El. 328; ἄπελθε λαΐνων σταθμῶν Trag.Adesp. 44.

2 stony-hearted

metaph., stony-hearted, λάϊνε παῖ Theoc. 23.20. [ᾰ only Epigr.Gr. 314 (Smyrna, iii A. D.).]

In the wild

λάινα · laina Euripides, Bacchae 591
λάινον · lainon Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 176)
λάινοί · lainoi Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 742)
λάινον · lainon Euripides, Helen *menele/ws (DIORISIS sentence 654)
λαΐνοις · lainois Euripides, Heracles 1035–1038
λαΐνῳ · lainōi Euripides, Heracles 1094–1097

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Where it came from

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