The corpus record

λέαινα

leaina · ἡ

lioness, women dedicated to Mithras

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Where it lives

Lysistrata 2 · 2.52/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

λέαινα · leaina — LSJ

lioness

lioness, Hdt. 3.108: metaph., δίπους λ., of Clytaemnestra, A. Ag. 1258; λεαίνας μαζὸν ἐθήλαζεν, as a symbol of ferocity, Theoc. 3.15, cf. 23.19.

λ. ἐπὶ τυροκνήστιδος, = σχῆμά τι συνουσίας, Ar. Lys. 231.

III women dedicated to Mithras

pl., women dedicated to Mithras, Porph. Abst. 4.16 (cf. λέων VI); title of Hecate, ibid.

name of several salves, Orib. Fr. 75, Aët. 7.86, Paul.Aeg. 7.17.

In the wild

λέαινα · leaina Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1258–1259
λέαινʼ · leainʼ Aristophanes, Lysistrata 231 (DIORISIS sentence 194)
λέαινʼ · leainʼ Aristophanes, Lysistrata 232 (DIORISIS sentence 195)
λεαίνας · leainas Euripides, Bacchae 988–991
λέαινα · leaina Euripides, Electra 2 (DIORISIS sentence 258)
λεαίνης · leainēs Euripides, Helen *(ele/nh.375 (DIORISIS sentence 216)

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Where it came from

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