A.a festival in which the ἄνοδος of Demeter was celebrated by women by night, with mutual abuse and low language, Ar. Th.834, Eub.148, IG22.674.7:—hence the Verb στηνιῶσαι to be scurrilous, Hsch.
Στήνια , τά,
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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