Linus: Meaning and Definition of

Li•nus

1. a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation.
2. Also calledLi&prim;nus song&sec;.a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
2. a male given name.

Li•nus

1. died a.d. 76?, pope 67?–76?.