λίμνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">pool of standing water</b> left by the sea or a river, <span class="bibl">Il.21.317</span>: hence, <b class="b2">marshy lake, mere</b>, distd. from <b class="b3">ἕλος</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Criti.</span>114e</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lg.</span>824c</span>; Βοιβηΐς λ. <span class="bibl">Il.2.711</span>; <b class="b3">Γυγαίη</b> ib.<span class="bibl">865</span>; Κηφισίς <span class="bibl">5.709</span>; λ. Γοργῶπις <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>302</span>; Μαιῶτις <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>419</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">729</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pers.</span> 871</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.86</span>; ἡ Βόλβη λ. <span class="bibl">Th.4.103</span>; <b class="b3">λ. τροχοειδής</b>, at Delos, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.170</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>9</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> also, <b class="b2">artificial pool</b> or <b class="b2">basin</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.185</span>, <span class="bibl">191</span>, al., <span class="title">SIG</span>799 ii 3 (Cyzic., i A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in Hom. and other Poets, <b class="b2">the sea</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.24.79</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.3.1</span>; βένθεσι λίμνης <span class="bibl">Il.13.21</span>, <span class="bibl">32</span>: so in Trag. in lyr., λίμνᾳ πορφυροειδεῖ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>529</span>; ἐπ' οἶδμα λίμνας <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Fr.</span>476</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>446</span>; Πόσειδον, ὃς γλαυκᾶς μέδεις… λίμνας <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>371</span>; <b class="b3">Μηλίδα πὰρ λ</b>. by the Malian <b class="b2">bay</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>636</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">Λίμναι, αἱ</b>, (used without the article), <b class="b2">a quarter of Athens</b> (once prob. <b class="b2">marshy</b>), near the Acropolis, in which stood the Lenaeum, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>216</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.15</span>, <span class="bibl">Is.8.35</span>, etc., cf. λιμναῖος <span class="bibl">11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">a quarter</b> or <b class="b2">suburb of Sparta</b>, <span class="bibl">Str.8.5.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">a place in Messenia</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.8.4.9</span>.</span>