λίμνη

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A pool of standing water left by the sea or a river, Il.21.317: hence, marshy lake, mere, distd. from ἕλος, Pl. Criti.114e, Lg.824c; Βοιβηΐς λ. Il.2.711; Γυγαίη ib.865; Κηφισίς 5.709; λ. Γοργῶπις A.Ag.302; Μαιῶτις Id.Pr.419 (lyr.), cf. 729, Pers. 871 (lyr.), Hdt.4.86; ἡ Βόλβη λ. Th.4.103; λ. τροχοειδής, at Delos, Hdt.2.170, cf. A.Eu.9.    b also, artificial pool or basin, Hdt.1.185, 191, al., SIG799 ii 3 (Cyzic., i A.D.).    2 in Hom. and other Poets, the sea, Il.24.79, Od.3.1; βένθεσι λίμνης Il.13.21, 32: so in Trag. in lyr., λίμνᾳ πορφυροειδεῖ A.Supp.529; ἐπ' οἶδμα λίμνας S. Fr.476, E.Hec.446; Πόσειδον, ὃς γλαυκᾶς μέδεις . . λίμνας S.Fr.371; Μηλίδα πὰρ λ. by the Malian bay, Id.Tr.636.    II Λίμναι, αἱ, (used without the article), a quarter of Athens (once prob. marshy), near the Acropolis, in which stood the Lenaeum, Ar.Ra.216, Th.2.15, Is.8.35, etc., cf. λιμναῖος 11.    2 a quarter or suburb of Sparta, Str.8.5.1.    3 a place in Messenia, Id.8.4.9.