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|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[pool of standing water]] left by the [[sea]] or a [[river]], Il.21.317: hence, [[marshy]] [[lake]], [[mere]], distinguished from [[ἕλος]], Pl. ''Criti.''114e, ''Lg.''824c; [[Βοιβηΐς]] λίμνη Il.2.711; [[Γυγαίη]] ib.865; Κηφισίς 5.709; λίμνη [[Γοργῶπις]] A.''Ag.''302; Μαιῶτις Id.''Pr.''419 (lyr.), cf. 729, ''Pers.'' 871 (lyr.), [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.86; ἡ Βόλβη λίμνη Th.4.103; <b class="b3">λίμνη τροχοειδής</b>, at [[Delos]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.170, cf. A.''Eu.''9.<br><span class="bld">b</span> also, [[artificial]] [[pool]] or [[basin]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.185, 191, al., ''SIG''799 ii 3 (Cyzic., i A.D.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> 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; <b class="b3">Μηλίδα πὰρ λ.</b> by the [[Malian]] [[bay]], Id.''Tr.''636.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[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]] ''ΙΙ''.<br><span class="bld">2</span> a [[quarter]] or [[suburb]] of [[Sparta]], Str.8.5.1.<br><span class="bld">3</span> a place in [[Messenia]], Id.8.4.9.