Limnaeus
Limnaeus, Limnaios, Limnaea, Limnaee, Limnetes, or Limnagenes,[1] meaning in Greek "inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh".
Greek Mythology
It is an ancient Greek surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens,[2] and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus,[3] on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia,[4] near Calamae,[5] Patrae;[6] it is also used as a surname of nymphs[7] that dwell in lakes or marshes.
Limnaee was the Naiad-nymph of a lake in India and daughter of the river Ganges. She had a son named Athis.[8]
Cities/Towns
- Limnaea (Λιμναία), an ancient town of Thessaly.[9]
- Limnaea (Acarnania), a city in ancient Acarnania.[10]
Names
Limnaeus or Limnaios is also used as a name:
- Limnaeus, a general of Alexander the Great, in the battle of Malli (see Habreas)
- Limnaios son of Harpalos, a land-owner; he was given estates in Chalcidice by king Lysimachus[11]
- Limnaios and Lysanias helped Rhodes after 226 BC earthquake[12]
- Limnaeus, an ambassador of Philip V of Macedon (see Cycliadas)
- Saint Limnaeus, disciple of Saint Thalassius, an hermit in Syria (5th century). Theodoret records that Limnaeus had been living in this way for thirty-eight years.
- Johannes Limnaeus (Johann Wirn) (1592–1663) German professor who wrote a work entitled "Jus publicum Imperii Romano-Germanici"
- Georg Limnaeus (1554–1611) German professor of mathematics in Jena
- Toula Limnaios, a Greek choreographer
Zoology
- Limnaeus is also a surname of species in zoology (i.e. Austrofundulus limnaeus, a fish, Gammarus limnaeus, an amphipod ).
References
- ^ LSJ: limnaios Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (Eustath. ad Horn. p. 871; Callim. Fragm. 280, Bentl.; Time. ii. 15; Aristoph. Ran. 216; Athen. x. p. 437, xi. p. 465)
- ^ (Paus. ii. 7. § 6, iii. 23. § 10)
- ^ (Paus. iii. 2. § 6, 7. § 4, iv. 4. § 2, 31. § 3, vii. 20. § 7, &c.; Strab. viii, p. 361; Tac. Ann. iv. 43)
- ^ (Paus. iv. 31. § 3), at Tegea (viii. 53. § 11, comp. iii. 14. § 2)
- ^ (vii. 20. § 7)
- ^ (Theocrit. v. 17)
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 47
- ^ Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Limnaea
- ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Limnaea
- ^ SEG 38.619
- ^ Polybius 5.90.1
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