λίμν-η, ἡ,
pool of standing water left by the sea or a river, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence,
marshy lake, mere, distinguished from ἕλος, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; Γυγαίη[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. τροχοειδής, at Delos, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
b) also,
artificial pool or
basin, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) in [
Refs 8th c.BC+] and other Poets,
the sea, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: so in Trag. in Lyric poetry, λίμνᾳ πορφυροειδεῖ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Μηλίδα πὰρ λ. by the Malian
bay, [
Refs]
II) Λίμναι, αἱ, (used without the article),
a quarter of Athens (once probably
marshy), near the Acropolis, in which stood the Lenaeum, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2)
a quarter or
suburb of Sparta, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.3)
a place in Messenia, [
Refs]