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at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes.
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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,
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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Limnaea
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includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).
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records that Limnaeus had been living in this way for thirty-eight years.
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Limnaeus, a general of Alexander the Great, in the battle of Malli (see
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Limnaios son of Harpalos, a land-owner; he was given estates in
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Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Limnaea
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Limnaeus, an ambassador of Philip V of Macedon (see
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Dionysus
Artemis
Naiad
Ganges
Athis
Thessaly
Limnaea (Acarnania)
Acarnania
Habreas
Chalcidice
Lysimachus
226 BC earthquake
Cycliadas
Saint Limnaeus
Theodoret
Johannes Limnaeus
Georg Limnaeus
Jena
Toula Limnaios
zoology
amphipod
LSJ
limnaios
Archived
Wayback Machine
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 47
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Limnaea
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Limnaea
Polybius
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