Limnaeus
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Limnaeus, Limnaios, Limnaea, Limnaee, Limnetes, or Limnagenes,[1] meaning in Greek "inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh".
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]
