Limnaeus

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

## Greek Mythology[edit]

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[edit]

* Limnaea (Λιμναία), an ancient town of Thessaly.[9]
* Limnaea (Acarnania), a city in ancient Acarnania.[10]

## Names[edit]

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[edit]

* Limnaeus is also a surname of species in zoology (i.e. Austrofundulus limnaeus, a fish, Gammarus limnaeus, an amphipod ).

## References[edit]

1. ^ LSJ: limnaios Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ (Eustath. ad Horn. p. 871 ; Callim. Fragm. 280, Bentl.; Time. ii. 15 ; Aristoph. Ran. 216 ; Athen. x. p. 437, xi. p. 465)
3. ^ (Paus. ii. 7. § 6, iii. 23. § 10)
4. ^ (Paus. iii. 2. § 6, 7. § 4, iv. 4. § 2, 31. § 3, vii. 20. § 7, &c.; Strab. viii, p. 361 ; Tac. Ann. iv. 43)
5. ^ (Paus. iv. 31. § 3), at Tegea (viii. 53. § 11, comp. iii. 14. § 2)
6. ^ (vii. 20. § 7)
7. ^ (Theocrit. v. 17)
8. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 47
9. ^ Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Limnaea
10. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Limnaea
11. ^ SEG 38.619
12. ^ Polybius 5.90.1

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