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λίμνη

λίμνη, a pool of standing water; a lake

λίμν-η, ἡ,
  • pool of standing water left by the sea or a river, Il. 21.317: hence, marshy lake, mere, distd. from ἕλος, Pl. Criti. 114e, Lg. 824c; Βοιβηΐς λ. Il. 2.711; Γυγαίη ib. 865; Κηφισίς 5.709; λ. Γοργῶπις A. Ag. 302; Μαιῶτις Id. Pr. 419 (lyr.), cf. 729, Pers. 871 (lyr.), Hdt. 4.86; ἡ Βόλβη λ. Th. 4.103; λ. τροχοειδής, at Delos, Hdt. 2.170, cf. A. Eu. 9.
        • b also, artificial pool or basin, Hdt. 1.185, 191, al., SIG 799 ii 3 (Cyzic., i A.D.).
      • 2 in Hom. and other Poets, the sea, Il. 24.79, Od. 3.1; βένθεσι λίμνης Il. 13.21, 32: so in Trag. in lyr., λίμνᾳ πορφυροειδεῖ A. Supp. 529; ἐπʼ οἶδμα λίμνας S. Fr. 476, E. Hec. 446; Πόσειδον, ὃς γλαυκᾶς μέδεις . . λίμνας S. Fr. 371; Μηλίδα πὰρ λ. by the Malian bay, Id. Tr. 636.
    • II Λίμναι, αἱ, (used without the article), a quarter of Athens (once prob. marshy), near the Acropolis, in which stood the Lenaeum, Ar. Ra. 216, Th. 2.15, Is. 8.35, etc., cf. λιμναῖος II.
      • 2 a quarter or suburb of Sparta, Str. 8.5.1.
      • 3 a place in Messenia, Id. 8.4.9.

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