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λίμν-η , ἡ,
A.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., SIG799 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; “ἐπ᾽ 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” 11.
2. a quarter or suburb of Sparta, Str.8.5.1.
3. a place in Messenia, Id.8.4.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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