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λι^μήν , ένσς, ὁ,
A.harbour, Il.1.432 (here distd. fr. ὅρμος, mooringplace), al., Pl.Ti.25a, etc.; Κανθάρου λ. a dockyard in the Piraeus, with a pun on κάνθαρος just above, Ar.Pax145 (ubi v. Sch.): freq. in pl., “λιμένες νηῶν ὀχοί” Od.5.404; “λιμένες δ᾽ ἔνι ναύλοχοι αὐτῇ” 4.846; “λιμένες τε πάνορμοι” 13.195, cf. S.Ph.936, etc.: c. gen. objecti, λιμένες θαλάσσης havens of refuge from the sea, Od.5.418, cf. Hes.Sc. 207.
II. metaph., haven, retreat, refuge, Thgn.460; ἑταιρείας λ. a haven of friendship, S.Aj.683; “οὗτος . . λ. πέφανται τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων” E.Med.769: c. gen. objecti, λ. κακῶν from ills, A.Supp.471; “ὦ ναυτίλοισι χείματος λ. φανείς” E.Andr.891; “ὕπνον . . τῶν καμάτων λ.” Critias 6.20 D.; “λ. τῆς πλάνης ἥδε ἡ γῆ μόνη λείπεται” D.H.1.58.
2. gathering-place, receptacle, “πλούτου λ.” A.Pers.250; “μέγας” E.Or.1077; “παντὸς οἰωνοῦ λ.” S.Ant.1000; Ἅιδου λ. harbour of death, ib.1284 (lyr.); “ξείνων αἰδοῖοι λιμένες” Emp.112.3; βοῆς τῆς σῆς ποῖος οὐκ ἔσται λ.; what place shall not harbour (i.e. receive) thy cry? S.OT420.
III. = ἀγορά in Thessaly and Paphos, IG9(2).517.42 (Larissa), Gal.Thras.32, D.Chr.11.23 (interpol.).
IV. the source of birth, womb, Emp.98.3, S.OT1208 (lyr.).
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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