λίμν-η, ἡ,
pool of standing water left by the sea or a river, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.317 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, marshy lake, mere, distinguished from ἕλος, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 114e, “Lg.” 824c; Βοιβηΐς λ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.711 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Γυγαίη[[ [prev. work] 865; Κηφισίς 5.709; λ. Γοργῶπις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 302; Μαιῶτις [prev. author] “Pr.” 419 (Lyric poetry), compare 729, “Pers.” 871 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.86; ἡ Βόλβη λ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. τροχοειδής, at Delos, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.170, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b also, artificial pool or basin, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.185, 191, +others, “SIG” 799 ii 3 (Cyzic., 1st c.AD). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] and other Poets, the sea, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.79, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.1; βένθεσι λίμνης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.21, 32 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: so in Trag. in Lyric poetry, λίμνᾳ πορφυροειδεῖ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 529; ἐπ᾽ οἶδμα λίμνας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 476, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 446; Πόσειδον, ὃς γλαυκᾶς μέδεις.. λίμνας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 371 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Μηλίδα πὰρ λ. by the Malian bay, [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 636. ] Refs]
__II Λίμναι, αἱ, (used without the article), a quarter of Athens (once probably marshy), near the Acropolis, in which stood the Lenaeum, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 216, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.15, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.35, etc., compare λιμναῖος 11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]