Limnaea

• a town of Thessaly, now Kortikhi, Liv. 36, 13 fin.

Limnaea, Limne'tes, Limne'genes (Λιμναία (ος), Λιμνήτης (ις), Λιμνηγενής), i. e. inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh, is a 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 (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 871; Callim. Fragm. 280, Bentl.; Thuc. 2.15; Aristoph. Frogs 216; Athen. 10.437, xi. p. 465), and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus (Paus. 2.7.6, 3.23.10), on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia (Paus. 3.2.6, 7.4, 4.4.2, 31.3, 7.20.7, &c.; Strab. viii. p.361; Tac. Ann. 4.43), near Calamae (Paus. 4.31.3), at Tegea (8.53.11, comp. 3.14.2), Patrae (7.20.7); it is also used as a surname of nymphs (Theocrit. 5.17) that dwell in lakes or marshes. [L.S]

LIMNAEA

(Λιμναία· Eth. Λιμναῖος : Kervasará), a town in Acarnania at the SE. corner of the Ambraciot gulf, on the very frontier of Acarnania towards Argos. There has been a dispute about its site, but the ruins at Kervasará are probably the remains of Limnaea: some modern writers would place it more to the W., either at Lutráki, or at Ruga. Tie former supposition, however, appears to be the more correct, since we learn from Thucydides that Limnaea lay on the road from Ambracia and Argos Amphilochicum to Stratus, which could not have been the case if Limnaea lay to the W. of Kervasará. Philip III., king of Macedonia, disembarked at Limnaea, when about to invade Aetolia. There is a marsh near Kervasará, two miles in length, from which Limnaea appears to have derived its name. (Thuc. 2.80, 3.105; Plb. 5.5; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 4. p. 243, seq.)

A town of Histiaeotis in Thessaly, taken by the Romans in B.C. 191, was probably on the site of Kortíkhi. (Liv. 36.13; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 4. p. 512.)

(Λιμναία). A town in the north of Acarnania, near the Ambracian Gulf, on which it had a harbour.