Limenia

"Of the Harbor." Also Limenites (Λιμενιτης), Limentis (Λιμενῖτις) and Limenoscopus (Λιμενόσκοπος), i.e. the protector or superintendent of the harbor, occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Zeus,1 Artemis,2 Aphrodite,3 Priapus,4 and of Pan.5

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References

Notes

  1. Callimachus. Fragments, 114 (2nd ed. Bentl.).
  2. Callimachus. Hymn to Artemis, 259.
  3. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 34.11; Servius on Virgil's Aeneid i, 724.
  4. Palatine Anthology x, 1, 7.
  5. Palatine Anthology x, 10.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.