The corpus record

λίμνη

limne · ἡ

pool of standing water

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Where it lives

Revelation 6 · 6.07/10k
Frogs 5 · 5.49/10k
Histories 97 · 5.29/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
Phaedo 9 · 4.13/10k
De aere aquis et locis 3 · 4.05/10k
Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Luke 5 · 2.59/10k
Ion 2 · 2.19/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k

Densest 12 of 39 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

λίμν-η · limn-ē — LSJ

pool of standing water, marshy lake, mere

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 artificial pool, basin

also, artificial pool or basin, Hdt. 1.185, 191, al., SIG 799 ii 3 (Cyzic., i A.D.).

2 the sea, bay

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; ἐπʼ 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 a quarter of Athens, marshy

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 II.

2 a quarter, suburb of Sparta

a quarter or suburb of Sparta, Str. 8.5.1.

3 a place in Messenia

a place in Messenia, Id. 8.4.9.

In the wild

λίμνην · limnēn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 302
λίμνην · limnēn Aeschylus, Eumenides 9–11
λίμνας · limnas Aeschylus, Persians 864–878
λίμναν · limnan Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 415–428
λίμνης · limnēs Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 729–731
λίμνᾳ · limnai Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 529–530

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