Limnaeus, Limnaios, Limnaea, Limnaee, Limnetes, or Limnagenes,LSJ: limnaios meaning in Greek "inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh".
Greek Mythology It is an ancient Greek 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 Horn. p. 871; Callim. Fragm. 280, Bentl.; Time. ii. 15; Aristoph. Ran. 216; Athen. x. p. 437, xi. p. 465) and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus,(Paus. ii. 7. § 6, iii. 23. § 10) on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia,(Paus. iii. 2. § 6, 7. § 4, iv. 4. § 2, 31. § 3, vii. 20. § 7, &c.; Strab. viii, p. 361; Tac. Ann. iv. 43) near Calamae,(Paus. iv. 31. § 3), at Tegea (viii. 53. § 11, comp. iii. 14. § 2) Patrae;(vii. 20. § 7) it is also used as a surname of nymphs(Theocrit. v. 17) that dwell in lakes or marshes.
Limnaee was the Naiad-nymph of a lake in India and daughter of the river Ganges. She had a son named Athis.Ovid, Metamorphoses 5. 47
Cities/Towns Limnaea (Λιμναία), an ancient town of Thessaly.Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Limnaea Limnaea (Acarnania), a city in ancient Acarnania.Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Limnaea
Names Limnaeus or Limnaios is also used as a name:
Limnaeus, a general of Alexander the Great, in the battle of Malli (see Habreas) Limnaios son of Harpalos, a land-owner; he was given estates in Chalcidice by king LysimachusSEG 38.619 Limnaios and Lysanias helped Rhodes after 226 BC earthquakePolybius 5.90.1 Limnaeus, an ambassador of Philip V of Macedon (see Cycliadas) Saint Limnaeus, disciple of Saint Thalassius, an hermit in Syria (5th century). Theodoret records that Limnaeus had been living in this way for thirty-eight years. Johannes Limnaeus (Johann Wirn) (1592–1663) German professor who wrote a work entitled "Jus publicum Imperii Romano-Germanici" Georg Limnaeus (1554–1611) German professor of mathematics in Jena Toula Limnaios, a Greek choreographer
Zoology Limnaeus is also a surname of species in zoology (i.e. Austrofundulus limnaeus, a fish, Gammarus limnaeus, an amphipod ).
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