Λιμναία - Stephanos Ethnika

Λιμναία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

village

Λιμναία, κώμη τοῦ Ἄργους. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λιμναῖος. Θουκυδίδης δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ν » τὴν δευτέραν συλλαβήν.

Limnaia: a village of Argos. The ethnonym is 'Limnaios'. Thucydides, book 2, has the second syllable with ν.

Entry	#69
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 417.9 · Billerbeck Λ69
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	15
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Author	Work / Citation
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	(2,80,8)

Entity	Details
Λιμναία	Limnaea (Limnaia) · place
Ἄργος	Argos · place
Λιμναῖος	Limnaean (inhabitant of Limnaia) · people

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	'Limnaia: a village of Argos. The ethnicon is Limnaios. Thucydides (2.80.8), however, uses a nu in the second syllable.'

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