Limnaeus

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, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs 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. ==Cities/Towns==

• Limnaea (Λιμναία), an ancient town of Thessaly. • Limnaea (Acarnania), a city in ancient Acarnania. ==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 Lysimachus • Limnaios and Lysanias helped Rhodes after 226 BC earthquake • 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 ). ==References==