Λιμηρά

Notes

1. This quotation is unidentifiable but, more importantly, the gloss on it is erroneous. Epidauros↗ Limera, later Monemvasia, lay on the SE coast of Laconia (Peloponnese, Greece), far to the south of its better-known namesake Epidauros↗ in the Argolid (epsilon 2278, epsilon 2279). Often the "Limera" suffix is used without explanation (e.g. Thucydides 4.58.2, 6.105.2; Pausanias 3.21.7, 3.23.6 & 10), but see Strabo 8.6.1 (web address 1): "Apollodorus observes that this city, because it has a good harbour [limen], was called limenera, which was abbreviated and contracted to limera, and its name changed". Modern scholarship accepts this (see LSJ s.v. limhro/s), so two senses of the word need to be distinguished: "well-harbored," as here, and "hunger-causing," as in lambda 547 (and lambda 548).