*limhra/. a)po\ *meqw/nhs e)n *)epidau/rw| th=| *limhra=| prossxw/n. a)nti\ tou= penixra=|.
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).
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