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Limenia, Limenites, Limenitis

and LIMENO'SCOPUS (Λιμένια, Λιμενιτης, Λιμενῖτις, Λιμενόδκοπος), i. e. the protector or superintendent of the harbour, occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Zeus (Callimach. Fragm. 114, 2ded. Bentl.), Artemis (Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 259), Aphrodite (Paus. 2.34.11; Serv. ad Aen. 1.724), Priapus (Anthol. Palat. 10.1, 7), and of Pan (Anthol. Palat. 10.10.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.