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LINUS.,LINUS. 787
LIME'NIA-, LIMENI'TES,' LIMENI'TIS, ii 19. ~ 7; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1164),'or of
and LIMENO'SCOPUS (At,'vera, AerepJrlTs, Amphimarus by Urania (Paus. ix. 29. ~ 3). ReAiueTrrTs, Aipevo',KoTros), i. e. the protector or specting his mother Psamathe, the story runs thus
superintendent of the harbour, occurs as a surname -When she had given birth to Linus she exposed
of several divinities, such as Zeus (Callimach. the child. He was found by shepherds, who brought
Fragm. 114,2ded. Bentl.), Artemis (Callim. Hymn. him up, but the child was afterwards torn to pieces
in Dian. 259), Aphrodite (Paus. ii. 34. ~ 11; by dogs. Psamathe's grief at the occurrence beServ. ad Aen. i. 724), Priapus (Anthol. Palat. x. trayed her misfortune to her father, who condemned
1, 7), and of Pan (Anthol. Palat. x. 10.) [L. S.] her to death. Apollo, in his indignation at the
LIMETA'NUS, C. MAMI'LIUS, tribune of father's cruelty, visited Argos with a plague, and
the plebs. B.c. 110, carried a law for inquiring when his oracle was consulted about the means of
into the cases of all persons who had assisted averting the plague, he answered that the Argives
Jugurtha in his opposition to the senate, and had must propitiate Psamathe and Linus.' This was:
received bribes from him to neglect their duty to attempted by means of sacrifices, and matrons and
the state. Three quaesitores were appointed under virgins sang dirges which were called AMvoi, and
this law, which was the first serious blow given to the month in which this solemnity was celebrated.
the power of the nobility since the death of C. was called dpvelds, and the festival itself dippls beGracchus. Many men of the highest family were cause Linus had grown up among lambs. The
condemned under it, and among them four who had pestilence, however, did not cease until Crotopusbeen consuls. (Sall. Jug. 40, 65; Cic. Bral. 33, quitted Argos and settled at Tripodisium, in Me34.) The name of Limetanus occurs on a coin of garis (Conon. Narrat. 19; Paus. i. 43. ~ 7; Athen.
the Mamilia gens. [MAMJLIA GENS.] iii. p. 99). According to a Boeotian tradition
LIMENTI'NUS, the god protecting the thresh- Linus was killed by Apollo, because he had venold (limen) of the house. (Arnob. adv. Gent. i. tured upon a musical contest with the god (Paus.
15, iv. 9, 11; Tertull. Idol. 15; August. de Civ. ix. 29. ~g 3; Eustath. ad Hoom. p. 1163), and near
Dei, iv. 8, vi. 7.) Much superstition was con- Mount Helicon his image stood in a hollow rock,
nected among the Romans with the threshold, and formed in the shape of a grotto; and every year~
many persons were very scrupulous in always before sacrifices were offered to the Muses, a funeral
putting the right foot across it first. (Petron. Sat. sacrifice was offered to him, and dirges (Afloi) were
30.) [L. S.] sung in his honour. His tomb was claimed both
LIMNAEA, LIMNE'TES, LIMNE'GENES by the city of Argos and by Thebes (Paus. I. c.,
(AjuEvala (os), Albtvrots (is), At,/rtryev4s), i. e. in- comp.. ii. 19. ~ 7); but after the battle of Chaeroneia,
habiting or born in a lake or marsh, is a surname of Philip of Macedonia was said to have carried away
several divinities who were believed either to have the remains of Linus from Thebes to Macedonia,
sprung from a lake, or had their temples near a Subsequently, however, the king was induced by a
lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens (Eustath. dream to send the remains back to Thebes. Chalcis
ad Hornm. p. 871; Callim. Fragrm. 280, Bentl.; in Euboea likewise boasted of possessing the tomb
Thuc. ii. 15; Aristoph. Ran. 216; Athen. x. p. of Linus, the inscription of which is: preserved by
437, xi. p. 465), and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epi- Diogenes Laertius (Pr-ooem. 4; comp. Suid. s. a.
daurus (Paus. ii. 7. ~ 6, iii. 23. ~ 10), on the fron- Aivos). Being regarded as a son of Apollo and a
tiers between Laconia and Messenia (Paus. iii. 2. Muse, he is said to have' received from: his father
~ 6, 7. ~ 4, iv. 4. ~ 2, 31. ~ 3, vii. 20. ~ 7, &c.; the three-stringed lute, and is himself called the
Strab. viii. p. 361; Tac. Ann. iv. 43), near Calamae inventor of new melodies, of dirges (0prpVoL), ands
(Paus. iv. 31. ~ 3), at Tegea (viii. 53. ~ 11, comp. of songs in general. Hesiod (ap. Clem. Aler.
iii. 14. ~ 2), Patrae (vii. 20. ~ 7); it is also used Strom. i. p. 330) even calls him 7rarfoins aoqplts
as a surname of nymphs (Theocrit. v. 17) that 6e6awcK66s. It is probably owing to the difficulty
dwell in lakes or marshes. [L. S.] of reconciling the different mythuses about Linus,
LIMUS (AiqAgs), the Latin Fames, or personifi- that the Thebans (Paus. ix. 29, in fin.) thought it
cation of hunger. Hesiod (Theop. 227) describes necessary to distinguish between an earlier and later
hunger as the offspring of Eris or Discord. A poet- Linus; the latter is said to have instructed Heracles
ical description of Fames occurs in Ovid (Met. in music, but to have been' killed by the hero
viii. 800, &c.), and Virgil (Aen. vi. 276) places it, (comp. Apollod. ii. 4. ~ 9; Theocrit. xxiv. 103;
along with other monsters, at the entrance of Diodor. iii. 67; Athen. iv. p. 164). In the time
Orcus. [L. S.] of the Alexandrine grammarians people even went
LINAX, artist. [ZENAS.] so far as to look upon Linus as an historical perLI'NDiA (Alt'a), a surname of Athena, derived sonage, and to consider him, like Musaeus, Orpheus,
from the town of Lindus, in the island of Rhodus, and others, as the author of apocryphal works
where she had a celebrated temple. (Diod. v. 58; (Diodor. iii. 66), in which he described the exHerod. ii. 182; Strab. xiv. p. 655). [L. S.] ploits of Dionysus; Diogenes Laertius (Prooena.
LINDINUS, a Latin poet, whose age is quite 3), who calls him a son of Hermes and Urania,
uncertain, but who probably lived at a late period, ascribes to him several poetical productions, such
is the' author of a short poem of twelve lines, "De as a cosmogony on the course of the sun and moon,
Aetate," in which he assigns the different years of on the generation of animals and fruits, and the
life to different occupations, such as the first ten to like.
play, &c. It is printed in the Anthologia Latina The principal places in Greece which are the
(No. 541, ed. Meyer), and by Wernsdorf (Poetae scenes of the legends about Linus are Argos and
Latini Minores, p. 415). Thebes, and the legends themselves bear a strong
LINUS (Aivos), the personification of a dirge resemblance to those about Hyacynthus, Narcissus,
or lamentation, and therefore described as a son Glaucus, Adonis, Maneros, and others, all of whonm
tf Apollo by a Muse (Calliope, or by Psamathe or are conceived as handsome and lovely youths, and
Chalciope, Apollod. i. 3. ~ 2; Paus. i. 43. ~ 7, either as princes or as shepherds. They are the,3 2