Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ncient aqueduct arestill visible. The site of the ancient port, thoughnow filled with mud, may be distinctly traced, but itis of small extent, and could never liave had a depthof more than 12 or 14 feet. The rocks and shoals,which even in ancient times rendered it difficult of LIMENAE. approach (Pol. i. 42), would now effectually preventit from being used as a port for large vessels.(Smyth, I. c. pp. , ) It is a strong proof of the extent to which Greekculture and civilisation were diffused throughoutSicily, that, though we have no account of
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ncient aqueduct arestill visible. The site of the ancient port, thoughnow filled with mud, may be distinctly traced, but itis of small extent, and could never liave had a depthof more than 12 or 14 feet. The rocks and shoals,which even in ancient times rendered it difficult of LIMENAE. approach (Pol. i. 42), would now effectually preventit from being used as a port for large vessels.(Smyth, I. c. pp. , ) It is a strong proof of the extent to which Greekculture and civilisation were diffused throughoutSicily, that, though we have no account of Lily-baeum being at any time in possession of the Greeks,but, on the contrary, we know positively that it wasfounded by the Carthaginians, and continued intheir hands till it under the dominion ofKoine, yet the coins of Lilybaeum are exclusivelyGreek; and we learn from Cicero that it was pos-sible for a man to acquire a knosvledfre of the Greeklansruage and hterature in that city (Cic. in ): [] LIJIITES ROMANI. 191. COIN OF LILYBAEUM. LIMENAE (Aijuerai), also called Lijinopolis(J^ifxvSiv TroAis), a place in the north of Pisidia,which is mentioned only by ecclesiastical writers(Hierocl. p. 672 ; Concil. Chalced. p. 670; Con-di. Const, iii. p. 676, where it is called Au^-yaia). The ancient ruins of Galandos, on the eastof the lake of Eyerdir, are believed to belong toLimenae. (Arundell, Dlscov. in Asia Minor, vol. 326 ; Franz, Fdnf Insch-ift, p. 35.) [L. S.] (AijueWa), a town of Cyprus, whichStrabo (x. p. 683) places S. of Soli. It appears fromsome ecclesiastical documents cited by Wesseling(n/). ffierocl.) to have been 4 M. P. from Soli. NowLimna. (Engel, Kijpros, vol. i. p. 77.) [E. H. B.] LIMIA, river and town. [Gallaecia.] LlMICI. [Gallaecia.] LLMIGANTES. The ordinary account of theLimigantes is as follows. In a. d. 334 — 337, theSarmatians, in alliance with the Vandals underVisumar, provoke the indignation of Constantine bytheir inroads
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