Ligusticum mare, the north part of the Tyrrhene sea, now the gulf of Genoa. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 47.
Ligyes, a people of Asia who inhabited the country between Caucasus and the river Phasis. Some suppose them to be a colony of the Ligyes of Europe, more commonly called Ligures. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 72.—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 1, ch. 10.—Strabo, bk. 4.—Diodorus, bk. 4.
Ligyrgum, a mountain of Arcadia.
Lilæa, a town of Achaia near the Cephisus. Statius, Thebiad, bk. 7, li. 348.
Lĭly̆bæum, now Boco, a promontory of Sicily, with a town of the same name near the Ægates, now Marsalla. The town was strong and very considerable, and it maintained long sieges against the Carthaginians, Romans, &c., particularly one of 10 years against Rome in the first Punic war. It had a port large and capacious, which the Romans, in the wars with Carthage, endeavoured in vain to stop and fill up with stones, on account of its convenience and vicinity to the coast of Africa. Nothing now remains of this once powerful city but the ruins of temples and aqueducts. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 706.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Strabo, bk. 6.—Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 5.—Cæsar, African War.—Diodorus, bk. 22.
Limæa, a river of Lusitania. Strabo, bk. 3.
Limenia, a town of Cyprus. Strabo, bk. 14.
Limnæ, a fortified place on the borders of Laconia and Messenia. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 14.——A town of the Thracian Chersonesus.
Limnæum, a temple of Diana at Limnæ, from which the goddess was called Limnæa, and worshipped under that appellation at Sparta and in Achaia. The Spartans wished to seize the temple in the age of Tiberius, but the emperor interfered, and gave it to its lawful possessors the Messenians. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 14; bk. 7, ch. 20.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 4, ch. 43.
Limnatidia, a festival in honour of Diana, surnamed Limnatis, from Limnæ, a school of exercise at Trœzene, where she was worshipped, or from λιμναι, ponds, because she presided over fishermen.