| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Nymph name "Leucippe" | Greek | 1. One of the nymphs who was with Persephone at the time she was carried off. 2. The wife of Ilus, and mother of Laomedon. 3. A daughter of Thestor. 4. The wife of Thestius. 5. A daughter of Minyas of Orchomenos. Greek |
"Leucippus" | Greek | 1. A son of Oenomaus. 2. A son of Perieres and Gorgophone, and brother of Aphareus. He was the father of Arsinoe, Phoebe, and Hilaeira, and prince of the Messenians. He is mentioned among the Calydonian hunters, and the Boeotian town of Leuctra is said to have derived its name from him. Greek |
| Goddess name "Leucothea" | Greek | Leukothea. [White Goddess]. So Ino was called after she became a sea nymph. Her son Pal?mon, called by the Romans Portunus, or Portumnus, was the protecting genius of harbours. Greek |
"Libya" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Epaphus and Memphis, from whom Libya (Africa) is said to have derived its name. By Poseidon she is said to have been the mother of Agenor, Belus and Lelex. 2. A daughter of Palamedes, and by Hermes the mother of Libys. 3. A sister of Asia. Greek |
"Libys" | Greek | The name of two mythical personages, one a son of Libya, and the other one of the Tyrrhenian pirates whom Bacchus changed into dolphins. Greek |
"Libystnus" | Greek | That is, the Libyan, a surname under which Apollo was worshipped by the Sicilians, because he was believed to have destroyed by a pestilence a Libyan fleet which sailed against Sicily. Greek |
"Lichas" | Greek | An attendant of Heracles. He brought to his master the deadly garment, and as a punishment, was thrown by him into the sea, where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and the coast of Locris, were believed to have derived their name from him. Greek |
| Nymph name "Ligeia" | Greek | I. e. the shrill sounding, occurs as the name of a seiren and of a nymph. Greek |
"Ligyron" | Greek | I. e. the whining, is said to have been the original name of Achilles, and to have been changed into Achilles by Cheiron. Greek |
| Monster name "Limits" | Greek | The Latin Fames, or personification of hunger. Hesiod describes hunger as the offspring of Eris or Discord. A poetical description of Fames occurs in Ovid and Virgil places it along with other monsters, at the entrance of Orcus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Limnades" | Greek | A goddesses of lakes, marshes, swamps |
| Nymph name "Limnaea" | Greek | Limnetes, Limnades, Limnegenes, i. e. inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh, is a surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake, or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, at Tegea, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes. Greek |
| Goddess name "Lina" | Greek | Goddess of spring. Greek |
"Linden Tree" | Greek | Baucis was converted into a linden tree. Philemon and Baucis were poor cottagers of Phrygia, who entertained Jupiter so hospitably that he promised to grant them whatever request they made. They asked that both might die together, and it was so. At death Philemon became an oak and Baucis a linden tree. Their branches intertwined at the top. Greek |
"Lindia" | Greek | A surname of Athena, derived from the town of Lindus, in the island of Rhodus, where she had a celebrated temple. Greek |
"Linus" | Greek | The personification of a dirge or lamentation, and therefore described as a son of Apollo by a Muse. Greek |
| Goddess name "Lipse" | Greek | wind goddess Greek |
"Litae" | Greek | A personification of the prayers offered up in repentance. They are described as the daughters of Zeus, and as following closely behind crime, and endeavouring to make amends for what has been done but whoever disdains to receive them, has himself to atone for the crime that has been committed. Greek |
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