Lemnos, One of the yles called Cyclades, wherein Vnlcane was nourished. This yle was made famous by the Ladye Hipslphile. For the women of Lemnos being in a furie, that their husbands were long absent in warres when they came home (conspiring togither) slue them al in one nighi, except Hipslphile the kings daughter, who saued & conueyed away hir father Thoas. After, when Iason going toward the conquest of the golden fleese, came vnto Lemnos, shee being in loue with him, conceined by him two children twinnes: and when they were borne, the women of the countrey woulde haue put hir to death, for the sauing of hir father: but the in fleeing was taken by Pyrates, and ginen to Lycurgus king of Nemea, whuse sonne Opheltes she nourished. But when the Argiues went to destroy Thebes, Hypsiphile, while she went to shew to the Argines a fountain, left the childe lying on the grasse, who was slain by a serpent. Wherfore when % father of the child wold haue put hir to death, the kings of % Argiues defended and saued hir. Some other write, that Hypsiphile (when shee perceiued Iason did not returne to hir againe, according to his promise) threw hir selfe into the sea, and was drowned.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Lemnos and Lemnus, i, f., = *lh=mnos, the island of Lemnos, in the Ægean Sea; in mythology, the abode of Vulcan; it was also here that Philoctetes was left behind; now Lemno or Stalimeni, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 4; Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 49; Mel. 2, 7, 8; Plin. 4, 12, 23, 73; Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 55; id. Fat. 16, 36; Ov. M. 13, 46; 313; Stat. Th. 5, 49; Val. Fl. 2, 87 et saep.—II. Hence, A. Lemnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Lemnos, Lemnian: quia tibi alia est sponsa locuples Lemnia, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 25: litora, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 11 Müll.: furtum, i. e.
of Prometheus, who stole the fire from Vulcan at Lemnos
, Cic. Tusc. 2, 10, 23: saxum, id. Fin. 2, 29, 94: pater, i. e.
Vulcan
, Verg. A. 8, 454: turba,
the women of Lemnos, who in one night all killed their husbands
, Ov. Ib. 398: rubrica,
a kind of red chalk
, Plin. 28, 8, 24, 88; 29, 5, 33, 104.—Absol.: Lemnĭus, i, m., Vulcan: Lemnius extemplo valvas patefecit eburnas, Ov. M. 4, 185.—Subst.: Lemnii, ōrum, m., inhabitants of Lemnos, Lemnians, Nep. Milt. 1.—B. Lemnĭăcus, a, um, adj., Lemnian: nec major ab antris Lemniacis fragor est, i. e.
Vulcan's forge in Lemnos
, Stat. S. 3, 1, 131: catenae,
the fetters made by Vulcan in Lemnos with which to bind Venus and Mars
, id. Th. 3, 274; Mart. 5, 7, 7.—C. Lemnĭen-sis, e, adj., Lemnian: sua cognata Lemniensis,
from Lemnos
, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 99. —D. Lemnĭas, ădis, f., = *lhmnia/s, a Lemnian woman, Ov. H. 6, 53.—With Gr. form of dat. plur.: Lemniasi gladios in mea damna dabo, Ov. A. A. 3, 672.—Adj.: exsul, i. e.
Hypsipyle
, Stat. Th. 5, 500.—E. Lem-nĭcŏla, ae, m., the dweller in Lemnos, a surname of Vulcan: Lemnicolae stirps, i. e.