In the Idylls of Theocritus, there is mention of a group of under the name " Limnades" (; ).[ RE, s.v. Limnades.] In Neil Hopkinson's translation, they are referred to as "Nymphs of the lake".[Hopkinson, p. 85.]
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Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XIII, Halbband 1, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1926. Wikisource.
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Theocritus, Idylls in Theocritus. Moschus. Bion, edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson, Loeb Classical Library No. 28, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2015. . Harvard University Press.
