Leimone

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

LEIMO´NE(Λειμώνη), the later name of the Homeric ELONE(Ἠλώνη), according to Strabo, was a town of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, and was situated at the foot of Mount Olympus, not far from the Titaresius or Eurotas. The Greeks of Elassónareport that there are some remains of this city at Selos. (Hom. Il. 2.739; Strab. 9. p. 440; Steph. B. s. v. Ἠλώνη;Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 3. p. 345.)