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{{for|the town of ancient Thessaly|Leimone (Thessaly)}}
'''Leimone''' (Λειμώνη) or '''Leimonis''' (Λειμωνίς)  was, in an Ancient [[Athens|Athenian]] legend, the daughter of Hippomenes, a descendant of King [[Codrus]]. When her father caught her having illicit sex, he killed her lover and locked her in an empty house together with a horse. The animal eventually came to be starving and devoured Leimone. The remains of that house were still extant in the times of [[Aeschines]], and the place was known as "At the Horse and the Maiden".<ref>Aeschines, ''Against Timarchus'', 182, with [[scholia]] citing [[Callimachus]]</ref><ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Ibis (Ovid)|Ibis]]'', 459 - 460</ref>
==References==
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==Sources==
*[[Pierre Grimal|Grimal, Pierre]]. A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990. - p.&nbsp;242
*Lyons, Deborah. Gender and Immortality: Appendix - A Catalogue of Heroines. Princeton University Press, 1996 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720034913/http://press.princeton.edu/books/lyons/appendix.html]. - under Leimone
* [[Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher]] (ed.): ''Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie''. Band 2.2 (L-M), Leipzig, 1894–1897. - s. 1934
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