Limon

Family: Tegean royal family · Role: brother of Scephrus · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 53

At Tegea in Book 8, Chapter 53, Limon mistook Scephrus’s private conversation for an accusation, ran at his brother, and slew him. “But swift vengeance came upon Limon”: Artemis at once killed him with an arrow.

Relationship record

Life events

• Limon mistook Scephrus’s private conversation for an accusation and slew his brother.(Book 8 · Chapter 53 · 📍 Tegea)
  • With: Scephrus
  • “And Limon his brother, thinking Scephrus was making some charge against him, ran at his brother and slew him.”
• Artemis killed Limon with an arrow in swift vengeance.(Book 8 · Chapter 53 · 📍 Tegea)
  • With: Artemis
  • “But swift vengeance came upon Limon, for Artemis at once transfixed him with an arrow.”

Book 8 · Chapter 53

• siblings with Scephrus “And Limon his brother, thinking Scephrus was making some charge against him, ran at his brother and slew him.”
• with Scephrus (Limon killed Scephrus.) “And Limon his brother, thinking Scephrus was making some charge against him, ran at his brother and slew him.”
• with Artemis (Artemis killed Limon.) “But swift vengeance came upon Limon, for Artemis at once transfixed him with an arrow.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.