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fpecimen in the Bankfian herbarium. We are at a lofs 
to account for the younger Linnaeus giving it the name 
of apkyllum, and faying that it feems to be leaflefs, when 
he has defcribed the leaves as ovate and feflile, and there 
are abundance of root-leaves, and no want of ftem-leaves. 
3. Limeum ./Ethiopicum, or Ethiopic limeum : leaves 
linear-lanceolate. Of this we have no defcription ; but 
it is only mentioned byThunbergin his Prodromus. We 
have here a deplorable inftance of the infufficiency of tri¬ 
vial names, in Africanum, Capevje, /Ethiopicum, which diftin- 
guifli nothing ; all thefe plants being natives of the Cape 
■of Good Hope. 
There is a fourth fpecies in the Bankfian herbarium, 
fent from the fame country by MafTon, which is truly a 
fhrub, and may be called Limeum fruticans. See Ranun¬ 
culus thora. 
LIM'INARY, adj. \_limen, Lat. a threfhold.J Set at the 
head ; preliminary. Cole. 
LI'MING, f. The a£t of fmearing with lime. 
LIMIN'GO, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Ulea : eleven miles fouth of Ulea. 
LIM'INGTON, a town of America, in York county, 
and ftate of Maine, bounded north and eaft by Saco ri¬ 
ver : fifty miles north of York. 
LIM'INGTON, in England. See Lymincton. 
LIMIS'SO, Limesol, or Limassol ; formerly called 
Nemofia, from the multitude of woods by which it was fur- 
rounded ; and (till more anciently Amathus ; a feaport-town 
of Cyprus, in the fouth of the ifland. Of the ancient city 
nothing but ruins now remains; though it was a cele¬ 
brated place, even under the government of the dukes. 
King Richard, the conqueror of the laft of thefe vaflals 
of the empire, razed it in 1191, and it was never after¬ 
wards rebuilt. As Amathus, or Amathonte, it was fa¬ 
mous for its temple erected in honour of Venus and Ado¬ 
nis, in which was preferved, according to Paufanias, a 
rich necklace of precious ftones, ornamented with gold, 
the work ofiVulcan, and given in the firft inftance to Her- 
inione. Amathus was the refidence of the nine firft kings 
of the ifland ; and, amongft others, of Oneliftus, who was 
iubjefted afterwards by the arms of Artabanes, the Per- 
fian general. This city, erefted into an archbiftiopric in 
the time of the Chriftians, has produced a number of per- 
fonages celebrated for their knowledge and the fanClity of 
their lives. In the neighbourhood there are feveral cop¬ 
per-mines, which the Turks have been forced to abandon. 
The following lines, in the tenth book of Ovid’s Meta- 
morphofes, prove that they were known in the time of 
that poet : 
Capta viri forma, non jam Cytherea curat 
Littora, non alto repetit Paphon cequore cin&atn, 
Pifcofamque Gnidon, gravidamque Amathunta metallis. 
After Richard king of England had deftroyed Amathonte, 
or rather Nemofia, Guy of Lufignan laid the foundation 
of Limiflo, which the Greeks called Neopoleos. The fa¬ 
mily of Lufignan, who continued to embellifh and fortify 
it, built there palaces, and Greek and Latin churches ; 
and made it the feat of a bifliop. When the ifland was 
taken by the Turks in 1570, the Ottoman army entered 
this city on the 2d of July, and ravaged it without mercy. 
It was then deftroyed by the flames ; and at prefent it is 
only a wretched place, in which one can fcarcely diftin- 
guilh any remains of its ancient edifices. It is governed 
by a commiflary and a cadi; the latter judges cafes only 
provifionally, before they are carried to the fuperior tri¬ 
bunal of Nicofia. The harbour is very commodious ; 
and, being flieltered from impetuous winds, it affords a 
Life and calm afylumto vefiels when overtaken by a ftcrm. 
The carob-tree is here more abundant than anywhere 
elfe; and it is from the port of Limiflo that the greateft 
quantity of its fruit is exported. The inhabitants export 
alfo fait, procured from a lake near Salines. Cotton, 
wheat, barley, and mulberry-trees, are both plentiful and 
well-cultivated in this part of the ifland ; the ground alfo 
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produces all kinds of garden-ftuff. The beft Cyprus 
wine is made from the vines that grow on the hills of 
Limiflo. All the wines of the country are collected in 
this city to be tranfported to Larnic, where there are the 
larged: cellars, and which on that account becomes the 
natural centre of commerce. 
Near Limiflo, to the eaft of it, is the moft fouthern pro¬ 
montory of the ifland, formerly named the promontory of 
Agrotiri, at prefent Cape di Gatti, or Gatto, on account 
of the number of cats kept by the monks, who, in the 
fourth century, obtained perrnifllon toeftablifh themfeives 
there, as well as on Mount Olympus, on condition of 
keeping many of thofe animals for hunting and deftroying 
lnakes, which had multiplied in the ifland. Litniflo is ftill 
the fee of a bifliop, fuifragan of Nicofia. Lat. 34.45. N. 
Ion. 32.30.E. 
LIM'IT, f. [limite, Fr. from limitor, Lat.] Bound; bor¬ 
der ; utmoft reach.—The whole limit of the mountain 
round about final I be moft holy. Exod. xliii. 11. 
We went, great emperor, by thy command, 
To view the utmoft limits of the land ; 
Ev’n to the place where no more world is found. 
But foaming billows beating on the ground. Dry den. 
To LIM'IT, v. a. To confine within certain bounds ; 
to reftrain ; to circumfcribe; not to leave at large.—If 
a king come in by conqueft, he is no longer a limited mo¬ 
narch. Swift. 
Thanks I muft you con, that you 
Are thieves profeft; for there is boundlefs theft 
In limited profeflions. Shakefpeare's Timon of Athens. 
To reftrain from a lax or general fignification : as. The 
univerfe is here limited to this earth. 
LIMITANE'I,/. Among the ancient Romans, an ap¬ 
pellation given to the foldiers who were ltationed on the 
frontiers of the empire. 
LIMITA'NEOUS, adj. Belonging to the bounds or li¬ 
mits. Scott. 
LIM'ITARY, adj. Placed at the boundaries as a guard 
or luperintendant: 
Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains. 
Proud limitary cherub ! Milton's Paradife lojl. 
LIMITA'TION, f. Reftriclion ; circumfcription.—If 
a king come in by conqueft, he is no longer a limited mo¬ 
narch ; if he afterwards confent to limitations , he become* 
immediately king de jure. Swift. 
Am I yourfelf, 
But, as it were, in fort of limitation ? Shakefpcare. 
Confinement from a lax or undeterminate import.—The 
caufe of error is ignorance, what reltraints and limitations 
all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they 
are applicable. Hooker. —Limited time : 
You’ve flood your limitation, and the tribunes 
Endue you with the people’s voice. Skakefp. Coriolanus. 
Limitation, in law, is a certain time, afligned by fta- 
tute, within which an aft ion muft be brought. The time 
of limitation is two-fold: firft, in writs by divers afts of 
parliament; fecondly, to make a title to any inheritance, 
and that is by the common-law. Co. Lit. 114, 115. Be¬ 
fore the flat. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2, certain remarkable pe¬ 
riods were fixed upon, within which the titles, whereon 
men defigned to be relieved, muft have accrued ; thus by 
the ftatute Weftrn. 1. (3 Edw. I.) c. 39, and Weftm. 2. 
(3 Edw. I.) c. 46, the writ of right was limited to the 
firft coronation of Henry III. This date of limitation 
continued fo long unaltered, that it became indeed no li¬ 
mitation at all ; it being above three hundred years from 
Henry Ill’s coronation to the year 1540, when the fta¬ 
tute of limitation, 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2. was made. 
There are now feveral Statutes of Limitation, by which z 
certain time is preferibed, beyond which no plaintifF can 
lay his caufe of aftion. This, by flat. 32 Hen. VIII. c, 
2, in a writ of right is fixty years; in aiiifes, writs of en- 
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