place
Lemnos
also: Lemno, Lemnos
An Aegean island where the wounded Philoctetes was abandoned by the Greeks on the way to Troy. Cicero (De Fato 36-37) uses his being left there as an example of how an outcome reveals the proximate cause.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.94 that Lemnian rock
The island of Lemnos in the northern Aegean, where in the Philoctetes legend the wounded hero was abandoned. Cicero quotes tragic verses (from Accius's Philocteta) depicting the rock resounding with his cries.
- Tusculan Disputations §2.23 the theft on Lemnos
The island of Lemnos in the northern Aegean, sacred to Hephaestus (Vulcan) and associated with fire and metalworking; the source from which Prometheus stole fire for mortals. Hence the penalty he pays in the quoted speech.