In this note various lower bounds for all the eigenvalues of the solution matrix

of the Lyapunov matrix equation are established. A special case of this result is a generalization of that presented in [1]-[3], where lower bounds for the maximum and minimum eigenvalues of

are given. Moreover, the approach used here enables one to establish various lower bounds for some of the (largest) eigenvalues of the solution matrix of the algebraic Riccati equation.