Οἴνη

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Οἴνη, πόλις Ἄργους. Ἑκαταῖος ἱστοριῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰναῖος Οἰναία Οἰναῖον. Ὦρος δὲ Οἰνώην αὐτήν φησιν, ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰνωάτης καὶ θηλυκὸν Οἰνωᾶτις Ἄρτεμις, ἡ ἐν Οἰνώῃ τῆς Ἀργείας ἱδρυμένη ὑπὸ Προίτου.

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Text Details

Entry	#25
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 486.1 · Billerbeck Ο25
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	32

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Ἱστοριῶν · FGrHist 1 F 4 = fr. 4 Fowler
Ὧρος (Horos)	F 7 Billerbeck

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Οἴνη	Oine (Oinē) · place · corrected · Q11939596
Ἄργος	Argos · place · corrected · Q13533353
Οἰναῖος	Oinaean (demonym) · people
οἰνευία	oineuía (female demonym, variant) · people
οἰναίων	of the Oineans (gen. pl.; demonymal form) · people
Οἰνώνη	Oinōnē (Oinone) · person
Οἰνωάτης	Oinoates (male demonym) · people
Οἰνωᾶτις	Oinoatis (female demonym) · people
Ἄρτεμις	Artemis · deity · corrected · Q39503
Οἴνη	in Oine (locative/dative of Οἴνη) · place · corrected · Q11939596
Ἀργεία	Argolis / the Argive region · place · corrected · Q12649101
Προῖτος	Proitos (Proetus) · person · corrected · Q644604
Οἴνη	place · explicit · wikidata: Q30909902 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon (demonym) Οἰναῖος (masc.), (variants) οἰνευία, οἰναίων.
Eponym Person	Horos says that it (the place) is Oinone herself (i.e., named after Oinone).
Unclear Metalinguistic	Whose ethnicon is Οἰνωάτης (masc.) and the feminine Οἰνωᾶτις (for Artemis of Oinoe).

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Place links	Oenoe \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1893.jpg
Review	Open review page

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