Οἴνη - Stephanos Ethnika

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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 (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 486.1
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

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).

Links

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

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.334

char LCS 36 (21.6%) · word LCS 6 (18.8%)

Stephanos

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.

Herodian

… δὲ Φωτεινή κύριον διὰ τῆς 'ει' διφθόγγου γραφόμενον ὀξύνεται. μετάγεται γὰρ ἀπὸ ἐπιθέτου. Τὰ εἰς 'νη' δισύλλαβα μονογενῆ παραληγόμενα μὲν τῇ 'οι' διφθόγγῳ βαρύνονται, οἴνη ἡ ἄμπελος καὶ ὁ ἐν τοῖς βόλοις κενός· ἔστι καὶ Οἴνη πόλις Ἄργους. Ἑκαταῖος ἱστοριῶν πρώτῳ. θοίνη ἡ τροφή. τὸ δὲ ποινή ὀξύνεται. παραληγόμενα δὲ 'ο' ὀξύνεται, μονή, γονή καὶ φονή ἡ ὀλεθρία. * Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'οινη' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς ἔχοντα πρὸ τοῦ 'ν' τὴν 'οι' δίφθογγον οὐκ εἰσὶ γνήσια. τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀγκοίνη βαρυνόμε…