Οἴνη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #25
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 486.1 | Billerbeck: Ο25
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 32
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 4 = fr. 4 Fowler [Ἱστοριῶν], Ὧρος (Horos) F 7 Billerbeck
Entities: Οἴνη (Oine (Oinē)) [place], Ἄργος (Argos) [place], 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], Οἴνη (in Oine (locative/dative of Οἴνη)) [place], Ἀργεία (Argolis / the Argive region) [place], Προῖτος (Proitos (Proetus)) [person]
Etymologies: 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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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.

Oinē: a city of Argos. Hekataios in Book 1 of the Histories. The ethnic is Oinaîos (†oineuía oinaíōn†). But Hōros (F 7 Billerbeck) says that it itself is Oinōnē, whose ethnic is Oinōátēs, and the feminine (sc. form) Oinōátis; (thus) Artemis Oinōátis, the goddess established at Oinoē in the Argolid by Proitos.

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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…