Ancient Greek

The dark Mediterranean Sea

Adjective

οἶνοψ • ‎(oînops) m, genitive οἴνοπος ‎(oínopos)

1. (Homeric epithet of the sea or cattle) winy, wine-colored: dark, purplish
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.613

     αὐτὸς γάρ σφιν δῶκεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων
     νῆας ἐϋσσέλμους περάᾱν ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον
     Ἀτρεΐδης, ἐπεὶ οὔ σφι θαλάσσια ἔργα μεμήλει.

     For Agamemnon son of Atreus himself had given [the Arcadians]
     strong-benched ships for crossing the wine-dark sea,
     since they weren't interested in the work of the sea.

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.31–35

     ὡς δ' ὅτ' ἀνὴρ δόρποιο λιλαίεται, ᾧ τε πανῆμαρ
     νειὸν ἀν' ἕλκητον βόε οἴνοπε πηκτὸν ἄροτρον ...
     ὣς Ὀδυσῆ' ἀσπαστὸν ἔδῡ φάος ἠελίοιο.

     As when a man longs for supper who all day
     has had two wine-dark oxen pulling a crafted plow through fallow land, ...
     so it was welcome for Odysseus that the sun's light set.

Declension

References

• οἶνοψ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• οἶνοψ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• οἶνοψ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «οἶνοψ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «οἶνοψ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963