- Wine-dark sea is a
traditional English translation of
oînops póntos (οἶνοψ πόντος, IPA: /ôi̯.nops pón.tos/), from oînos (οἶνος, "wine") + óps (ὄψ, "eye;...
- 1798
Simia erythraea Shaw, 1800
Macaca nipalensis Hodgson, 1840
Macaca oinops Hodgson, 1840
Inuus sanctijohannis R. Swinhoe, 1866
Inuus sancti-johannis...
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Typis academicis. OCLC 744697285.
Suidas s.v.
Oinops (quoting Gr****
Anthology 6. 44. 5 and 7. 20. 2) : "
Oinops (wine-dark): 'to wine-dark [so-and-so],' to...
- of Homer,
formulas included eos
rhododaktylos ("rosy
fingered dawn") and
oinops pontos ("winedark sea")
which fit in a
modular fashion into the
poetic form...
- in the form of the horn-shaped
drinking cups
called rhyta; the name of
Oinops (Gr****: οἶνοψ, "wine-colored") is
twice attested in
Linear B
tablets at...
-
unmixed wine".
Homer frequently refers to the "wine-dark sea" (οἶνωψ πόντος,
oīnōps póntos): in lack of a name for the
color blue, the Gr****s
would simply refer...
-
defensive wall" The "walls" of
ships during the
Persian Wars. οἶνοψ πόντος
oînops póntos "Wine dark sea" A
common Homeric epithet of the sea, on
which many...
-
describe blood, a dark cloud, a wave, and a rainbow, and he uses the
epithet oinops ("wine-looking") to
refer to the sea.
Gladstone explained this by suggesting...
- for example, a
phrase like
rhododaktylos eos ("rosy
fingered dawn") or
oinops pontos ("winedark sea")
occupy a
certain metrical pattern that fits, in...
- is ****igned the Gate of
Athena Onca
defended by Hyperbius, the son of
Oinops. 5. Parthenopaeus, on his
shield a Sphinx, is ****igned the
North Gate defended...
