Bible Lexicons

οἶνος, ὁ,

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1. wine, μέλας οἶ. (cf. οἶνοψ) Od. 5.265, 9.196; ἐρυθρός 5.165, 9.163; αἶθοψ Il. 1.462, 4.259; ἡδύς Od. 2.349, 9.204; ἡδύποτος 15.507; μελιηδής Il. 4.346, al.; μελίφρων 6.264; παλαιός Od. 2.340, Pi. O. 9.48, cf. Simon. 75; οἴνους παλαιοὺς εὐώδεις X. An. 4.4.9; ἐΰφρων Il. 3.246; εὐήνωρ Od. 4.622; οἶνον ἔμισγον ἐνὶ κρητῆρσι καὶ ὕδωρ 1.110: with Preps., ἐν οἴνῳ over one's cups, Ar. Lys. 1227, Call. Epigr. 23.8; παρ' οἴνῳ S. OT 780; παρ' οἶνον Plu. 2.143d; μετὰ παιδιᾶς καὶ οἴ. Th. 6.28: also in pl., ἡ ἐν τοῖς οἴ. διατριβή Pl. Lg. 641c, 645c; ἐπ' οἴνοις Pherecr. 153.9: pl. also, οἶνοι, wines, X.l.c., Pl. R. 573a,al.; οἶνος δωδεκάδραχμος wine at 12 drachmae the cask, D. 42.20: prov., οἶ. τῷ φρονεῖν ἐπισκοτεῖ Eub. 135; οἶνος καὶ ἀλάθεα (v. ἀλήθεια), in vino veritas, Alc. 57, Theoc. 29.1; οἶνος.. ἀληθής Pl. Smp. 217e; οἴνῳ τὸν οἶ. ἐξελαύνειν 'to take a hair of the dog that bit you', Antiph. 300.1: οἶνος Isafreq. omitted, πίνεὶν πολύν (sc. οἶνον) E. Cyc. 569, Theoc. 18.11; esp. with names of places, Θάσιος, Χῖος, etc., Eub. 124, 125, 126: resin was used as a preservative, πισσίτης οἶ. Plu. 2.676c.

2. fermented juice of other kinds, οἶνος ἐκ κριθέων πεποιημένος barley wine, a kind of beer, Hdt. 2.77; οἶ. φοινικήϊος palm -wine, ib. 86, cf. 1.193; lotus-wine, Id. 4.177, etc.; from which drinks grape -wine (οἶ. ἀμπέλινος) is expressly distd., Id. 2.60.

II the wine-market, τρέχ' ἐς τὸν οἶ. Ar. Fr. 299.

III name of Dionysus, Orph. Fr. 216. (ϝοῖνος Leg.Gort. 10.39, Inscr.Cypr. 148H.; cf. Lat. vinum. [*]