. e old man, near the altarof Telephus in Arcadia. Diomedes buried hisbody at Argos, and named the town of Oenoeafter him. According to others Oeneus lived toextreme old age with Diomedes at Argos, anddied a natural death (Apollod. i. 8, 5 ; 37 ; Diod. iv. 65). Homer knows nothingof all this; he merely relates that Oeneus onceneglected to sacrifice to Artemis, in conse-quence of which she sent a monstrous boarinto the territory of Calydon, which was huntedby Meleager. Bellerophon was hospitably en-tertained by Oeneus, and re
. e old man, near the altarof Telephus in Arcadia. Diomedes buried hisbody at Argos, and named the town of Oenoeafter him. According to others Oeneus lived toextreme old age with Diomedes at Argos, anddied a natural death (Apollod. i. 8, 5 ; 37 ; Diod. iv. 65). Homer knows nothingof all this; he merely relates that Oeneus onceneglected to sacrifice to Artemis, in conse-quence of which she sent a monstrous boarinto the territory of Calydon, which was huntedby Meleager. Bellerophon was hospitably en-tertained by Oeneus, and received from him acostly girdle as a present (II. vi. 216, ix. 532). Oeniadae (OlvidSai: Trigardon or Tri-khardo), town of Acarnania, situatedon the Achelous near its mouth, and surroundedby marshes caused by the overflowing of theriver, which thus protected it from hostileattacks (Thuc. ii. 102). Unlike the other citiesof Acarnania, Oeniadae espoused the cause ofthe Spartans in the Peloponnesian war. At thetime of Alexander the Great, the town was. Coin of \, head of Zeus; rev., OINIAAAl; head of river-godAchelous, partly human, partly bull. taken by the Aetolians, who expelled the in-habitants ; but the Aetolians were expelled intheir turn by Philip V., king of Macedonia, whosurrounded the place with strong Romans restored the towns to the Acarna-nians. The fortress Nesus or Nasus belongingto Oeniadae was situated on a small lake nearit. (Diod. xviii. 8 ; Pol. iv. 65 ; Liv. ; Paus. iv. 25 ; Strab. p. 459.) Oenides, a patronymic from Oeneus given toMeleager, his son, and Diomedes, his grandson. Oenoanda or Oeneanda, a town of AsiaMinor, in the district of Cabalia, subject toCibyra (Strab. p. 631; Liv. xxxviii. 37). Oenobaras (Oiuofidpas), a tributary of theOrontes, flowing through the plain of Antioch,in Syria (Strab. p. 751). Oenoe (Olvoi): Olvoaios). 1. A demus ofAttica, belonging to the tribe Hippothoontis,near Eleutherae o
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