Œnomaus
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Œnomaus
- (Greek mythology) Alternative form of Oenomaus
- 1797 C.E., John Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica, third edition, MY, page #519
- This ſeemed totally impoſſible, and to render it more terrible, Œnomaus declared that death would be the conſequence of a defeat in the ſuitors.
- 2015 July 6, Richard A. Spencer, Harry Potter and the Classical World: Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic[1], McFarland, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
- For every suitor, he presented the challenge of a chariot race across the Peloponnese to the Isthmus of Corinth. If the challenger won, he got to marry the girl. If he lost, the king would kill him. Oenomaüs was weighed down with his full armor— probably so as to be ready to murder the challenger who would lose […]
- 1797 C.E., John Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica, third edition, MY, page #519