Œnomaus

A form of Oenomaus — A king of Pisa, son of Ares and father of Hippodamia.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Greekalternativehuman sciencesAlternative form of Oenomaus.

    This ſeemed totally impoſſible, and to render it more terrible, Œnomaus declared that death would be the conſequence of a defeat in the ſuitors.

    1797 C.E., John Lemprière, Bibliotheca Classica, third edition, MY, page #519
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    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[…]

    2015 July 6, Richard A. Spencer, Harry Potter and the Classical World: Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic, McFarland, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235
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