πόντ-ιος, α, ον,
also ος, ον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 595 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (πόντος):— of the sea, epithet of Poseidon, [[ “Hymni Homerici” 22.3, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1072 (Lyric poetry), etc.; πόντιε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1010 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. Θέτις, Νηρηΐδες, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.35, p. 11.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. δάκη sea monsters, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 582 (Lyric poetry); π. βόσκημα [prev. author] “fragment” 275 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. ὕδωρ, πέλαγος, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.64, 7.56 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κύματα, θύελλα, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 89, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1659, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾅδην π. πεφευγότες, i.e. death by drowning, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 667. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b π. ῥάκη, of sponges or fragments of such, [[ “Tragica Adespota” 258. ] Refs]
__2 by the sea, of places, Ἰσθμός, ἀκτή, Χρύση, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.48, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 449, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 269. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 in the sea, of islands, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of those far out to sea, opposed to πρόσγειοι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 368b33, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.6.2, 8.6.6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of ships, βάριδες [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 553 (Lyric poetry); ὅπλισμα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 253 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]