πόντος, ὁ:
Epic dialect genitive ἐκ ποντόφιν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.83 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—sea, especially open sea, common from [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards, except in Prose, where it is chiefly used of special seas (see. below 11)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in the general sense, ὁπότε πνεῦμα ἐκ πόντου εἴη [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 611e, “Ti.” 25a, LXX.Exo.15.5 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; π. ἀπείριτος, ἀπείρων, εὐρύς, μεγακήτης, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.195, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.350, 6.291, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.158; π. ἠεροειδής, ἰοειδής, μέλας, οἶνοψ, 2.263, 11.107, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.79, 23.316; π. ἀτρύγετος, ἰχθυόεις, 15.27, 19.378; opposed to γαῖα, 8.479, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κέλευθοι, πλάξ, πεδίον πόντου, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.195, 1.24, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 150 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἁλὸς πολιῆς the wide waters of the grey brine, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.59, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 10, 106 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πόντου γέφυρα, πύλαι, of the Isthmus, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.39, 10.27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, π. ἀγαθῶν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 159; π. χρυσίου 3rd c.BC: Phoenix Iambographus 1.2; ἐκπεσεῖν εἰς τὸν ἀνομοιότητος π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 273d (cited in 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 5). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II of special seas, π. Ἰκάριος, Γρηΐκιος, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.145, 23.230; ὁ Αἰγαῖος π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.97, etc.; ὁ π. οὗτος [prev. author] 4.177 (variant)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ἰόνιος, Σαρωνικός, Σικελός, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 225 (Lyric poetry), “Hipp.” 1200, “Cyc.” 703: especially π. Εὔξεινος, [prev. author] “IT” 125 (Lyric poetry, nisi to be read Ἄξεινος); ὁ Εὔξεινος π. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.6, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.96, 97 (called Ἄξεινος, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 218 (Lyric poetry))] Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally called simply ὁ Πόντος or Πόντος, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 878 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.147, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 700, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 354a14, +others; but 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus has also ὁ πόντος] Refs 5th c.BC+] for the sea, [[ 4.99, 177. ] Refs]