Oenus

• a river in Laconia which flows into the Eurotas, now the Kelefina, Liv. 34, 28, 1.

OENUS(Οἰνοῦς: Eth. Οἰνούντιος), a small town in Laconia, celebrated for its wine, from which the river Oenus, a tributary of the Eurotas, appears to have derived its name. From its being described by Athenaeus as near Pitane, one of the divisions of Sparta, it was probably situated near the junction of the Oenus and the Eurotas. (Steph. B. s. v.;Athen. 1. p. 31.) The river Oenus, now called Kelefína, rises in the watershed of Mt. Parnon, and, after flowing in a general south-westerly direction, falls into the Eurotas, at the distance of little more than a mile from Sparta. (Plb. 2.65, 66; Liv. 34.28.) The principal tributary of the Oenus was the Gorgylus (Γόργυλος, Plb. 2.66), probably the river of Vrestená. (Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 347.)

(Οἰνοῦς). (1) A town of Laconia, supposed to have been situated on the river of the same name flowing near Sellasia (Livy, xxxiv. 28).

(2) Or Aenus, a river of Germany, separating Noricum from Vindelicia, and falling into the Danube at Boiodurum (Passau). It is now the Inn.