Oenussae
Οἰνοῦσσαι
Oenussae (Οἰνοῦσσαι, Οἰνοῦσαι).
1.
A group of islands off the coast of Messenia. [Vol. II. p. 342b.]
2.
A group of islands between Chios and the Asiatic coast. (Hdt. 1.165; Thuc. 8.24; Steph. B. sub voce They are five in number, now called Spalmadores or Ergonisi. Pliny (v. 31. s. 38) mentions only one island.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.