Onchestus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Poseidon's bright grove · grassy Onchestus · lord of the shrine · lovely grove
in the texts
Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo
Onchestus is Poseidon's grove, marked by a chariot ritual and prayers to the shrine's lord.
And further still you went, O far-shooting Apollo, and came to Onchestus, Poseidon's bright grove:
and if they break the chariot in the woody grove, men look after the horses, but tilt the chariot and leave it there;
Hymn 4 to Hermes
Onchestus is the sacred grove and vineyard area where a mortal witness observes Hermes' cattle drive and speaks with Apollo.
Now Eos the early born, bringing light to men, was rising from deep-flowing Ocean, when Apollo, as he went, came to Onchestus, the lovely grove and sacred place of the loud-roaring Holder of the Earth.
But an old man tilling his flowering vineyard saw him as he was hurrying down the plain through grassy Onchestus.
-->“Old man, weeder of grassy Onchestus, I am come here from Pieria seeking cattle, cows all of them, all with curving horns, from my herd.