Ῥαμνοῦς

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Menander, Monostichoi, 330
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Transliteration A: Rhamnoûs Transliteration B: Rhamnous Transliteration C: Ramnoys Beta Code: *(ramnou=s

English (LSJ)

Ῥαμνοῦντος (contr. from ῥαμνόεις), ὁ, Rhamnus, a deme in Attica (named from the ῥάμνοι growing in it), ἡ ἐν Ῥαμνοῦντι θεός, i.e. Nemesis, Paus.1.33.2, cf. Str.9.1.17 and 22; Ῥαμνοῦντι, not ἐν Ῥαμνοῦς, at Rhamnus, Lys.19.28, etc.—Hence Ῥαμνούσιος, Ῥαμνουσία, Ῥαμνούσιον, Rhamnusian, Aeschin.1.157, etc.; ἡ Ῥαμνουσία, epithet of Nemesis from her temple at Rhamnus, Hsch., etc.; also Ῥαμνουσίς, Ῥαμνουσίδος, ἡ, Call.Dian. 232; Ῥαμνουσιάς, Ῥαμνουσιάδος, ἡ, IG14.1389 ii 2.

French (Bailly abrégé)

Ῥαμνοῦντος (ὁ) :
Rhamnonte, dème attique de la tribu Æantide.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Ῥαμνοῦς: Ῥαμνοῦντος ὁ Рамнунт (дем в атт. филе Αἰαντίς): Ῥαμνοῦντι Lys. в Рамнунте.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

Ῥαμνοῦς: Ῥαμνοῦντος, (συνηρ. ἐκ τοῦ ῥαμνόεις), ὁ, δῆμος τῆς Ἀττικῆς (κληθεὶς οὕτως ἐκ τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ φυομένων ῥάμνων), ἡ ἐν Ῥαμν.· θεός, δηλ. ἡ Νέμεσις, Παυσ. 1. 33, 2, πρβλ. Στράβ. 396, 399, Wordsw. Athens and Att. σ. 43· Ῥαμνοῦντι, οὐχὶ ἐν Ῥαμνοῦντι, Cobet V. LL. σ. 201. ― Ἐντεῦθεν Ῥαμνούσιος, α, ον, Ρήτορες: ἡ Ῥαμνουσία, ἐπίθετ. τῆς Νεμέσεως ἐκ τοῦ ὅτι «ἐν Ραμνοῦντι Νεμέσεως ἵδρυτο ἄγαλμα δεκάπηχυ, ὁλόλιθον, ἔργον Φειδίου, ἔχον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ μηλέας κλάδον» Ἡσύχ., κλ. ὡσαύτως Ῥαμνουσίς, -ίδος, ἡ, Καλλ. εἰς Ἄρτ. 232· Ῥαμνουσιάς, -άδος, ἡ, Ἀνθ. Π. παράρτ. 50. 2.

Greek Monolingual

ο / Ῥαμνοῦς, Ῥαμνοῦντος, ΝΜΑ, και Ραμνούντας Ν
δήμος της Αιαντίδος φυλής, στη βορειοανατολική παραλία της Αττικής, πάνω στον Ευβοϊκό Κόλπο.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < ῥάμνος + κατάλ. -οῦς (< -όεις), πρβλ. Σεληνοῦς].

Wikipedia EN

Rhamnous (Ancient Greek: Ῥαμνοῦς, romanized: Rhamnoûs; Modern Greek: Ραμνούς, romanized: Ramnoús), also Ramnous or Rhamnus, was an ancient Greek city in Attica situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait. Its ruins lie northwest of the modern town of Agia Marina in the municipality of Marathon.

The site was best known in antiquity for its sanctuary of Nemesis, the implacable avenging goddess, her most important in ancient Greece.

Rhamnous is the best-preserved Attic deme site. It was strategically significant on the sea routes and was fortified with an Athenian garrison of ephebes (young men). A fortified acropolis dominates the two small harbours located on either side of it which have silted up extensively since antiquity, and into which grain was imported for Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

It derived its name from Buckthorn, a thick prickly shrub, which still grows upon the site.


Rhamnus or Rhamnous (Ancient Greek: Ῥαμνοῦς) was a harbour on the west coast of ancient Crete near the promontory Chersonesus. Pliny the Elder, on the contrary, places it in the interior of the island. The site of Rhamnus is located at Ormos Stomiou.