LogeionPerseus analysis of πόντον:
πόντος (sea): masc acc sg
LSJ entry
πόντος
πόντος,
ὁ:
Ep. gen. ἐκ ποντόφιν Od. 24.83:—
A. sea, esp. open sea, common from Hom. downwds., exc. in Prose, where it is chiefly used of special seas (v. infr. II); in the general sense, ὁπότε πνεῦμα ἐκ πόντου εἴη Th. 4.26,
cf. Pl. R. 611e,
Ti. 25a,
LXX Ex. 15.5;
π. ἀπείριτος, ἀπείρων, εὐρύς, μεγακήτης, Od. 10.195,
Il. 1.350,
6.291,
Od. 3.158;
π. ἠεροειδής, ἰοειδής, μέλας, οἶνοψ, 2.263,
11.107,
Il. 24.79,
23.316;
π. ἀτρύγετος, ἰχθυόεις, 15.27,
19.378;
opp. γαῖα, 8.479,
etc.; κέλευθοι, πλάξ, πεδίον πόντου, Pi. P. 4.195,
1.24,
A. Fr. 150 (anap.); π. ἁλὸς πολιῆς the wide waters of the grey brine, Il. 21.59,
Thgn. 10,
106;
πόντου γέφυρα, πύλαι, of the Isthmus, Pi. N. 6.39,
10.27.
II. of special seas, π. Ἰκάριος, Γρηΐκιος, Il. 2.145,
23.230;
ὁ Αἰγαῖος π. Hdt. 2.97,
etc.; ὁ π. οὗτος Id. 4.177 (v.l.); Ἰόνιος, Σαρωνικός, Σικελός, E. Tr. 225 (lyr.), Hipp. 1200,
Cyc. 703:
esp. π. Εὔξεινος, Id. IT 125 (lyr., nisi leg. Ἄξεινος )
; ὁ Εὔξεινος π. Hdt. 1.6,
Th. 2.96,
97 (called Ἄξεινος, E. IT 218 (lyr.)); generally called simply ὁ Πόντος or Πόντος, A. Pers. 878 (lyr.), Hdt. 7.147,
Ar. V. 700,
Arist. Mete. 354a14,
al.; but Hdt. has also ὁ πόντος for the sea, 4.99,
177.