place
Onchesmus
also: Onchesmites
A harbour on the coast of Epirus (modern Saranda, Albania), opposite Corcyra; Cicero jokes about the favourable 'Onchesmite' wind that sped him to Brundisium.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.2 §1 such a pretty little spondaic breeze blew us from Epirus --- the gentlest Onchesmite
Onchesmus was a harbour on the coast of Epirus; Cicero coins a mock-epic joke, calling the favourable wind from there an 'Onchesmite' and noting that the phrase scans as a spondaic (ending-in-spondees) line of verse.