He was at the time of very
advanced
3.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
H.
u.
7) attributes to Oenopides the changing water into wine, and any thing else they
invention of the cycle of fifty-nine years for chose into corn and olives (Tzetz. . ad Lyc. 750).
bringing the lunar and solar years into accordance, When Agamemnon heard this, he wanted to carry
of which Censorinus (c. 19) makes Philolaus to them off by force from their father, that they might
have been the originator. The length of the solar provide for the army of the Greeks at Troy ; but
year was fixed by Oenopides at 365 days, and they implored Dionysus for assistance, and were
somewhat less than nine hours. (As Censorinus accordingly metamorphosed into doves. (Ov. Met.
expresses it, the fifty-ninth part of twenty-two xiii. 640 ; Serv. ad Aen. iii, 80. ) (L. S. )
days. ) Oenopides set up at Olympia a brazen OENO'TRUS (Oivwt pos), the youngest son
tablet containing an explanation of his cycle. He of Lycaon who emigrated with a colony from
had a notion that the milky-way was the original Arcadia to Italy, and called the district in which
path of the sun, from which he had been frightened he settled, after himself, Oenotria (Paus. viii. 3. §
into his present path by the spectacle of the banquet 2 ; Virg. Aen. i. 532, iii. 165, vii. 85 ; Strab. vi.
of Thyestes. (Achilles Tatius, Isag. in Arat. c. 24. ) p. 253, &c. ). According to Varro, he was a king
Proclus, in his commentary on Euclid, attributes to of the Sabines, and not a Pelasgian, and his brother
Oenopides the discovery of the twelfth and twenty: I was called Italus (Serv. ad Aen. I. 536). Accord-
third propositions of the first book of Euclid, and ing to Dionysius (i. 11, &c. ii. 1), Oenotrus was
the quadrature of the meniscus. Oenopides is also accompanied by his brother Peucetius, and landed
mentioned more than once by Sextus Empiricus. in the bay of Ausonia.
(L. S. )
(Hypot. ïïi. 4, adv. Math. p. 367. ) He had a theory OEOBA'ZUS (Oióbafos). 1. A Persian, who,
of his own about the rise of the Nile, which was when Dareius Hystaspis was on the point of march-
this, that in the summer the waters beneath the ing from Susa on his Scythian expedition, besought
earth are cold, in the winter warm ; a fact which him to leave behind with him one of his three sons,
he said was proved by the temperature of deep all of whom were serving in the army. Dareius
wells. So that in the winter the heat shut up in answered that, as Deobazus was a friend, and had
the earth carries off the greater part of the moisture, preferred so moderate a request, he would leave him
while there are no rains in Egypt. In the summer, all three. He then ordered them all to be put to
on the contrary, the moisture is no longer carried death. (Her. iv. 84 ; comp. vii. 38, 39; Senec, de
off in that way, so that there is enough to fill the Ira, iii. 16, 17. )
bed of the Nile and cause it to overflow. Diodorus 2. Father of Siromitres, who led the Paricanjans
(i. 41) objects to that theory, that other rivers of in the Greek expedition of Xerxes. (Her. vii. 68. )
Libya, which correspond in position and direction 3. A noble Persian, who, when the Greek fleet
to the Nile, are not so affected. (Fabric. Bibl. arrived in the Hellespont after the battle of Mycale
Graec. vol. i. p. 860 ; Ideler, Handbuch der Chrono (B. C. 479), fled from Cardia to Sestus, as the place
logie, vol. i. p. 302. )
[C. P. M. ] of all most strongly fortified. Sestus was besieged
OENOʻPION (Olvonlwr), a son of Dionysus by the Athenians under Xanthippus, and, on
and husband of the nymph Helice, by whom he the famine becoming unendurable, Deobazus, with
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ZOBAZUS.
19
OFELLA.
OGULNIA.
of Thalus, Euanthes, Melas,
ind Merope, Aerope or Haero
Rhod. iii. 996 ; Paus, fii. 4. 9
'0). Some writers call Oeno-
lamanthys by Ariadne, and a
(Plut. Thes. 20); and Serring
np. x. 763) also calls him the
om Crete he emigrated with
hich Rhadamanthys had 29-
labitation (Paus. vii. 4. $ 6;
he was king of Chios, he
the giant Orion, who for a
he hand of Merope. Once
! violated Merupe, in conse
on blinded him and expelled
Orion, however, went to
itus gave to him Cedalion
to others stole a boy whom
rs, and who told him the
rards cured of his blind-
nios to take vengeance on
I was not to be found in
1 concealed him in the
e to discover him, went
; Hygin. Poet. Astr. į
Eustath. ad Homm
lopion continued to be
days of Pausanias (viz
ker, Mythol. des Japea
(L. S. )
"pótes), that is, the
the name of the three
ius in Delos, because
nysus the power of
any thing else they
Tzetz. ad Lye. 750)
he wanted to carry
her, that they might
eeks at Troy ; bat
istance, and were
doves.
) (L. S. )
the youngest son
most of the Persians, made his escape from the jacket. And I advise those who have been twice
town ; but he fell into the hands of the Apsinthian humbled not to make fire necessary the third
Thracians, and was sacrificed by them to Pleistorus, time. ” (Appian, B. C. i. 88, 94, 101 ; Plut. Sull.
one of their gods (Her. ix. 115, 118, 119). (E. E. ) 29, 33; Liv. Epit. 88, 89; Vell. Pat. ii. 27, who
OEOCLUS (Oroklos), a son of Poseidon by erroneously says that Ofella had been praetor. )
Ascra, who in conjunction with the Aloadae, is The name of the centurion that put Ofella to death
said to have built the town of Ascra in Boeotia was L. Bellienus. He was afterwards brought to
(Paus. ix. 29. $ 1. )
trial for this murder by Julius Caesar and con-
OEO'LYCUS (Oió uros), a son of Theras of demned. (Ascon. in Tog. Cund. p. 92, ed. Orelli ;
Sparta, and brother of Aegeus, was honoured at Dion Cass. xxxvii. 10. ) The orator, who is cha-
Sparta with an heroum. (Herod. iv, 149 ; Paus. racterised by Cicero (Brut. 48) as contionilrus
jii 15. § 6. )
(L. S. ] aptior quam judiciis, is probably the same as the
OEO'NUS (Oiwvós), a son of Licynınius of subject of this article, though the name in Cicero
Midea in Argolis, was the first victor at Olympia, is corrupt.
in the foot-race. (Pind. Ol. xi. 76, &c. ; Apollod. OFELLUS. (OPELLA. ]
ii. 7. § 3; Paus. iii. 15. § 3. ) He is said to OFI'LIUS or OFEʻLLIUS. The name occurs
have been killed at Sparta by the sons of Hippo- in inscriptions in both forms ; but in writers we
coon, but was avenged by Heracles, whose kins- generally find Ofilius.
man he was, and was honoured with a monument 1. Ofilius CALAVIUS, a Campanian in the
near the temple of Heracles. (Paus. l. c. ) (L. S. ] time of the Samnite wars. [CALAVIUS, No. 3. )
OESALCES, brother of Gala, king of the Nu- 2. OFILLIUS ('Oplanos), as he is called by
midian tribe of the Massylians, whom he succeeded Appian (B. C. v. 128), a tribune of the soldiers in
on the throne, according to the Numidian law of the army of Octavian, B. C. 38.
inheritance.
He was at the time of very advanced 3. M. OFILIUS HILARUS, whose painless death
age, and died shortly after, leaving two sons, Ca- is recorded at length by Pliny. (H. N. vii. 53.
pusa and Lacumaces. (Liv. xxix. 29. ) [E. H. B. ] s. 54. )
OETOLINUS. [LINUs. ]
4. OFELLIUS ('Operos), a philosopher men-
OETOSYRUS (Oiróoupos), the name of a tioned by Arrian (Epict. iii. 22. § 27).
Scythian divinity whom Herodotus identifies with OFI'LIUS, A. , a Roman jurist, is named by
the Greek Apollo. (Herod. iv. 59. ) (L. S. ) Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. 844) Gaius Aulus
OE'TYLUS (Ofrukos), a son of Amphianax, Ofilius, but the praenomen Gaius appears to be
and grandson of Antimachus of Argos. The La- some blunder of a copyist. Ofilius was one of the
conian town of Oetylus was believed to have pupils of Servius Sulpicius, and the master of
received its name from him, and he there enjoyed Tubero, Capito and Labeo. He was a friend of
heroic honours. (Paus. iii. 25. 8 7. ) [L. S. ) Cicero, who, on one occasion, cites his opinion as
OFELLA, a man of sound sense and of a opposed to that of Trebatius (ad Fam. vii. 21,
straightforward character, whom Horace contrasts ad Att. xiii. 37). He was also a friend of the
with the Stoic quacks of his time. (Hor. Sat. ii. Dictator Caesar. Oblius belonged to the eques-
2. 3. ) The old editions of Horace have Ofellus, trian order, but he obtained a high reputation for
which Bentley proposed to change into Ofella, legal knowledge. “He wrote,” says Pomponius
remarking that Ofella and Ofellius were known (Dig. 1. tit. 2. 8. 2. § 44), “ many treatises on the
Roman names, but that Ofellus occurs nowhere Jus Civile," among which De Legibus vicesimae
else. The conjecture of Bentley is now confirmed (manumissionum), and De Jurisdictione. The
by manuscript authority.
fifth book of his Jus Partitum is cited (Dig. 32.
OFELLA, Q. LUCRETIUS, originally be- 3. 55),
and the sixteenth book of a work on
longed to the Marian party, but deserted to Sulla ; actions (33. tit. 9. s. 3. 8$ 5,8), and a treatise ad-
and althongh he had not hitherto distinguished dressed to Atticus (50. tit. 16. s. 234. 82), who is
himself in any way (Dion Cass. xxxiv. Fragm. probably T. Pomponius Atticus. Ofilius is often
134), Sulla appointed him to the command of the cited in the Digest. “Ofilius," says Pomponius,
army employed in the blockade of Praeneste, where "edictum praetoris primus diligenter composuit,"
the younger Marius had taken refuge in B. C. 82. which probably means an arrangement of the edictal
Praeneste was obliged to surrender in the course of law, like the later work of Julian, or it might be a
the year, and the younger Marius put an end to his commentary upon it Caesar had conceived a
own life. Relying on these services, Ofella be- design of arranging the Jus Civile, to which his
came a candidate for the consulship in the follow- connection with Ofilius may have contributed.
ing year, although he had not yet been either (Zimmern, Geschichte des Röm. Privatrechts; Puchta
quaestor or praetor, thus acting in defiance of Cursus, fic vol. i. p. 427 ; Grotins, Vit
. Juris
Sulla's law De Magistratibus. Sulla at first at- consult. )
[G. L. )
tempted to dissuade him from becoming a candi- OGO'A (Oya), the Carian name of Zeus at
date ; but as he persisted in his purpose, and Mysala, in whose temple a sea-wave was seen
entered the forum supported by a large party, from time to time. (Paus. viii. 10. § 3. ) Strabo
Sulla sent a centurion to kill him in the middle of(xiv. p. 659) calls the god of Mysala, in the Carian
the forum, and informed the people that he had dialect, Osogo.
[L. S. ]
commanded the execution of Ofella, because he OGU'LNIA GENS, plebeian, is most known
refused to obey his commands. After saying this, through one of its members being the proposer of
Sulla told them the following tale, which is pre the law, which opened the two great ecclesiastical
served by Appian :-“ The lice were very trouble corporations to the plebeians. The first and only
soine to a conntryman, as he was ploughing. Twice person in this gens who obtained the consulship is
he stopped his ploughing, and purged his jacket. IQ. Ogulnius Gallus, who was consul B. c. 269.
But he was still bitten ; and in order that he Gallus is the only cognomen of the Ogulnii: the
Inight not be hindered in his work, he burnt the others, who have no surname, are given below.
c 2
(Ov. Met
1
a colony from
district in which
(Paus viji 3. §
i. 85 ; Strak vi
- he was a king
and his brother
536). Accord
Oenotrus was
us, and landed
(LS. )
Persian, who,
oint of marche
tion, besonght
us three sons
ay. Dareizs
end, and had
id leave him
o be put to
; Senec, de
Paricaties
I. vii 68. )
reek Beet
of Mycale
the place
besieged
and,
us sit
OC
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20
OG YGUS.
OLEN.
COIN OF OGULNIA GENS.
The annexed coin belongs to this gens, but by was called after him Ogygia. In his reign the
whom it was struck is uncertain. The names on waters of lake Copais rose above its banks, and
the obverse, Q. OGVL. CAR. VER. , are those of inundated the whole valley of Boeotia This flood
triumvirs of the mint, and are probably abbrevia- is usually called after him the Ogygian. (Paus ix.
tions of Q. Ogulnius, Carvilius, and Verginius or 5. & 1 ; Apollon. Rhod. iii. 1177; Serv. ad Virg.
Virgilius.
Ed. vi. 41. ) The name of Ogyges is also con-
nected with Attic story, for in Attica too an
Ogygian fiood is mentioned, and he is described as
the father of the Attic hero Eleusis, and as the
father of Daeira, the daughter of Oceanus. (Paus.
i. 38. $ 7. ) In the Boeotian tradition he was
the father of Alalcomenia, Thelxinoea and Aulis
(Suid. s. u. Ipatidian ; Paus, ix. 33. $ 4. ) Poly-
bius (iv. l) and Strabo (vüi. p. 384) call Ogyges
the last king of Achaia, and some traditions even
described him as an Egyptian king. (Tzetz. ad
OGU'LNIUS. ], 2. Q. and Cn. OGULNII, Lyc. 1206. )
(L. S.
tribunes of the plebs, B. C. 300, proposed and car- OICLES or OICLEUS (Oiriñs, 'Oixieús ),
ried a law by which the number of the pontiffs was a son of Antiphates, grandson of Melampus and
increased from four to eight, and that of the augurs father of Amphiaraus, of Argos. (Hom. Od. xv.
from four to nine, and which enacted that four of 241, &c. ) Diodorus (iv. 32) on the other hand,
the pontiffs and five of the augurs should be taken calls him a son of Amphiaraus and Pausanias
from the ebs. (Liv. x. 6—9. ) Besides these (vi. 17. & 4), a son of Mantius, the brother of
eight pontiffs there was the pontifex maximus, who Antiphates. Oicles accompanied Heracles on his
is generally not included when the number of expedition against Laomedon of Troy, and was
pontiffs is spoken of. The pontifex maximus con- there slain in battle. (Apollod. ii. 6. § 4; Diod.
tinued to be a patrician down to B. c. 254, when iv. 32.
invention of the cycle of fifty-nine years for chose into corn and olives (Tzetz. . ad Lyc. 750).
bringing the lunar and solar years into accordance, When Agamemnon heard this, he wanted to carry
of which Censorinus (c. 19) makes Philolaus to them off by force from their father, that they might
have been the originator. The length of the solar provide for the army of the Greeks at Troy ; but
year was fixed by Oenopides at 365 days, and they implored Dionysus for assistance, and were
somewhat less than nine hours. (As Censorinus accordingly metamorphosed into doves. (Ov. Met.
expresses it, the fifty-ninth part of twenty-two xiii. 640 ; Serv. ad Aen. iii, 80. ) (L. S. )
days. ) Oenopides set up at Olympia a brazen OENO'TRUS (Oivwt pos), the youngest son
tablet containing an explanation of his cycle. He of Lycaon who emigrated with a colony from
had a notion that the milky-way was the original Arcadia to Italy, and called the district in which
path of the sun, from which he had been frightened he settled, after himself, Oenotria (Paus. viii. 3. §
into his present path by the spectacle of the banquet 2 ; Virg. Aen. i. 532, iii. 165, vii. 85 ; Strab. vi.
of Thyestes. (Achilles Tatius, Isag. in Arat. c. 24. ) p. 253, &c. ). According to Varro, he was a king
Proclus, in his commentary on Euclid, attributes to of the Sabines, and not a Pelasgian, and his brother
Oenopides the discovery of the twelfth and twenty: I was called Italus (Serv. ad Aen. I. 536). Accord-
third propositions of the first book of Euclid, and ing to Dionysius (i. 11, &c. ii. 1), Oenotrus was
the quadrature of the meniscus. Oenopides is also accompanied by his brother Peucetius, and landed
mentioned more than once by Sextus Empiricus. in the bay of Ausonia.
(L. S. )
(Hypot. ïïi. 4, adv. Math. p. 367. ) He had a theory OEOBA'ZUS (Oióbafos). 1. A Persian, who,
of his own about the rise of the Nile, which was when Dareius Hystaspis was on the point of march-
this, that in the summer the waters beneath the ing from Susa on his Scythian expedition, besought
earth are cold, in the winter warm ; a fact which him to leave behind with him one of his three sons,
he said was proved by the temperature of deep all of whom were serving in the army. Dareius
wells. So that in the winter the heat shut up in answered that, as Deobazus was a friend, and had
the earth carries off the greater part of the moisture, preferred so moderate a request, he would leave him
while there are no rains in Egypt. In the summer, all three. He then ordered them all to be put to
on the contrary, the moisture is no longer carried death. (Her. iv. 84 ; comp. vii. 38, 39; Senec, de
off in that way, so that there is enough to fill the Ira, iii. 16, 17. )
bed of the Nile and cause it to overflow. Diodorus 2. Father of Siromitres, who led the Paricanjans
(i. 41) objects to that theory, that other rivers of in the Greek expedition of Xerxes. (Her. vii. 68. )
Libya, which correspond in position and direction 3. A noble Persian, who, when the Greek fleet
to the Nile, are not so affected. (Fabric. Bibl. arrived in the Hellespont after the battle of Mycale
Graec. vol. i. p. 860 ; Ideler, Handbuch der Chrono (B. C. 479), fled from Cardia to Sestus, as the place
logie, vol. i. p. 302. )
[C. P. M. ] of all most strongly fortified. Sestus was besieged
OENOʻPION (Olvonlwr), a son of Dionysus by the Athenians under Xanthippus, and, on
and husband of the nymph Helice, by whom he the famine becoming unendurable, Deobazus, with
## p. 19 (#35) ##############################################
ZOBAZUS.
19
OFELLA.
OGULNIA.
of Thalus, Euanthes, Melas,
ind Merope, Aerope or Haero
Rhod. iii. 996 ; Paus, fii. 4. 9
'0). Some writers call Oeno-
lamanthys by Ariadne, and a
(Plut. Thes. 20); and Serring
np. x. 763) also calls him the
om Crete he emigrated with
hich Rhadamanthys had 29-
labitation (Paus. vii. 4. $ 6;
he was king of Chios, he
the giant Orion, who for a
he hand of Merope. Once
! violated Merupe, in conse
on blinded him and expelled
Orion, however, went to
itus gave to him Cedalion
to others stole a boy whom
rs, and who told him the
rards cured of his blind-
nios to take vengeance on
I was not to be found in
1 concealed him in the
e to discover him, went
; Hygin. Poet. Astr. į
Eustath. ad Homm
lopion continued to be
days of Pausanias (viz
ker, Mythol. des Japea
(L. S. )
"pótes), that is, the
the name of the three
ius in Delos, because
nysus the power of
any thing else they
Tzetz. ad Lye. 750)
he wanted to carry
her, that they might
eeks at Troy ; bat
istance, and were
doves.
) (L. S. )
the youngest son
most of the Persians, made his escape from the jacket. And I advise those who have been twice
town ; but he fell into the hands of the Apsinthian humbled not to make fire necessary the third
Thracians, and was sacrificed by them to Pleistorus, time. ” (Appian, B. C. i. 88, 94, 101 ; Plut. Sull.
one of their gods (Her. ix. 115, 118, 119). (E. E. ) 29, 33; Liv. Epit. 88, 89; Vell. Pat. ii. 27, who
OEOCLUS (Oroklos), a son of Poseidon by erroneously says that Ofella had been praetor. )
Ascra, who in conjunction with the Aloadae, is The name of the centurion that put Ofella to death
said to have built the town of Ascra in Boeotia was L. Bellienus. He was afterwards brought to
(Paus. ix. 29. $ 1. )
trial for this murder by Julius Caesar and con-
OEO'LYCUS (Oió uros), a son of Theras of demned. (Ascon. in Tog. Cund. p. 92, ed. Orelli ;
Sparta, and brother of Aegeus, was honoured at Dion Cass. xxxvii. 10. ) The orator, who is cha-
Sparta with an heroum. (Herod. iv, 149 ; Paus. racterised by Cicero (Brut. 48) as contionilrus
jii 15. § 6. )
(L. S. ] aptior quam judiciis, is probably the same as the
OEO'NUS (Oiwvós), a son of Licynınius of subject of this article, though the name in Cicero
Midea in Argolis, was the first victor at Olympia, is corrupt.
in the foot-race. (Pind. Ol. xi. 76, &c. ; Apollod. OFELLUS. (OPELLA. ]
ii. 7. § 3; Paus. iii. 15. § 3. ) He is said to OFI'LIUS or OFEʻLLIUS. The name occurs
have been killed at Sparta by the sons of Hippo- in inscriptions in both forms ; but in writers we
coon, but was avenged by Heracles, whose kins- generally find Ofilius.
man he was, and was honoured with a monument 1. Ofilius CALAVIUS, a Campanian in the
near the temple of Heracles. (Paus. l. c. ) (L. S. ] time of the Samnite wars. [CALAVIUS, No. 3. )
OESALCES, brother of Gala, king of the Nu- 2. OFILLIUS ('Oplanos), as he is called by
midian tribe of the Massylians, whom he succeeded Appian (B. C. v. 128), a tribune of the soldiers in
on the throne, according to the Numidian law of the army of Octavian, B. C. 38.
inheritance.
He was at the time of very advanced 3. M. OFILIUS HILARUS, whose painless death
age, and died shortly after, leaving two sons, Ca- is recorded at length by Pliny. (H. N. vii. 53.
pusa and Lacumaces. (Liv. xxix. 29. ) [E. H. B. ] s. 54. )
OETOLINUS. [LINUs. ]
4. OFELLIUS ('Operos), a philosopher men-
OETOSYRUS (Oiróoupos), the name of a tioned by Arrian (Epict. iii. 22. § 27).
Scythian divinity whom Herodotus identifies with OFI'LIUS, A. , a Roman jurist, is named by
the Greek Apollo. (Herod. iv. 59. ) (L. S. ) Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. 844) Gaius Aulus
OE'TYLUS (Ofrukos), a son of Amphianax, Ofilius, but the praenomen Gaius appears to be
and grandson of Antimachus of Argos. The La- some blunder of a copyist. Ofilius was one of the
conian town of Oetylus was believed to have pupils of Servius Sulpicius, and the master of
received its name from him, and he there enjoyed Tubero, Capito and Labeo. He was a friend of
heroic honours. (Paus. iii. 25. 8 7. ) [L. S. ) Cicero, who, on one occasion, cites his opinion as
OFELLA, a man of sound sense and of a opposed to that of Trebatius (ad Fam. vii. 21,
straightforward character, whom Horace contrasts ad Att. xiii. 37). He was also a friend of the
with the Stoic quacks of his time. (Hor. Sat. ii. Dictator Caesar. Oblius belonged to the eques-
2. 3. ) The old editions of Horace have Ofellus, trian order, but he obtained a high reputation for
which Bentley proposed to change into Ofella, legal knowledge. “He wrote,” says Pomponius
remarking that Ofella and Ofellius were known (Dig. 1. tit. 2. 8. 2. § 44), “ many treatises on the
Roman names, but that Ofellus occurs nowhere Jus Civile," among which De Legibus vicesimae
else. The conjecture of Bentley is now confirmed (manumissionum), and De Jurisdictione. The
by manuscript authority.
fifth book of his Jus Partitum is cited (Dig. 32.
OFELLA, Q. LUCRETIUS, originally be- 3. 55),
and the sixteenth book of a work on
longed to the Marian party, but deserted to Sulla ; actions (33. tit. 9. s. 3. 8$ 5,8), and a treatise ad-
and althongh he had not hitherto distinguished dressed to Atticus (50. tit. 16. s. 234. 82), who is
himself in any way (Dion Cass. xxxiv. Fragm. probably T. Pomponius Atticus. Ofilius is often
134), Sulla appointed him to the command of the cited in the Digest. “Ofilius," says Pomponius,
army employed in the blockade of Praeneste, where "edictum praetoris primus diligenter composuit,"
the younger Marius had taken refuge in B. C. 82. which probably means an arrangement of the edictal
Praeneste was obliged to surrender in the course of law, like the later work of Julian, or it might be a
the year, and the younger Marius put an end to his commentary upon it Caesar had conceived a
own life. Relying on these services, Ofella be- design of arranging the Jus Civile, to which his
came a candidate for the consulship in the follow- connection with Ofilius may have contributed.
ing year, although he had not yet been either (Zimmern, Geschichte des Röm. Privatrechts; Puchta
quaestor or praetor, thus acting in defiance of Cursus, fic vol. i. p. 427 ; Grotins, Vit
. Juris
Sulla's law De Magistratibus. Sulla at first at- consult. )
[G. L. )
tempted to dissuade him from becoming a candi- OGO'A (Oya), the Carian name of Zeus at
date ; but as he persisted in his purpose, and Mysala, in whose temple a sea-wave was seen
entered the forum supported by a large party, from time to time. (Paus. viii. 10. § 3. ) Strabo
Sulla sent a centurion to kill him in the middle of(xiv. p. 659) calls the god of Mysala, in the Carian
the forum, and informed the people that he had dialect, Osogo.
[L. S. ]
commanded the execution of Ofella, because he OGU'LNIA GENS, plebeian, is most known
refused to obey his commands. After saying this, through one of its members being the proposer of
Sulla told them the following tale, which is pre the law, which opened the two great ecclesiastical
served by Appian :-“ The lice were very trouble corporations to the plebeians. The first and only
soine to a conntryman, as he was ploughing. Twice person in this gens who obtained the consulship is
he stopped his ploughing, and purged his jacket. IQ. Ogulnius Gallus, who was consul B. c. 269.
But he was still bitten ; and in order that he Gallus is the only cognomen of the Ogulnii: the
Inight not be hindered in his work, he burnt the others, who have no surname, are given below.
c 2
(Ov. Met
1
a colony from
district in which
(Paus viji 3. §
i. 85 ; Strak vi
- he was a king
and his brother
536). Accord
Oenotrus was
us, and landed
(LS. )
Persian, who,
oint of marche
tion, besonght
us three sons
ay. Dareizs
end, and had
id leave him
o be put to
; Senec, de
Paricaties
I. vii 68. )
reek Beet
of Mycale
the place
besieged
and,
us sit
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OG YGUS.
OLEN.
COIN OF OGULNIA GENS.
The annexed coin belongs to this gens, but by was called after him Ogygia. In his reign the
whom it was struck is uncertain. The names on waters of lake Copais rose above its banks, and
the obverse, Q. OGVL. CAR. VER. , are those of inundated the whole valley of Boeotia This flood
triumvirs of the mint, and are probably abbrevia- is usually called after him the Ogygian. (Paus ix.
tions of Q. Ogulnius, Carvilius, and Verginius or 5. & 1 ; Apollon. Rhod. iii. 1177; Serv. ad Virg.
Virgilius.
Ed. vi. 41. ) The name of Ogyges is also con-
nected with Attic story, for in Attica too an
Ogygian fiood is mentioned, and he is described as
the father of the Attic hero Eleusis, and as the
father of Daeira, the daughter of Oceanus. (Paus.
i. 38. $ 7. ) In the Boeotian tradition he was
the father of Alalcomenia, Thelxinoea and Aulis
(Suid. s. u. Ipatidian ; Paus, ix. 33. $ 4. ) Poly-
bius (iv. l) and Strabo (vüi. p. 384) call Ogyges
the last king of Achaia, and some traditions even
described him as an Egyptian king. (Tzetz. ad
OGU'LNIUS. ], 2. Q. and Cn. OGULNII, Lyc. 1206. )
(L. S.
tribunes of the plebs, B. C. 300, proposed and car- OICLES or OICLEUS (Oiriñs, 'Oixieús ),
ried a law by which the number of the pontiffs was a son of Antiphates, grandson of Melampus and
increased from four to eight, and that of the augurs father of Amphiaraus, of Argos. (Hom. Od. xv.
from four to nine, and which enacted that four of 241, &c. ) Diodorus (iv. 32) on the other hand,
the pontiffs and five of the augurs should be taken calls him a son of Amphiaraus and Pausanias
from the ebs. (Liv. x. 6—9. ) Besides these (vi. 17. & 4), a son of Mantius, the brother of
eight pontiffs there was the pontifex maximus, who Antiphates. Oicles accompanied Heracles on his
is generally not included when the number of expedition against Laomedon of Troy, and was
pontiffs is spoken of. The pontifex maximus con- there slain in battle. (Apollod. ii. 6. § 4; Diod.
tinued to be a patrician down to B. c. 254, when iv. 32.
