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; Völcker, Mythol. des Jupet. Geschl. p.
Herc. Fur. 376. )
[L. S. ] 361).
[L. S. )
OE'NOE (Olvon). 1. The name given by An- O'ENOʻMAUS (Olvómaos), of Gadara, a cynic
toninus Liberalis (16) to a person commonly called philosopher, who flourished in the reign of Hadrian,
Gerana [GERANA).
or somewhat later, but before Porphyry. (Syncell
.
2. A sister of Epochus, from which the Attic p. 349, b. ; Suid. s. r. ) He was one of those
demous of Oenoe was believed to have derived its later cynics whose philosophy consisted not so much
name. (Pans. i. 33, in fin. )
in any definite system of doctrine, as in a free and
8. An Arcadian nymph, who is said to have unrestrained tone of thought and life. Thus the
been one of those that brought up the infant Zeus. emperor Julian charges him with sensuality and
(Paus. viii. 47. & 2. )
[L. S. ] profaneness ; and his sarcasms upon the old cynic
OENOMARCHÚS (Oivópapxos), of Andros, doctrines have led some to suppose, but without
one of the numerous pupils of Herodes Atticus, did reason, that he belonged to some other sect. (Ju-
Dot possess any great celebrity, and was fond of lian, Orat. vi
. p. 199, vii. p. 209, ed. Spanheim. )
the florid style of eloquence, which received the Suidas mentions, as his works, Tepi Kuviouou,
Dame of the Ionic Or Asiatic. (Philostr. Vid. Πολιτεία, Περί της καθ' “Ομηρον Φιλοσοφίας,
Soph. ii. 18. )
Περί Κράτητος και Διογένους και των λοιπών.
OENOʻMAUS (Olvóunos), a son of Ares and This list, however, does not include the work
Harpinna, the daughter of Asopus, and husband of which is best known to us, namely, his exposure
the Pleiad Sterope, by whom he became the father of the oracles, which is sometimes entitled Kata
of Hippodameia, was king of Pisa in Elis (Apollod. TÛ Xenotnplwr, but the proper title seems to have
iii. 10. 8 1 ; Paus. v. 10. 8 2, 22. § 5, vi. 21. 8 6). been rottwv papá, i. e. Detectio Praestigiatorum,
According to others he was a son of Ares and Considerable extracts from this work are preserved
VOL. IIL
с
Fet an infant, to have been
to the coast of Sicyon, to
- Polybus, and afterwards to
him (Schol ad Eur. Phoen.
as shown at Athens, where
(Paus. i. 28. $ 7, 30, in
[L. S. )
on), mother of Agathocles,
Ptolemy Philopator, and
famous mistress. Oenanthe
her children to the king,
sessed, until his death, the
e government. When,
2 young Epiphanes, the
gathocles and his party,
to the Thesmophorium
d Persephone), and here
e goddesses with super-
Irove away with threats
s who had come to con-
she was dragged from
rought naked on horse
delivered up, with the
cles, to the fury of the
were torn in pieces
3; Plut. Cloom 33;
251, e. ) (E. E]
One of the sons of
one of the eponymie
:. 2. )
ther of Agrius and
by whom he became
eager, and was tbus
He was king of
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OENOPION.
OEOBAZUS.
p. 110. )
by Eusebius, who tells us that Oenomaus was pro- became the father of Thalus, Euanthes, Melas
voked to write it in consequence of having been Salagus, Athamas, and Merope, Aerope or Haero
himself deceived by an oracle. (Euseb. Praep. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. m. 996 ; Paus. vii. 4. &
Evang. v. 18, foll. , vi. 7; Socrat. H. E. iv. 13 ; 6 ; Parthen. Erot. 20). Some writers call Oeno
Niceph. z. 36 ; Theodoret. Therap. p. 86, x. p. pion a son of Rhadamanthys by Ariadne, and a
141, a) Julian also speaks of tragedies by Oeno brother of Staphylus (Plut. Thes. 20); and Servius
maus (Orat. vii. p. 210).
(ud Aen. i. 539; comp. x. 763) also calls him the
2. An epigrammatic poet, the author of a single father of Orion. From Crete he emigrated with
distich upon Eros, inscribed on a drinking vessel. his sons to Chios, which Rhadamanthys had as.
There is nothing to determine whether or no he signed to him as his habitation (Paus. vii. 4. $ 6;
was the same person as the philosopher (Brunck, Diod. v. 79). While he was king of Chios, he
Anal. vol. ii. p. 402 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec, vol. iii. received a visit from the giant Orion, who for a
long time sued for the hand of Merope. Once
3. A tragic poet. (Diogenes, p. 1023. ) (P. S. ) | Orion being intoxicated violated Mempe, in conse
OENO'NE (Oivórn), a daughter of the river quence of which Oenopion blinded him and expelled
god Cebren, and the wife of Paris. (Apollod. iji. him from his island. Orion, however, went to
12. $ 6 ; Parthen. Erot. 4 ; Strab. xiii. p. 596 ; Lemnos, where Hephaestus gave to him Cedalion
comp. PARIS. )
[L. S. ) as a guide, or according to others stole a boy whom
OENOʻPIDES (Olvonions), a distinguished he carried on his shoulders, and who told him the
astronomer and mathematician, a native of Chios. | roads. Orion was afterwards cured of his blind-
Plato (Erastae, c. 1) mentions him in conjunction ness, and returned to Chios to take vengeance on
with Anaxagoras, from which it has been concluded Oenopion. But the latter was not to be found in
that he was a contemporary of the latter. It may Chios, for his friends had concealed him in the
have been so, but there is nothing else to confirm earth, so that Orion, unable to discover him, went
the conjecture. He is spoken of in connection with to Crete (Apollod. i. 4. & 3; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii.
Pythagoras and his followers, so that he seems to 34 ; Eratosth. Catast. 32 ; Eustath. ad Hom. p.
have been regarded as a Pythagorean. Oenopides 1623). The tomb of Oenopion continued to be
derived most of his astronomical knowledge from shown at Chios even in the days of Pausanias (vii.
the priests and astronomers of Egypt, with whom 5. $ 6 ; comp. Orion ; Völcker, Mythol. des Japet.
he lived for some time. Diodorus (i. 98) mentions Geschl. p. 112, &c. ).
(L. S. ]
in particular that he derived from this source his OENO'TROPAE (Olvot pótai), that is, the
knowledge of the obliquity of the ecliptic, the dis changers of or into wine, was the name of the three
covery of which he is said to have claiined (in the or four daughters of king Anius in Delos, because
treatise de Plac. Phil. ii. 12, ascribed to Plutarch). they had received from Dionysus the power of
Aelian (V. 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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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.