116, 130, 136 ; | these they
afterwards
restored to him.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
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. ) According to other traditions he returned
Tib. Coruncanius was the first plebeian who was home from the expedition, and dwelt in Arcadia,
invested with this dignity.
where he was visited by his grandson Alemaeon,
In B. C. 296 Q. and Cn. Ogulnii were curule and where in later times his tomb was shown.
aediles. They prosecuted several persons for (Apollod. iii. 7. $ 5; Paus. viii. 36. $ 4. ) (L. S. )
violating the usury laws ; and with the money OILEUS (Oğleús. ) 1. A Trojan, charioteer
accruing from the fines inflicted in consequence of Bianor, was slain by Agamemnon. (Hom. N.
they executed many public works (Liv. x. 23). xi. 93. )
The name of Cn. Ogulnius does not occur again 2. A son of Hodoedocus and Laonome, grandson
after this year
of Cynus, and great-grandson of Opus, was a king
In B. c. 294 Q. Ogulnius was sent at the head of the Locrians, and married to Eriopis, by whom
of an embassy to Epidaurus, in order to fetch Aescu. he became the father of Ajax, who is hence called
lapius to Rome, that the plague might be stayed Oilides or Oïliades. Oīleus was alsn the father of
which had been raging in the city for more than Medon by Rhene. (Hom. Il. ii. 527, 725, rii.
two years. The legend relates that, upon the 697, 712; Propert. ir. 1. 117. ) He is also men-
arrival of the ambassadors at Epidaurus, the god in tioned among the Argonauts. (Apollod. v. 10. $ 8;
the form of a gigantic serpent issued from the sanc- Apollon. Rhod. i. 74 ; Orph. Argon. 191. ) (LS. )
tuary, and settled in the cabin of Q. Ogulnius. O'LBIADES ('0x6ıádns), the painter of a
(Val. Max. i. 8 & 2; Aur. Vict. de Vir. IV. 22 ; picture in the senate-house of the Five Hundred,
Liv. Epit. 1]; Oros. iii. 22; Ov. Met. xv. 622, &c. ) in the Cerameicus, at Athens, representing Calip
In B. c. 273 Q. Ogulnius was again employed pus, the commander of the army which repulsed
on an embassy, being one of the three ambassadors the invading Gauls under Brennus, at Thermopylae,
sent by the senate to Ptolemy Philadelphus, who B. C. 279. (Paus. i. 3. § 4. s. 5. ) (P. S. )
had sought the friendship and alliance of the OLEN ('nunv), a mythical personage, who is
Romans in consequence of their conquest of represented as the earliest Greek lyric poet, and
Pyrrhus. The ambassadors were received with the first author of sacred hymns in hexameter
great distinction at the Egyptian court, and loaded He is closely connected with the worship
with presents. These they were obliged to accept ; of Apollo, of whom, in one legend, he was made
but the golden crowns which had been given them, the prophet. His connection with Apollo is also
they placed on the heads of the king's statues ; and marked by the statement of the Delphian poetess
the other presents they deposited in the treasury Boeo, who represents him as a Hyperborean, and
immediately upon their arrival at Rome, but the one of the establishers of oracles; but the more
senate restored them to them. (Val. Max. iv. 3. common story made him a native of Lycia. In
$9; Justin, xviii. 3 ; Dion Cass. Fragm. 147, either case, his coming from the extreme part of
with the note of Fabricius. )
the Pelasgian world to Delos intimates the distant
3. M. OGULNIUS was sent into Etruria with origin of the Ionian worship of A pollo, to which,
P. Aquillius in B. c. 210, in order to purchase and not to the Dorian, Olen properly belongs.
corn to be sent to Tarentum. (Liv. xxvii. 3. ) His name, according to Welcker (Europa und
4. M. OGULNIUS, tribune of the soldiers in the Kadmos, p. 35), signifies simply the flute-player.
second legion, fell in battle against the Boii, B. C. Of the ancient hymns, which went under his
196. (Liv, xxxiii. 36. )
name, Pausanias mentions those to Here, to
OGY'GUS or OGY'G ES ('ngrúyns), is some Achaeïa, and to Eileithyia ; the last was in cele
tinies called a Boeotian autochthon, and sometimes bration of the birth of Apollo and Artemis
a son of Boeotus, and king of the Hectenes, and (Herod. iv. 35; Paus. i. 18. & 5, ij. 13. $ 3, v. 7.
the first ruler of the territory of Thebes, which $ 8, ix. 27. $ 2, x. 7. & 8; Callim. Hymn. in Dei.
verse.
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OLEN.
21
OLOPHERNES.
OLY BRIUS.
chim Ogygia. In his reign the
Copais rose above its banks, and
whole valley of Boeotia This flood
after him the Ogygian. (Paus. iz
n. Rhod. iii. 1177, Serv. ad Virg.
The name of Ogyges is also con-
ttic story, for in Attica too an
mentioned, and he is described as
ne Attic hero Eleusis, and as the
the daughter of Oceanus. (Pans.
the Boeotian tradition he was
alcomenia, Thelxinoea and Aulis
dian; Paus. ix. 33. $ 4. ) Poly-
Strabo (viii. p. 384) call Ogyges
chaia, and some traditions even
an Egyptian king. (Tzetz. ad
(L. S. ]
DICLEUS (Oϊκλής, 'Οίκλεύς),
ces, grandson of Melampus and
raus, of Argos. (Hom. Od. IV.
rus (iv. 32) on the other hand,
of Amphiaraus, and Pausanias
n of Mantius, the brother of
s accompanied Heracles on his
Laomedon of Troy, and was
le. (Apollod. ii. 6. § 4; Diod.
to other traditions he returned
edition, and dwelt in Arcadia,
d by his grandson Alcmaeon,
times his tomb was shown.
Paus. vii. 36. & 4. ) (L. S. ]
304 ; Creuzer, Symbolik, vol. ii. pp.
116, 130, 136 ; | these they afterwards restored to him. We read
Klaasen, in Ersch and Gruber's Encyklopädie; also that, when his affairs were on the decline, and
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 134. ) [P. S. ] he became alarmed lest his soldiers should rutiny,
OLE'NNIUS, one of the chief centurions (e if their arrears remained unpaid, he plundered a
primipilaribus), was placed about A. D. 28 over very ancient temple of Zeus, to which great sanc-
the Frisii, whom Drusus had subdued. (Tac. Ann. tity was attached, to enable him to satisfy their
iv. 72. )
demands. (Diod. Ed. 3, Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p.
OʻLENUS. ("Hevos. ) 1. A son of Hephaes- 588, &c. ; Phot. I. c. ; Polyb. xxxii. 20; App. Syr.
tus, and father of the nymphs Aege and He-47; Liv. Epit. xlvii. ; Just. xxxv. 1; Athen. x. p.
lice, who brought up Zeus, and from whom the 440, b; Dalechamp and Casaub. ad loc. ; Ael. V. H.
town of Olenus in Aetolia was believed to have ii. 41; see above, Vol. I. p. 284. ) [E. E. )
derived its name. (Hygin. Poct. Astr. 13; Steph. O'LORUS or O'ROLUS (OXopos, Oporos) 1.
Byz. s. v. )
A King of Thrace, whose daughter Hegesipyla,
2. A son of Zeus and the Danaid Anaxithea, was married to Miltiades (Herod. vi. 39, 41;
from whom the town of Olenus in Achaia derived Marcellin. Vit. Thuc. )
its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. ; Strab. viii. p. 386. ) 2. Apparently grandson of the above, and son
3. A person living on Mount Ida, who wanted of Hegesipyla, was probably the offspring of a
to take upon himself the punishment which his second marriage contracted by her after the death
wife had deserved by her pride of her beauty, and of Miltiades. This Olorus was the father of Thu-
was metamorphosed along with her into stone. cydides, the historian (Thuc. iv. 104; Marcellin.
(Ov. Met. x. 68, &c. )
[L. S. ] Vit
. Thuc. ; Suidas, s. v. Boukvíðns). [E. E. ]
T. O'LLIUS, the father of Poppaea Sabina, was O'LTHACUS (OABakós), a chief of the Scy-
put to death at the latter end of the reign of thian tribe of the Dandarians, who served in the
Tiberius on account of his intimacy with Sejanus. army of Mithridates the Great, and enjoyed a high
(Tac. Ann. xii. 45. )
place in the favour of that prince, but subsequently
OLOPHERNES or OROPHENES ('Oro deserted to the Romans. This was, however, ac-
pépins, 'Opopépons, 'oppopépvns). , 1. Son of cording to Plutarch, a mere feint, for the purpose
Ariamnes I. , brother of Ariarathes I. , and father of obtaining access to Lucullus, and thus effecting
of Ariarathes II. , kings of Cappadocia. He was his assassination ; but being accidentally foiled in
much beloved by his brother, who advanced him this project, he again returned to the camp of
to the highest posts, and sent him to aid Ar- Mithridates. (Plut. Lucull. 16. ) Appian, who
taxerxes III. (Ochus) in his subjugation of Egypt, also relates the same story (Mithr. 79), writes the
B. C. 350. From this expedition Olophernes name Olcabas.
[E. H. B. ]
returned home, loaded by the Persian king with OLY'BRIUS, ANI'CIUS ('Olupos), Roman
great rewards for his services, and died in his emperor in A. D. 472, was a descendant of the
native land. His brother Ariarathes adopted his ancient and noble family of the Anicians. Down
elder son of the same name. He left also a younger to 455 he lived in Rome, but left it after its sack
son, named Aryses or Arysis. (Diod. Ed. 3; Phot by Genseric and the accession of Avitus, and went
Bibl. 244. )
to Constantinople. In 464, he was made consul;
2. One of the two supposititious sons whom and in the same year, or some time previously,
Antiochis at first imposed upon her husband, married Placidia, the daughter of the emperor Va-
Ariarathes IV. , king of Cappadocia. On the lentinian III. , the same princess who had been a
birth, however, of a real son, named Mithridates captive of Genseric. It appears that Olybrius
(afterwards Ariarathes V. ), Olophernes, that he stood on very intimate terms with that king of the
might not set up pretensions to the throne, was Vandals, who was active in helping him to the im-
sent away into Ionia, where he does not appear to perial crown of Italy. In 472, during the troubles
have improved his morals. When Ariarathes V. occasioned by the dissensions between the Western
refused to marry the sister of Demetrius Soter, the emperor Anthemius and the powerful patrician
latter supported the claims of Olophernes to the Ricimer, Olybrius was sent to Italy by Zeno
crown of Cappadocia. Olophernes, however, en under the pretext of assisting Anthemius; but his
tered into a conspiracy with the people of Antioch real motive was to seize the supreme power, a scheme
to dethrone Demetrius, who, having discovered the in which he was openly assisted by Genseric, and
design, threw him into chains, but spared his life secretly by the emperor Zeno, who, it appears,
that he might still keep Ariarathes in alarm with stood in fear of Olybrius on account of his con-
his pretensions. In B. c. 157, when Ariarathes nections with the king of the Vandals. Instead,
had been deposed, and had fled to Rome, Olo- therefore, of promoting the interest of Anthemius,
phernes sent thither two unscrupulous ambassadors he entered into negotiations with Ricimer, and ere
(Timotheus and Diogenes) to join the emissaries long he was proclaimed emperor by a strong fac
of Demetrius in opposing his (so called) brother. tion, with the connivance of Ricimer, to whom
According to Appian the Romans decided that the the imperial power was of more value than the
two claimants should share the throne between imperial title. Anthemius, however, was still in
them. We are told, however, that Olophernes did Rome, and enjoyed popularity. When Ricimer
not hold the kingdom long, and that his reign was came to attack him, Anthemius, supported by
signalized by a departure from the more simple Gothic auxiliaries under Gelimer, made a stont
customs of his ancestors, and by the introduction resistance, till at last the besieger gained the city
of systematic debauchery, like that of the Ionians. in consequence of his victory at the bridge of
To supply his lavish extravagance, he oppressed Hadrian. Rome was once more plundered, and
and pillaged his subjects, putting many to death, Anthemius was murdered by order of Ricimer
and confiscating their property. Four hundred (11th July, 472). Olybrius was now recognised as
talents he deposited with the citizens of Priene, emperor without any opposition, and could exercise
2 a resource in case of a reverse of fortune, and his power free from any control, since immediately
c3
1. A Trojan, charioteer
- by Agamemnon. (Hom. L
Cocus and Laonome, grandson
randson of Opus, was a king
married to Eriopis, by whom
f Ajax, who is hence called
Dileus was also the father of
Tom. II. ii. 527, 725, xiii.
1. 117. ) He is also mea-
mauts. (Apollod. v. 10. 88;
Orph. Argon. 191. ) [L. S. ]
áöns), the painter of a
use of the Five Hundred,
thens, representing Calip-
the army which repulsed
Brennus, at Thermopylae,
4. s. 5. ) [P. S. ]
thical personage, who is
st Greek lyric poet, and
hymns in hexameter
ected with the worship
elegend, he was made
con with Apollo is also
of the
Delphian poetess
as a Hyperborean, and
racles ; but the more
native of Lycia. In
the extreme part of
intimates the distant
of Apollo, to which,
en properly belongs.
Jeker (Europa und
ply, the Aute-player.
h went under his
Chose to
8
Here, to
e last was in cele
llo and Artemis
5, i. 13. § 3, . 7.
Jim. Hymn. in Del
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22
OLYMPIAS.
OLYMPIAS.
after this catastrophe, Ricimer was attacked by a that deed in the open manner asserted by some
violent distem per which carried him off a few weeks writers. (Plut. Alex. 2, 9, 10; Justin. ir. 5, 7
afterwards. The only act of Olybrius during his xi. 11; Athen.
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. ) According to other traditions he returned
Tib. Coruncanius was the first plebeian who was home from the expedition, and dwelt in Arcadia,
invested with this dignity.
where he was visited by his grandson Alemaeon,
In B. C. 296 Q. and Cn. Ogulnii were curule and where in later times his tomb was shown.
aediles. They prosecuted several persons for (Apollod. iii. 7. $ 5; Paus. viii. 36. $ 4. ) (L. S. )
violating the usury laws ; and with the money OILEUS (Oğleús. ) 1. A Trojan, charioteer
accruing from the fines inflicted in consequence of Bianor, was slain by Agamemnon. (Hom. N.
they executed many public works (Liv. x. 23). xi. 93. )
The name of Cn. Ogulnius does not occur again 2. A son of Hodoedocus and Laonome, grandson
after this year
of Cynus, and great-grandson of Opus, was a king
In B. c. 294 Q. Ogulnius was sent at the head of the Locrians, and married to Eriopis, by whom
of an embassy to Epidaurus, in order to fetch Aescu. he became the father of Ajax, who is hence called
lapius to Rome, that the plague might be stayed Oilides or Oïliades. Oīleus was alsn the father of
which had been raging in the city for more than Medon by Rhene. (Hom. Il. ii. 527, 725, rii.
two years. The legend relates that, upon the 697, 712; Propert. ir. 1. 117. ) He is also men-
arrival of the ambassadors at Epidaurus, the god in tioned among the Argonauts. (Apollod. v. 10. $ 8;
the form of a gigantic serpent issued from the sanc- Apollon. Rhod. i. 74 ; Orph. Argon. 191. ) (LS. )
tuary, and settled in the cabin of Q. Ogulnius. O'LBIADES ('0x6ıádns), the painter of a
(Val. Max. i. 8 & 2; Aur. Vict. de Vir. IV. 22 ; picture in the senate-house of the Five Hundred,
Liv. Epit. 1]; Oros. iii. 22; Ov. Met. xv. 622, &c. ) in the Cerameicus, at Athens, representing Calip
In B. c. 273 Q. Ogulnius was again employed pus, the commander of the army which repulsed
on an embassy, being one of the three ambassadors the invading Gauls under Brennus, at Thermopylae,
sent by the senate to Ptolemy Philadelphus, who B. C. 279. (Paus. i. 3. § 4. s. 5. ) (P. S. )
had sought the friendship and alliance of the OLEN ('nunv), a mythical personage, who is
Romans in consequence of their conquest of represented as the earliest Greek lyric poet, and
Pyrrhus. The ambassadors were received with the first author of sacred hymns in hexameter
great distinction at the Egyptian court, and loaded He is closely connected with the worship
with presents. These they were obliged to accept ; of Apollo, of whom, in one legend, he was made
but the golden crowns which had been given them, the prophet. His connection with Apollo is also
they placed on the heads of the king's statues ; and marked by the statement of the Delphian poetess
the other presents they deposited in the treasury Boeo, who represents him as a Hyperborean, and
immediately upon their arrival at Rome, but the one of the establishers of oracles; but the more
senate restored them to them. (Val. Max. iv. 3. common story made him a native of Lycia. In
$9; Justin, xviii. 3 ; Dion Cass. Fragm. 147, either case, his coming from the extreme part of
with the note of Fabricius. )
the Pelasgian world to Delos intimates the distant
3. M. OGULNIUS was sent into Etruria with origin of the Ionian worship of A pollo, to which,
P. Aquillius in B. c. 210, in order to purchase and not to the Dorian, Olen properly belongs.
corn to be sent to Tarentum. (Liv. xxvii. 3. ) His name, according to Welcker (Europa und
4. M. OGULNIUS, tribune of the soldiers in the Kadmos, p. 35), signifies simply the flute-player.
second legion, fell in battle against the Boii, B. C. Of the ancient hymns, which went under his
196. (Liv, xxxiii. 36. )
name, Pausanias mentions those to Here, to
OGY'GUS or OGY'G ES ('ngrúyns), is some Achaeïa, and to Eileithyia ; the last was in cele
tinies called a Boeotian autochthon, and sometimes bration of the birth of Apollo and Artemis
a son of Boeotus, and king of the Hectenes, and (Herod. iv. 35; Paus. i. 18. & 5, ij. 13. $ 3, v. 7.
the first ruler of the territory of Thebes, which $ 8, ix. 27. $ 2, x. 7. & 8; Callim. Hymn. in Dei.
verse.
## p. 21 (#37) ##############################################
OLEN.
21
OLOPHERNES.
OLY BRIUS.
chim Ogygia. In his reign the
Copais rose above its banks, and
whole valley of Boeotia This flood
after him the Ogygian. (Paus. iz
n. Rhod. iii. 1177, Serv. ad Virg.
The name of Ogyges is also con-
ttic story, for in Attica too an
mentioned, and he is described as
ne Attic hero Eleusis, and as the
the daughter of Oceanus. (Pans.
the Boeotian tradition he was
alcomenia, Thelxinoea and Aulis
dian; Paus. ix. 33. $ 4. ) Poly-
Strabo (viii. p. 384) call Ogyges
chaia, and some traditions even
an Egyptian king. (Tzetz. ad
(L. S. ]
DICLEUS (Oϊκλής, 'Οίκλεύς),
ces, grandson of Melampus and
raus, of Argos. (Hom. Od. IV.
rus (iv. 32) on the other hand,
of Amphiaraus, and Pausanias
n of Mantius, the brother of
s accompanied Heracles on his
Laomedon of Troy, and was
le. (Apollod. ii. 6. § 4; Diod.
to other traditions he returned
edition, and dwelt in Arcadia,
d by his grandson Alcmaeon,
times his tomb was shown.
Paus. vii. 36. & 4. ) (L. S. ]
304 ; Creuzer, Symbolik, vol. ii. pp.
116, 130, 136 ; | these they afterwards restored to him. We read
Klaasen, in Ersch and Gruber's Encyklopädie; also that, when his affairs were on the decline, and
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 134. ) [P. S. ] he became alarmed lest his soldiers should rutiny,
OLE'NNIUS, one of the chief centurions (e if their arrears remained unpaid, he plundered a
primipilaribus), was placed about A. D. 28 over very ancient temple of Zeus, to which great sanc-
the Frisii, whom Drusus had subdued. (Tac. Ann. tity was attached, to enable him to satisfy their
iv. 72. )
demands. (Diod. Ed. 3, Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p.
OʻLENUS. ("Hevos. ) 1. A son of Hephaes- 588, &c. ; Phot. I. c. ; Polyb. xxxii. 20; App. Syr.
tus, and father of the nymphs Aege and He-47; Liv. Epit. xlvii. ; Just. xxxv. 1; Athen. x. p.
lice, who brought up Zeus, and from whom the 440, b; Dalechamp and Casaub. ad loc. ; Ael. V. H.
town of Olenus in Aetolia was believed to have ii. 41; see above, Vol. I. p. 284. ) [E. E. )
derived its name. (Hygin. Poct. Astr. 13; Steph. O'LORUS or O'ROLUS (OXopos, Oporos) 1.
Byz. s. v. )
A King of Thrace, whose daughter Hegesipyla,
2. A son of Zeus and the Danaid Anaxithea, was married to Miltiades (Herod. vi. 39, 41;
from whom the town of Olenus in Achaia derived Marcellin. Vit. Thuc. )
its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. ; Strab. viii. p. 386. ) 2. Apparently grandson of the above, and son
3. A person living on Mount Ida, who wanted of Hegesipyla, was probably the offspring of a
to take upon himself the punishment which his second marriage contracted by her after the death
wife had deserved by her pride of her beauty, and of Miltiades. This Olorus was the father of Thu-
was metamorphosed along with her into stone. cydides, the historian (Thuc. iv. 104; Marcellin.
(Ov. Met. x. 68, &c. )
[L. S. ] Vit
. Thuc. ; Suidas, s. v. Boukvíðns). [E. E. ]
T. O'LLIUS, the father of Poppaea Sabina, was O'LTHACUS (OABakós), a chief of the Scy-
put to death at the latter end of the reign of thian tribe of the Dandarians, who served in the
Tiberius on account of his intimacy with Sejanus. army of Mithridates the Great, and enjoyed a high
(Tac. Ann. xii. 45. )
place in the favour of that prince, but subsequently
OLOPHERNES or OROPHENES ('Oro deserted to the Romans. This was, however, ac-
pépins, 'Opopépons, 'oppopépvns). , 1. Son of cording to Plutarch, a mere feint, for the purpose
Ariamnes I. , brother of Ariarathes I. , and father of obtaining access to Lucullus, and thus effecting
of Ariarathes II. , kings of Cappadocia. He was his assassination ; but being accidentally foiled in
much beloved by his brother, who advanced him this project, he again returned to the camp of
to the highest posts, and sent him to aid Ar- Mithridates. (Plut. Lucull. 16. ) Appian, who
taxerxes III. (Ochus) in his subjugation of Egypt, also relates the same story (Mithr. 79), writes the
B. C. 350. From this expedition Olophernes name Olcabas.
[E. H. B. ]
returned home, loaded by the Persian king with OLY'BRIUS, ANI'CIUS ('Olupos), Roman
great rewards for his services, and died in his emperor in A. D. 472, was a descendant of the
native land. His brother Ariarathes adopted his ancient and noble family of the Anicians. Down
elder son of the same name. He left also a younger to 455 he lived in Rome, but left it after its sack
son, named Aryses or Arysis. (Diod. Ed. 3; Phot by Genseric and the accession of Avitus, and went
Bibl. 244. )
to Constantinople. In 464, he was made consul;
2. One of the two supposititious sons whom and in the same year, or some time previously,
Antiochis at first imposed upon her husband, married Placidia, the daughter of the emperor Va-
Ariarathes IV. , king of Cappadocia. On the lentinian III. , the same princess who had been a
birth, however, of a real son, named Mithridates captive of Genseric. It appears that Olybrius
(afterwards Ariarathes V. ), Olophernes, that he stood on very intimate terms with that king of the
might not set up pretensions to the throne, was Vandals, who was active in helping him to the im-
sent away into Ionia, where he does not appear to perial crown of Italy. In 472, during the troubles
have improved his morals. When Ariarathes V. occasioned by the dissensions between the Western
refused to marry the sister of Demetrius Soter, the emperor Anthemius and the powerful patrician
latter supported the claims of Olophernes to the Ricimer, Olybrius was sent to Italy by Zeno
crown of Cappadocia. Olophernes, however, en under the pretext of assisting Anthemius; but his
tered into a conspiracy with the people of Antioch real motive was to seize the supreme power, a scheme
to dethrone Demetrius, who, having discovered the in which he was openly assisted by Genseric, and
design, threw him into chains, but spared his life secretly by the emperor Zeno, who, it appears,
that he might still keep Ariarathes in alarm with stood in fear of Olybrius on account of his con-
his pretensions. In B. c. 157, when Ariarathes nections with the king of the Vandals. Instead,
had been deposed, and had fled to Rome, Olo- therefore, of promoting the interest of Anthemius,
phernes sent thither two unscrupulous ambassadors he entered into negotiations with Ricimer, and ere
(Timotheus and Diogenes) to join the emissaries long he was proclaimed emperor by a strong fac
of Demetrius in opposing his (so called) brother. tion, with the connivance of Ricimer, to whom
According to Appian the Romans decided that the the imperial power was of more value than the
two claimants should share the throne between imperial title. Anthemius, however, was still in
them. We are told, however, that Olophernes did Rome, and enjoyed popularity. When Ricimer
not hold the kingdom long, and that his reign was came to attack him, Anthemius, supported by
signalized by a departure from the more simple Gothic auxiliaries under Gelimer, made a stont
customs of his ancestors, and by the introduction resistance, till at last the besieger gained the city
of systematic debauchery, like that of the Ionians. in consequence of his victory at the bridge of
To supply his lavish extravagance, he oppressed Hadrian. Rome was once more plundered, and
and pillaged his subjects, putting many to death, Anthemius was murdered by order of Ricimer
and confiscating their property. Four hundred (11th July, 472). Olybrius was now recognised as
talents he deposited with the citizens of Priene, emperor without any opposition, and could exercise
2 a resource in case of a reverse of fortune, and his power free from any control, since immediately
c3
1. A Trojan, charioteer
- by Agamemnon. (Hom. L
Cocus and Laonome, grandson
randson of Opus, was a king
married to Eriopis, by whom
f Ajax, who is hence called
Dileus was also the father of
Tom. II. ii. 527, 725, xiii.
1. 117. ) He is also mea-
mauts. (Apollod. v. 10. 88;
Orph. Argon. 191. ) [L. S. ]
áöns), the painter of a
use of the Five Hundred,
thens, representing Calip-
the army which repulsed
Brennus, at Thermopylae,
4. s. 5. ) [P. S. ]
thical personage, who is
st Greek lyric poet, and
hymns in hexameter
ected with the worship
elegend, he was made
con with Apollo is also
of the
Delphian poetess
as a Hyperborean, and
racles ; but the more
native of Lycia. In
the extreme part of
intimates the distant
of Apollo, to which,
en properly belongs.
Jeker (Europa und
ply, the Aute-player.
h went under his
Chose to
8
Here, to
e last was in cele
llo and Artemis
5, i. 13. § 3, . 7.
Jim. Hymn. in Del
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OLYMPIAS.
OLYMPIAS.
after this catastrophe, Ricimer was attacked by a that deed in the open manner asserted by some
violent distem per which carried him off a few weeks writers. (Plut. Alex. 2, 9, 10; Justin. ir. 5, 7
afterwards. The only act of Olybrius during his xi. 11; Athen.
