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Identifier: classicaldiction00ssmi (find matches)
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Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: S. Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
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coris (Caes. B. C. i. 61). Octolophus. 1. A town of Lyncestis in Mace-donia (Liv. xxxi. 36).—2. A town in Perrhaebia(Liv. xliv._3). Ocypete. (Hahpviae.) Ocyrhoe (CLKvpo-ri). 1. One of the daughtersof Oceanus and Tethys.—2. Daughter of thecentaur Chiron, possessed the gift of prophecy,and is said to have been changed into a mare. Odenathus, the ruler of Palmyra, checkedthe victorious career of the Persians after thedefeat and capture of Valerian, A. D. 260, anddrove Sapor out of Syria (Procop. Pers. ii. 5).In return for these services, Gallienus bestowedupon Odenathus the title of Augustus. He wassoon afterwards murdered, not without theconsent, it is said, of his wife Zenobia, 266. Hewas succeeded hy Zenobia. Odessus tOSritraSs : OSriaaW-qs, OS-qatrevs):(Varna), also called Odyssus and Odissus at alater time, a Greek town in Thracia (in the laterMoesia Inferior) on the Pontus Euxinus nearlydue E. of Marcianopolis, was founded by theMilesians in the territory of the Crobyzi in the.
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Coin of Odessus.Obv., head of Caracalla. laureate : ayt. k. M. avp. CEVH-poc ANTQNE1NOC; »vt., figure of Serapis (according toothers, of Pluto) with cornucopia and patera, standingat an altar : OiHCCElTuN. reign of Astyages, king of Media (b. c. 594-559).The town had a good harbour, and carried onan extensive commerce. (Strab. p. 319 ; Diod.xix. 73; Ov. Trist. i. 9, 37; C.I.L. iii. 762.) Odoacer, usually called king of the Heruli,was the leader of the barbarians who overthrewthe Western empire A. D. 476. He took the titleof king of Italy, and reigned till his power wasoverthrown by Theodoric, king of the Goths.Odoacer was defeated in three decisive battlesby Theodoric (489-490J, and took refuge in Ra-venna, where he was besieged for three years. Hecapitulated on condition that he and Theodoricshould be joint kings of Italy; but Odoacer wassoon afterwards murdered by his rival (Procop.B. G. i. 1, ii. 6 ; Jordan, lirb. Goth. pp. 128-141). Odomantlce COSo/xauTtK-fi), a district in theNE

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