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- Ocalee,
- A citie of Boe••tia.
- Occásio, onis,
- foe. gen. The Goddesse of oportunitie, whose Image is this deuised of Poetes. Shée standeth on a tumbling wheele, with winges on hir féete, turning hir∣selfe rounde very swiftly, on hir heade hauing all the heare before, and cleane balde behinde. By which yma∣gination they signifie, that oportunitie is a thing, that soone passeth, and is cleane lost, vnlesse it be presently ap∣prehended.
- *Post haec occasio calua,
- A prouerbe. Take occasion when it commeth, for hée that will not when he may, when he will he shall haue nay. The tyde taryeth no man.
- * Occasio premenda,
- A prouerbe, when the sunne shineth, make hay: the tyde must be taken when it commeth.
- Oceanius, a, um,
- Of the Occean sea.
- Oceanus,
- The sonne of Caelum, and Vesta, the great God of the sea, and father of all the ryuers.
- Océanus, i,
- mas. gen. The broade sea, called the Occean sea, which compasseth the worlde, and addeth to his name, the name of the countreys, by which it passeth: as.
- Oceanus Britanicus,
- The sea next England and Scotland.
- Oceanus Indicus,
- The Indian sea.
- Ocellum,
- A citie in Spayne.
- Ochesius,
- A Duke of the people called Aetoli.
- Ochus,
- A ryuer which passeth through Acarnania a coun∣trey in Gréece.
- Ocnus,
- One in hell, whome Poetes feigne to doe nothing but winde and make cordes, and so fast as he hath twi∣sted them, an Asse standeth and biteth it of. Whereof ry∣seth this prouerbe Ocnus funiculum torquet, spoken of one that taketh great paine to thriue, and hath a shrewd housewife at home, that spendeth as fast as he getteth: Ocnus, is also he that buylded Mantua.
- Ocrinum,
- Saint Michaels mount in Cornewall.
- Octapitarum promontorium,
- A place in Wales called saint Dauids.
- Octauia,
- The sister of Augustus, and wyfe of Antonius, whome hée afterwarde forsooke. An other was daugh∣ter of Claudius the Emperour, and wyfe to Nero, who caused hir to be slayne.
- Octauianus,
- The name of Augustus, before hée tooke on him the Monarchie.
- Octauius,
- The name of Augustus father, and of dyuers o∣ther Romaines.
- October, bris,
- mas. gen. The moneth of October.
- Octoduri,
- Scin and Valeis in Fraunce.
- Ocyalus,
- A mans name in Homer.
- Ocypete,
- One of the Harpeys.
- Ocyrhoē,
- A nymph the daughter of Oceanus.
- Ocyron,
- A ryuer in Arcadie.