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- Olbia,
- A citie of Narbon called Eres.
- Olcachites,
- The bosome of the sea in the prouince called Zeugitana.
- Olearus,
- One of the yles called Cyclades.
- Oleastrum,
- I towne of Spaine.
- Olenus, ni,
- Vulcanes sonne.
- Olenus,
- A citie in Arcadia, where the Goate, wyth whose mylke Iupiter was nourished, was brought vp: and therefore the signe of starres (which was supposed to be the same Goate) is named Olenia.
- Olenius, a, um,
- Of Olenus.
- Oliba,
- A towne in Spaine, called commonly Olie.
- Olicana,
- A towne in Englande, called Kyrkby.
- Ollus,
- A mannes name, that was a great marker of other mens faultes.
- Olophernes,
- Chiefe Constable to the great Nabugodono∣sor king of Assyrian••, a valyaunt capitaine: notwyth∣standing (being ouercharged with wyne, and to muche trusting in the beautie and pleasaunt speach of the He∣brewe Ladie Iudith) he was by hir slaine in his bedde, and had his heade stryken of, and brought to his eni∣myes. Hée was before the incarnation of Christ .633. yeares.
- Olympia,
- A citie betwéene the hylles of Ossa, and Olym∣pus.
- Olympia, ôrum,
- Solemne playes & games kept in Gréece, to the honour of Iupiter Olympicus, or (after some) in the honour of Hercules.
- Olympiacus, a, um,
- Perteyning to those playes, or to the ci∣tie Olympia.
- Olympias, adis,
- The name of Alexanders mother, and a wynde blowing in Euboea. Olympias, is also the space of fiue yeares, whereby the olde Gréekes did accompt, as we doe nowe by the yeares of our Lorde: as, the first Olympias, the seconde, the thirde. &c. Glareanus wryteth, that Olympias is the space of foure yeares, and that they, which take and wryte otherwise are decey∣ued.
- Olympicus, a, um,
- Of Olympus.
- Olympicum certamen▪
- Was a game or pryce kept on the hyll of Olympus, by all the princes and cities of Gréece, euery fift yeare, in the honour of Hercules, who first be∣ganne it. In the which were all these maistries prooued: Running on foote to a goale. Also running foorth▪ and back again two furlongs. Also wrastling, fighting with fistes, running wyth horses, and leaping from the one to the other, coursing wyth Chariottes: running with Mares: but so as in the myddle of the course, hée that did ryde should leape downe, and holding fast the brydle, shoulde make an ende of his course. There was also contention and victorie of Poetes, Rhetoricians, Mu∣sitians, and subtyle disputers. In the place did growe a wylde Olyue trée, whereof Garlands were made▪ and gyuen to the victours herevnto assembled: In the which tyme eyther warre was appoynted, or leagues concluded.