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2 OCEANUS. OCELLUS.
1720, especially the latter, to which we may add imperial coins of Tyre and Alexandria. (Hirt,
that of Hase, subjoined to the Valerius Maximus Mythol. Bilderb. p. 149.) [L. S.]
in Lemaire's edition of the Latin classics, 8vo. OCELLA, LI'VIUS. [GALBA, emperor, p.
Paris, 1823, and containing the commentaries of 206, b.]
both Scheffer and Oudendorp. No MS. having OCELLA, SE'RVIUS, respecting whom Caelius
been employed since the time of Aldus, all the tells Cicero that hewas detected in adultery twice
alterations introduced from tims to time into the within three days. (Cic. ad FaCL. viii. 17, ii. 15.)
text are purely conjectural. This Ocella seems to be the same person as Cicero
We have translations into French by George de speaks of more than once during the civil wars.
la Bouthidre, 8vo. Lyons, 1555, and by Victor (Ad Att. x. 10, 13, 17.)
Verger, 12mo. Paris, 1825, and into Italian by OCELLA'TAE, sisters and vestal virgins, to
Damiano Maraffi, 8vo. Lione, 1554. The first and whom the emperor, Domitian, gave the choice of
last of the above contain also translations of the the mode of their death, when they were proved
three books by Polydore Virgil on the same to have been unfaithful to their vow of chastity.
topic [\V. R.] (Suet. DoLm. 8.)
OBSI'DIUS. 1. The commander ofa Frentanian OCELLI'NA, LI'VIA. [GALBA, p. 206, b.]
troop of horse, serving under the consul Laevinus OCELLUS or OCYLLUS (l'KEAA1os,SlcUvAin the campaign against. Pyrrhus B. c. 280, dis- Aos), a Lacedaemonian, was one of the three amtinguished himself in the battle fought at the bassadors who happened to be at Athens when
river Siris in that year, by the daring attempt Sphodrias invaded Attica, in B. c. 378. They
which he made upon the king's life, He unhorsed were apprehended as having been privy to his dePyrrhus, but was killed by the personal atten- sign, but were released on their pointing out the
dants of the king. He is called Opl!acus ("OirXa- groundlessness of the suspicion, and on their assurKOS) in Plutarch, Oblacus Vulsinius ("OdAaKos OVA- ances that the Spartan government would be found
iveros) in Dionysius, but Obsidius in Florus. to look with disapproval on the attempt of Spho(Flor. i. 18. ~ 7; Plut. Pyrrh. 16; Dionys. xviii. drias. In B. C. 369, we find Ocellus again at'2-4.) Athens, as one of the ambassadors who were neoo2. Discovered in Aethiopia the stone which tiating an alliance between the Athenians and
was named after him Obsidianus (Plin. H. N. xxxivi. Spartans against Thebes. (Xen. IHell. v. 4. ~~ 22,
26. ~ 67). The name Obsidius Rufus occurs in &c., vi. 5. ~~ 33, &c.; comp. Died. xv. 29, 63;
inscriptions, but is not mentioned elsewhere. Plut. Pelop. 14.) [E. E.]
OBULTRO'NIUS SABI'NUS, was quaestor OCELLUS LUCAINUS (OKEXAos AEuKaios),
aerarii in A. D. 57, when Nero transferred the charge as his name implies, was a Lucanian, and a Pythaof the public documents from the quaestors to the gorean in some sense. There were attributed to
praefecti. He was slain by Galba, in Spain, on him a work, rlepl Nodlov, or on Law; 7repl /Bahis accession to the imperial throne, A. D. 68. (Tac. eiAseas Kat dal'rvr1os, on Kingly Rule and Piety;
Ann. xiii. 28, Hist. i. 37.) and rep rl Tos TOD 7rarYTOS Biupros, on the Nature of
OCALEIA ('ItnciEta), a daughter of Man- the Whole, which last is extant, though whether
tineus, and wife of Abas, by whom she became the it is a genuine work is doubtful, or, at least, much
mother of Acrisius and Proetus. (Apollod. ii. 2. disputed.
~ 1.) The Scholiast of Euripides (Orest. 953) Ocellus is mentioned in a letter from Archytas
calls her Aglaia. [L. S.] to Plato, which is preserved by Diogenes Lal'rtius
O'CCIA, a vestal virgin, who died in the reign (viii. 80), and in this letter the works above menof Tiberius, A. D. 19, after discharging the duties tioned are enumerated. If the letter of Archytas
of her priesthood for the long period of fifty-seven is genuine, it proves that Ocellus lived some time
years. (Tac. Ann. ii. 58.) before Archytas, for it speaks of the descendants
OCEA'NIDES. [N`MPHAE.] of Ocellus. Nothing is said in the letter about
OCE'ANUS ('n1ceav's), the god of the river Ocellus being a Pythagorean. Lucian (Pro Lapsu,
Oceanus, by which, according to the most ancient &c. vol. i. p. 729, ed. Hemst.) speaks of Ocellus and
notions of the Greeks, the whole earths was sur- Archytas as acquainted with Pythagoras, but we
rounded. An account of this river belongs to know that Archytas lived at least a hundred years
mythical geography, and we shall here confine after Pythagoras, and Lucian's historical facts are
ourselves to describing the place which Oceanus seldom to be relied on. Ocellus is mentioned by
holds in the ancient cosmogony. In the Homeric still later writers, but their evidence determines
poems he appears as a mighty god, who yields to nothing as to his period.
none save Zeus. (Il. xiv. 245, xx. 7, xxi. 195.) As he was a Lucanian, Ocellus would write in
Homer does not mention his parentage. but calls the Doric dialect, and as the work attributed to
Tethys his wife, by whom he had three daughters, him is in the Ionic, this has been made a ground
Thetis, Eurynome and Perse. (R. xiv. 302, xviii. for impugning its genuineness; but so far from
398, Od. x. 139.) His palace is placed somewhere being an argument against the genuineness of the
in the west (Ii. xiv. 303, &c.), and there he and work, this is in its favour, and only shows that some
Tethys brought up Hera, who was conveyed to them copyist had altered the dialect. Besides this, the
at the time when Zeus was engaged in the struggle fragments from this work, which Stobaeus cites, are
with the Titans. Hesiod (Theoq. 133, 337, &c., in the Doric dialect. It is, however, always a
349, &c.) calls Oceanus a son of Uranus and Gaea, doubtful matter as to early works, which are first
the eldest of the Titans, and the husband of mentioned by writers of a much later period,
Tethys, by whom he begot 3000 rivers, and as whether they are really genuine. If the existing
many Oceanides, of whom Hesiod mentions only work is not genuine we must suppose that when
the eldest. (Comp. Apollod. iii. 8. ~ 1, 10. ~ 1.) it was fabricated the original was lost. It is also
This poet (Theog. 282) also speaks of sources of possible that it is a kind of new modelled edition
Oceanus, Representations of the god are seen on of the original; and it is also possible that the