A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

10 ODATIS. ODOACER.
the Cretan towns, and to supersede Q. Metellus rived in the banquet-hall of Omartes, disguised in a
Creticus in the command of the island. (Dion Scythian dress, just as Odatis, reluctantly and in
Cass. xxxvi. 1, 2; Plut. Pomp. 29.) For further, tears, was mixing the wine at the board where the
details see METELLUS, No. 23, P. 1064. goblets stood. Advancing close to her side, he
20. L. OCTAVIUS, detected in adultery by C. whispered, " Odatis, I am here at thy desire, I,
Memmius, and punished by him. (Val. Max. vi. Zariadres." Looking up, she recognised with joy
1. ~ 13.) the beautiful youth of her dream, and placed the
21. P. OCTAVIus, a noted epicure in the reign cup in his hands. Immediately he seized and bore
of Tiberius, who outbid even Apicius in the sum her off to his chariot; and so the lovers escaped,
which he gave for a mullet that Tiberius had favoured by the sympathising attendants of the
ordered to be sold. (Senec. Epist. 95.) palace, who, when Omartes ordered them to pursue
22. OCTAVIUS GRAECINUS, one of the generals the fugitives, professed ignorance of the way they
of Sertorius, in Spain, distinguished himself in the had taken. This love story, we are told, was most.
first battle fought between Pompey and Sertorius, popular in Asia, and a favourite subject for paintnear the town of Lauron, B. C. 76. He afterwards ings; and Odatis was a prevalent female name in
joined the conspiracy of M. Perperna, by which noble families. [E. E.]
Sertorius perished, B.C. 72. (Frontin. Strat. ii. 5. ODENA'THUS, the husband of the heroic
~ 31; Plut. Sert. 26.) Zenobia [ZENOBIA], according to Zosimus, was
23. M. OCTAVIus LAENAS CURTIANUS, one of a noble family of Palmyra, according to Procoof the distinguished men who supplicated the pius (Persic. ii. 5) the prince of a Saracenic tribe
judges on behalf of M. Scaurus, B. c. 54. (Ascon. dwelling upon the banks of the Euphrates, accordin Scaur. p. 29, ed. Orelli.) ing to Agathias (lib. iv.) of humble origin. He is
24. C. OCTAVIus LAENAS, curator of the included by Trebellius Pollio in his catalogue of
aquaeducts in Rome, in the reigns of Tiberius and the thirty tyrants [see AURaOLUS], but unlike
Caligula from A. D. 34 to A.D. 38. (Frontin. the great majority of these usurpers, deserves to
Aquaed. ~ 102.) be considered as the saviour rather than the
25. SER. OCTAVIUS LAENAS PONTIANUS, consul destroyer of the Roman power. At the moment
with M. Antonius Rufinus, in the reign of Hadrian, when all seemed lost in the East, in consequence
A. D. 131. (Fasti.) of the capture of Valerian, and the dispersion of
26. OCTAVIUS RUFUS was a friend of the his army, Odenathus having -collected a powerful
younger Pliny, who addresses two letters to him, force marched boldly against the victorious Sapor,
in which he presses Octavius to publish the poems whom he drove out of Syria, recovered Nisibis,
he had composed. (Plin. Ep. i. 7, ii. 10.) In together with all Mesopotamia, captured the harem
another letter (ix. 38) Pliny praises a work of one of the Persian monarch, and pursued him up to the
Rufus, who may, perhaps, be the same as this very walls of Ctesiphon. Returning loaded with
Octavius Rufus. plunder, he next turned his arms against Quietus,
OCTA'VIUS FRONTO. [FRONTO.] son of Macrianus, and shut up the pretender in
OCTA'VIUS HERE'NNIUS. [HERENNIUS]. Emesa, where he perished upon the capture of the
OCTA'VIUS HORATIA'NUS. [PRISCIANUS, city. In gratitude for these important services,
THEODORUS.) Gallienus bestowed upon his ally the title of
OCTA'V1US LAENAS. [OCTAVIUS, No. 22, Augustus, and acknowledged him as a colleague in
23.] the empire, but Odenathus did not long enjoy his
OCTA'VIUS LAMPA'DIO. [LAMPADIo.] well-earned dignity, for he was slain by the
OCTA'VIUS MAMI'LIUS. [MAMILIUS.] domestic treachery of his cousin, or nephew,
OCTA'VIUS SAGITTA. [SAGITTA.] Maeonius, not without the consent, it is said, of
OCY'PETE ('mcv7r~e'l), the name of two Zenobia, about the year A. D. 266. Little is
mythical beings, one a Danaid, and the other known with regard to the history of this warlike
a Harpy. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 5; Hes. T/leog. Arab, except the naked facts detailed above, and
267.) [L. S.] that from his earliest years he took great delight
OCY/RHOE. ('Kv2cpon.) 1. One of the in the chase, and willingly endured the severest
daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. (Hes. Theog. 360; hardships. [MAEONIVS.] [W. R.]
Iom. Hymno. inl Cer. 420; Paus. iv. 30. ~ 3.) ODI'TES, the name of two mythical beings,
2. A daughter of the centaur Cheiron. (Ov. one a centaur, and the other an Ethiopian, who
Met. ii. 638; Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 18; Eratosth. was slain by Clymenus at the wedding of Perseus.
Catast. 18.) [L. S.] (Ov. MAet. xii. 457, v. 97.) [L. S.]
ODATIS ('Ods), daughter of Omartes, a O'DIUS. (COlos). 1. The chief of the HaliScythian king. According to a story recorded by zones, assisted the Trojans against the Greeks, but
Chares of Mvtilene (up. Atlh. xiii. p. 575), Odatis was slain by Agamemnon. (Hom. II. ii. 856, v. 38;
and Zariadres (king of the country between the Strab. xvi. p. 551.)
Caspian gates and the Tan-iis) fell mutually in love 2. A herald in the cairp of the Greeks at Troy.
from the sight of one another's image in a dream. (Hom. II. ix. 170.) [L. S.]
But Omartes, having no son, wished his daughter ODOA'CER ('OaaKcpos), King of Italy, from
to marry one of his own relatives or near friends. A. D. 476-493. He was the son of one Edeco,
He therefore summoned them all to a banquet, who was undoubtedly the same Edecon who was
whereat he desired Odatis to fill a cup with wine, minister of Attila and his ambassador at Constanand present it to whomsoever she chose for her hus- tinople. Odoacer had a brother, Onulf, who likeband. Meanwhile, however, Zariadres had received wise became conspicuous. It appears that Odoacer
notice from her of her father's intentions, and, being was by origin a Scyrrus, and that after the disengaged in a military expedition near the banks of persion of the Scyrri by the East Goths, he was
the Tandis, he set out with only one attendant, chosen the chief of the remnants of that broken
and, having travelled a distance of 800 stadia, ar- tribe, but he is also called a Rugian, an Herullian,