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 474 OLINTIGI. he mentions north of the mouth of the Olinas is Noeomagus, or Noviomagus, of the Lexuvii or Lexovii. This is the Orne, which flows into the Atlantic below Caen in the department of Calvados. D'Anville says that in the middle age writings the name of the river is OIna, which is easily changed into <9rwe. Gosselin supposes the Olinas to be the Savie, and there are other conjectures ; but the identity of name is the only evidence that we can trust in this case. [G. L.] OLINTIGI, a maritime town of Hispania Bae- tica, lying E. of Onoba. (Mela, iii. 1. § 4.) Its real name seems to have been Olontigi, as many coins are found in the neighbourhood bearing the inscription olont. (Florez, Med. ii. pp. 495, 509, iii. p. 103; Mionnet, Slip. i. p. HI, ap. Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 340.) Variously identified with 3{o- guer and Pahs. [T. H. D.] OLISirO ('OAioo-eiTrcoc, Ptol. ii. 5. § 4), a city of Lusitania, on the right bank of the Tagus, and not far from its mouth. The name is variously written. Thus Pliny (iv. 35) has Olisippo; so also the Iliti. Ant. pp. 416, 418, seq. In Mela (iii. 1. § 6), Solinus (c. 23), &c., we find Ulyssippo, on ac- count probably of tlie legend mentioned in Strabo, which ascribed its foundation to Ulysses, but which is more correctly referred to Odysseia in Hispania Baetica. [Odysseia.] Under the Romans it was a municipium, with the additional name of Felicitas Julia. (Plin. I. c.) The neighbourhood of Olisipo was celebrated fur a breed of horses of remarkable fleetness, which gave rise to the fable that the mares were impregnated by the west wind. (Plin. viii. 67 ; Varr. R. R. ii. 1, 19; Col. vi. 27.) It is the modern Lisboa or Lisbon. [T. H. D.] OLI'ZON (^0i^wv: EtJi.'OXiCdvws), an ancient town of Magnesia in Thess.aly, mentioned by Homer, who gives it the epithet of " rugged." (Horn. 11. ii. 717.) It possessed a harbour (Scylax, p. 25); and as it was opposite Artemisium in Euboea (Plut. Them. 8), it is placed by Leake on the isthmus cnnnecting the peninsula of Trikhiri with the rest of Magnesia. (Strab. ix. p. 436; Plin. iv. 9. s. 16; Steph. B. s. V. ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 384.) O'LLIUS (^Oglio), a river of Cisalpine Gaul, and one of the more considerable of the northern tribu- taries of the Padus. It rises in the Alps, at the foot of the Monte Tonale, flows through the Val Camonlca (the district of the ancient Camuni), and forms the extensive lake called by Pliny the Lacus Sebiims, now the Logo d' Iseo. From thence it has a course of about 80 miles to the Padus, receiving on its way the tributary streams of the Mela or Mella, and the Clusius or Chiese. Though one of the most important rivers of this part of Italy, its name is mentioned only by Pliny and the Geogra- pher of Ravenna. (Phn. iii. 16. s. 20, 19. s. 23; Geogr. Rav. iv. 36.) [E. H. B.] OLMEIUS. [BoEOTiA, Vol. L p. 413, a.] O'LMIAE. [CoRiNTHUs, Voh L p. 683, a.] OLMO'NES {"OXjxixives : Eth. "O oouev<;), a village in Boeotia, situated 12 stadia to the left of Copae, and 7 stadia from Hyettus. It derived its name from Olmus, the son of Sisyphus, but con- tained nothing worthy of notice in the time of Pau- sanias. Forchhammer places Olmones in the small island in the lake Copais, SW. of Copae, now called Trelo-Yani. [See the Map, Voh I. p. 411, where the island lies SW. of No. 10.] (Pans. ix. 24. § 3; Steph. B. s. v.; Forchhammer, Eellenika, p. 178.) OLYMPENE. OLOCRUS (rb 'OAoKpov opos, Plut. Aem. Paul. 20), a mountain near Pydna, in Macedonia, repre- sented by the last fails of the heights between Aydn and Elefthero-hhori. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 433.) [E. B. J.] OLOOSSON {"OXooaffdiv: Eth. 'OXooaadvws), a town of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, mentioned by Homer, who gives to it the epithet of " white," from its white argillaceous soil. In Procopius the name occurs in the corrupt form of Lo.ssonus. It is now called Elassona, and is a place of some im- portance. It is situated on the edge of a plain near Tempe, and at the foot of a hill, on which there is a large ancient monastery, defended on either side by a deep ravine. The ancient town, or at least the citadel, stood upon this hill, and there are a few fragments of ancient walls, and some foundations behind and around the monastery. (Hom. 11. ii. 739; Strab. ix. p. 440; Lycophr. 905; Steph. B. s. v.; Procop. de Aedif. iv. 14; Leake, iVor^^ern Greece, vol. iii. p. 345.) OLOPHYXUS ('OA(5(|)u|os, Herod, vii. 22 ; Thuc. iv. 109: Scyl. p. 27; Strab. vii. p. 331; Steph. B.), a town on the peninsula of Acte, the site of which is probably represented by the Arsand of Khilanddri, the tenth and last monastery of the E. shore of the Monte Santo. It is reported that here there were Hellenic remains found, in particular those of a mole, part of which is now left. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 141, 151.) [E. B. J.] OLPAE ("OAttoi : Eth. 'OArraTos). 1. A for- tress on the Ambracian gulf, in the territory of Argos Amphilochicum. [See Vol. I. pp. 207, 208.] 2. A fortress of the Locri Ozolae, the position of which is uncertain. (Thuc. iii. 101.) OLTIS. De Valois suggested, and D'Anville adopts his opinion, that we ought to read Oltis in- stead of Clitis in the verse of Sidonius Apoilinaris {Propempt.) : — "CHtis, Elaris, Atas, Vacalis." D'Anville observes that the same river is named Olitis in a poem of Theodulf of Orleans. Accord- ingly the river ought to be named Olt or L' Olt ; but usage has attached the article to the name, and we now speak of Le Lot, and so use the article twice. The Lot rises near Mont Lozere on the Cevennes, and it has a general west course past Mende and Cahors. It joins the Garonne a few miles below Agen, which is on the Garonne. [G. L.] OLU'RIS. [DoRiuM.] OLU'RUS. [Pellene.] OLUS ("OAoyy, Scyl. p. 19; 'Kmhr^, ap. Stepih. B. S.V.; Ptol. iii. 17. § 5; aZ. "OAouAis ; Sladiasm. 350: Eth. 'OAovrioi, 'OAoyri), a town of Crete, the citizens of which had entered into a treaty with those of Lato. (Bcickh, Inscr. vol. ii. No. 2554.) There was a temple to Britomartis in this city, a wooden statue of whom was erected by Daedalus, the mythical ancestor of the Daedalidae, and father of Cretan art. (Pausan. ix. 40. § 3.) Her efiigy is represented on the coins of Olus. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 316: Mionnet, Descr. voL ii. p. 289; Combe, 3fns. Hunter.) There is considerable difiiculty in making out the position of this town; but the site may probably be represented by Aliedha near Spina Longa, where there are ruins. Mr. Pashley'.s map erroneously identifies these with Naxos. (Comp. HiJck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 417.) [E. B. J.] OLYMPE'NE {'OAvfiTT-nvT'i), a district of Mysia, on the northern slope of Mount Olympus, from which