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 ORIGENOJIESCI. name of its harbour was Panoemus (ndvopij.os, Strab. vii. p. 31€), now Porto Ragvseo ; while tlie Celydnus (KeAuSvos, Ptol. iii. 13. §§ 2, 5) is iden- tified with the river of Dukddhes. It would seem from Virgil {Aen. x. 136) that Oricum was famous for its turpentine, while Nicander (Ther. 516) al- ludes to its boxwood. The town was restored by the munificence of Herodes Atticus. (Philostr. Her. Atl. 5.) To the E. of the mouth of tlie river of Dukhddes is a succession of lagoons, in the midst of which lies Oricum, on the desert site now called Erikho, occupied (in 1818) only by two or three huts among the vestiges of an aqueduct. (Smyth, Mediterranean, p. 46.) The present name (^epix<^i Anna Comn. xiii. p. 389) is accented on the last syllable, as in the ancient word, and E substituted for by a common dialectic change. (Pouqueville, Voyage, vol. i. p. 264; Leake, North. Greece, vol. i. pp. 36, 90.) A coin of Oricus has for type a head of Apollo. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 167.) [E. B. J,] OPJGENOMESCI. [Akgenomesci.] ORIGIACUM (^OpiyMKdv). Ptolemy (ii. 9. § 7) makes this town the chief place of the Atri- batii or Atrebates in Belgica. There is nothing that fixes the position of Origiacum except its re- semblance to the name Orchies, which Cluver sug- gested. Orchies is between Bouay and Tournay, and appears to be beyond the limits of the Atre- bates, whose chief town in Caesar's time was Neme- tacum {Arra^"). [G. L.] ORINGIS. [AuRiNx.] ORIPPO, a town of Hispania Baetica, on the road from Gades to Hispalis. (Plin. iii. l.s. 3; Jtin. Ant. p. 410.) Commonly identified with Villa de dos Hermanos, though some have men- tioned Alcala de Guadaira and Torre de los Her- heros. Ancient coins of the place have a bunrh of grapes, showing that the neighbourhood was rich in wines, a character which it still preserves. (Caro, Ant. iii. 20; Florez, Esp. Sagr. ix. p. Ill, Med. ii. p. 512 ; Mionnet, i. p. 23, Suppl. i. p. 39 ; Sestini, Med. p. 77.) ' [T. H. D.] COIN OF ORIPrO ORITAE ('npe(Tai), a people inhabiting the sea- coast of Gedrosia, with whom Alexander fell in on his march from the Indus to Persia. (Arrian, vi. 21, 22, 24, &c.) Their territory appears to have been bounded on the east by the Arabis, and on the west by a mountain spur which reached the sea at Cape Moran. (Vincent, Voy. of Nearchis, i. p. 217.) There is considerable variation in the manner in which their names are written in dif- ferent authorities : thus they appear as Oritae in Arrian {Indie. 23, Exped. Alex. vi. 22); '^plrai in Strabo (xv. p. 720),'Dionysius Perieg. (v 1096), Plutarch {Alex. c. 66), and Stephanus B.; as Ori in AiTian (vi. 28) and Pliny (vi. 23. § 26) ; and Horitae in Curtius (ix. 10. 6) ; yet there can be no doubt that they are one and the same people. Arrian and Strabo have described them at some ORNEAE. 49;3 length. According to the former, they were an Indian nation (vi. 21 ; cf. Diod. xvii. 105), who wore the same arms and dress as those people, but differed from them in manners and institutions {Ind. c. 23). According to the latter they were a race living under their own laws (v. p. 720), and armed with javelins hardened at the point by fire and poisoned (xv. p. 723). In another place Ar- rian appears to have given the true Indians to the river Arabis (or Purali), the eastern boundary of the Oritae {Indie, c. 22) ; and the same view is taken by Pliny (vii. 2). Pliny calls them " Ichthy- ophagi Oritae" (vi. 23. s. 25) ; Curtius " Indi mari- timi" (ix. 10. 8). It is probable that the true form of the name was Horitae, as the Nubian geo- grapher places a town called Haiir on the route to Firahuz in Mekrdn. (Comp. D'Anville, Eclair- cissements, cfc. p. 42 ; Edrisi, Geog. Nuh. p. 58.) [V.] ORIUNDUS. [Barbana.] ORME'NIUM (^Opix(viov), a town of Thessaly, mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships along with Hypereia and Asterium as belonging to Eurypylus (Horn. II. ii. 734). It was said to have been founded by Ormenus, the grandson of Aeolus, and was the birthplace of Phoenix. (Demetr. Scepsius, ap. Strab. ix. p. 438, .seq.) Strabo identifies this town with a place in Magnesia named Orminium, situated at the foot of Mt. Pelion, at the di.-tance of 27 stadia from Demetrias, on the road passing through lolcus, which was 7 stadia from Demetrias and 20 from Orminium. (Strab. /. c.) Leake, however, observes that the Ormenium of Homer can hardly have been the same as the Orminium of Strabo, since it appears from the situation of Asterium that Eurypylus ruled over the plains of Thessaliotis, which are watered by the Apidanus and Enipeus. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 434, seq.) ORMINIUM (^Opjxiviov opns), a mountain in the north-eastern part of Bithynia, terminating in Cape Posidium (Ptol. v. 1. §§10, 11). Ainsworth sup- poses it to be the same as the mountain now called JJerne Jailafi. [L. S.] O'RNEAE COpvfai: Eth. 'OpveaT-qs), a town in the Argeia, mentioned in the Iliad (ii 571), which is said to have derived its name from Orneus, the son of Erechtheus. Orneae retained its ancient Cy- nurian inhabitants, when Argos was conquered by the Dorians. It continued indecendent of Argos for a long time; but it was finally conquered by the Argives, who removed the Urneatae to their own city. (Paus. ii. 25. § 6, viii. 27. § 1.) Thucy- dides mentions (v. 67) the Oineatae and Cleon.<ici as allies {avij.^a.xoL) of the Argives in h. c. 41t<; and the same historian relates (vi. 7) that Orneae was destroyed by the Argives in b. c. 416. (Comp. Diod. xii. 81.) It might therefore be inferred that the destruction of Orneae by the Argives in b. c. 416 is the event referred to by Pausanias. But Miiller concludes from a well-known passage of Hero- dotus (viii. 73) that Orneae had been conquoed by Argos long before; that its inhabitants were reduced to the condition of Perioeci; and that all tiie Perioeci in the Argeia were called Orncatae from this jilace. But the Orneatae mentioned by Thucydides could not have been Perioeci, since they are called allies; and the passage of Herodotus does not require, and in fact hardly admits of, Miillcr's inteijjretation. "The Cynurians," says Henidotus (/. c), "have become Doricized by the Argives and by time, being Orneatae and Perioeci." These words would seem