Ocnus

, a son of the Tiber and of Manto, who a isted Æneas against Turnus. He built a town, which he called Mantua after his mother’s name. Some suppose that he is the same as Bianor. Virgil , Eclogues , poem 9; Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 198 .――A man remarkable for his industry. He had a wife as remarkable for her profusion; she always consumed and lavished away whatever the labours of her husband had earned. He is represented as twisting a cord, which an a standing by eats up as soon as he makes it; whence the proverb of the cord of Ocnus often applied to labour which meets no return, and which is totally lost. Pro pert i us , bk. 4 , poem 3, li. 21 .— Pliny , bk. 35 , ch. 11 .— Pausanias , bk. 10 , ch. 29 .