Orontas

, a relation of Artaxerxes, sent to Cyprus, where he made peace with Evagoras, . Polyænus , bk. 7 . ♦ Orontes , a satrap of Mysia, B.C. 385, who rebelled from Artaxerxes, . Polyænus. ――A governor of Armenia. Polyænus. ――A king of the Lycians during the Trojan war, who followed Æneas, and perished in a shipwreck. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 1 , li. 117 ; bk. 6 , li. 34 .――A river of Syria (now Asi ), rising in Cœlosyria, and falling, after a rapid and troubled course, into the Mediterranean, below Antioch. According to Strabo, who mentions some fabulous accounts concerning it, the Orontes disappeared under ground for the space of five miles. The word Oronteus is often used as Syrius. Dionysius Periegetes. — Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 248 .— Strabo , bk. 16 .— Pausanias , bk. 8 , ch. 20 . ♦ ‘Orantes’ replaced with ‘Orontes’