The earliest poet, in Greek legend, is Orpheus

The name of this mythical person is the Greek form of the Indian Ribhu. The Ribhus figure in the Indian hymns as gods. Jebb, Greek Lit., p. 18. from part of the ancient Normandy. Capital, Alençon. It is bounded by Calvados on the north, Eure on the northeast, Eure-et-Loir on the east, Sarthe and Mayenne on the south, and Manche on the west. The surface bred. is Area, generally 2,354 hilly. square miles. Horses Population and other live (1891), stock 354,387. are Oromo (ō-rōmō). See Galla . Or on say (ō'ron-sā). A small island of Scotland, immediately south of Colon say. Oronte (ō-ront'). A fop in Molière's "Le mis- anthrope." He has written a sonnet in a quar- ter of an hour, and seeks applause. Orontes (ō-ron'tēz). [Gr. 'Ορόντης.] The chief river in northern Syria: the modern Nahr-el- Asi. It rises between Lebanon and Anti-Libanus, flows past Antioch, and empties into the Mediterranean about 1at. 36° 5' N. Length, about 250 miles. Orontes (mountain). See Elwend . Oroomiah. See Urumiah . Oroonoko (ō"rö-nōkō). A tragedy by South erne, founded on Mrs. Behn's novel: first acted in 1696. Oroonoko, the principal character, is a real person, and is represented as an accomplished black prince, made a slave, and paying a fearful penalty for his marriage with Imoinda. The phrase "Pity's akin to love," which is found in this play, has pa ed into a proverb. Orpheus and Eurydice. See Orfeo ed Euridice . Orpheus C. Kerr ("Office-seeker"). The pseudonym of Robert Henry Newell. Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes. A replica of an Attic high relief of the school of Phidias, in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The group is shown just at the moment when Orpheus, having looked back, must lose his wife forever. It is full of the charm and high ideal quality of the best Greek work. Orr (ôr), James Lawrence. Born at Craytonville, S. C., May 12, 1822: died at St. Petersburg, May 5, 1873. An American politician. He was a member of Congre from South Carolina 1849 1859; speaker of the House 1857-59; Confederate senator 1862-65; governor of South Carolina 1865-68; and United States minister to Ru ia 1873. Orrery, Earls of. See Boyle . Orrhoene. See Osrhoeпе . Orsay (or-sa'), Comte Alfred Guillaume Ga d'. Born at Paris about 1798: died at Paris, Aug. 4, 1852. A leader of society in Paris and London, and amateur of the fine arts. He is noted for his intimacy with the Counte of Ble ing ton. In 1827 he married Lady Harriet Gardiner, daughter of Lord Ble ing ton by his first wife. She soon left him, and Lady Ble ing ton, who was then a widow, took up Mrs. Aphra Behn, published about 1658: founded on facts which became known to her while residing at Surinam, of which her father was governor. Oropus (ō-rō'pus). [Gr. Ωρωπός .] In ancient geography, a seaport in Attica, Greece, bordering on Bœotia, situated on the Euripus 23 miles north of Athens. Near it was the oracle of Amphiaraus. Orosháza (ōrōsh-hä-zo). A town in the county of Békés, Hungary, 31 miles northeast of Szegedin. Population (1890), 19,956. Orosius (ō-rō'şi-us), Paulus. Born in Spain (probably at Tarragon a): lived in the first part century A. D. A Latin historian and theologian. He wrote an epitome of history directed against the pagans: "Hist or i arum libri vii adversus paganos" (translated into Anglo-Saxon by Alfred the Great). Paulus Orosius, a native of Tarragon a in Spain, and a friend of Augustine, wrote his Seven Books of "Histories" about the year 417, while he was still a young man (religi osus juvenis'), at the request of the Bishop of Hippo. They were to form a history of the world from the Deluge down to his own time (the last entry relates to the year 417), and the object of the book was to show that bloodshed, oppre ion, and misery had ever been the staple of human history, and that "Christian times" were unjustly blamed for the woes which the barbarians were then inflicting on the empire. Vague, pa ionate, and declamatory, of ortho Orosius represents only the narrow dox provincial of the empire in his judgments concerning the men and the events of that mighty crisis.