Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave

14 novel by her abode with him. Their house was the resort of a bril 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 Szege din. Population (1890), 19,956. Orosius (ō-rō'şi-us), Paulus. Born in Spain (probably at Tarragon a): lived in the first part of the 5th 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, Orosius represents only the narrow prejudices of an orthodox provincial of the empire in his judgments concerning the men and the events of that mighty crisis.