He was lord of the lake [Killarney], its islands and the surrounding land

His sway was just and generous, and his reign propitious; he was the sworn foe of the oppre or; he was brave, hospitable, and wise. Annually since his death, or rather disappearance, he is said to revisit the pleasant places among which he lived. Every May morning he may be seen gliding over the lake mounted on a white steed, richly caparisoned, preceded and followed by youths and maidens who strew spring flowers in his way. Dunlop, Hist. of Prose Fict., I. 230, note. O'Donoju (ō-don-ō-Hö'), Juan. Born in Spain about 1755: died at Mexico, Oct. 8, 1821. The last Spanish ruler of New Spain, or Mexico. He was a lieutenant-general in the army, and had held high official positions in Spain. In 1821 he was appointed captain-general and acting viceroy of New Spain, arriving at Vera Cruz July 30; but the revolution had acquired such strength that he could only treat with the leaders. On Aug. 24 he signed with Iturbide, at Cordoba, a treaty in which he agreed to surrender Mexico, and virtually adhered to the plan of Iguala. He was elected one of the five regents, and died in office. O'Donovan (ō-don'ō-van), John. Born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, July 9, 1809: died at Dublin, Dec. 9, 1861. An Irish archæologist. He published a translation of "Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters, etc." (1848-51), etc. This book was written 1632-36. He also published a grammar of the Irish language (1845), and translated and edited "The Battle of Magh Rath" for the Irish Archæological Society (1842), etc. O'Donovan, William Rudolf. Born in Virginia, March 28, 1844. An American sculptor. He has produced many portrait-busts and reliefs. Among his statues are those of Paulding, at Tarry town; Washington, for the Republic of Venezuela, at Caracas; Washington, for the monument at Newburg, with four other statues; Washington, with two other statues, for the Trenton battle monument; and, in conjunction with Thomas Eakins, equestrian statues of General U. S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln for the memorial arch at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York. O'Dowd (o-doud'), Cornel i us. A pseudonym of Charles James Lever. Odrysian Bard, The. Orpheus. Ody eus (ō-dis'ūs), L. Uly es (ū-lis'ēz) or Ulixes (ü-lik'sēz). [Gr 'Ὀδυσσεύς.] In Greek legend, a king of Ithaca, one of the heroes of the Trojan war, especially famous for his wanderings and exploits on the homeward voyage. See Ody ey . He was the son of Laertes, the husband of Penelope, and the father of Tele mach us. His intelligent courage, practical wisdom, and resourcefulne in all emergencies make him the ideal representative of the Ionic Greek race. Ody ey (od'i-si). An epic poem, attributed to Homer, in which are celebrated the adventures of Ody eus (Uly es) during ten years of wandering, spent in repeated endeavors to return to Ithaca, his native island, after the close of the Trojan war. Some critics, both ancient and modern, who have acknowledged the Homeric origin of the Iliad. attribute the Ody ey to a different author. (See Homer .) The Ody ey is the only complete surviving example of a whole cla of epics, called Nostoi , describing the return voyages of various Greek heroes from Troy. (See Iliad .) It represents Ody eus as being thrown by a storm at the outset of his voyage on the coast of Thrace, north of the island of Lemnos. He plundered the town of Ismarus, belonging to the Cicones, where he lost a number of his followers. Next he was driven to the country of the Lotophagi on the coast of Libya; then to the goat-island, which lay a day's voyage to the north of the Lotophagi. Leaving all his ships behind, except one, he sailed to the The Century Cyclopedia of Names Ody ey neighboring island of the Cyclopes (the western coast of Oersted. See Örsted . Sicily), where with twelve companions he entered the cave of the Cyclops Polyp hem us, a son of Poseidon and Thoosa. Oertel. See Ortel. Polyp hem us devoured six of the intruders, and kept Odys- Oesel. See Ösel . seus and the others prisoners. Ody eus made Polyphe- Oesterley. See Österley . mus drunk with wine, put out his eye with a burning pole, and escaped with his companions by concealing himself and them under the bellies of the sheep which the Cyclops let out of his cave. Thenceforth, however, he was pursued by the anger of Poseidon, who sought to revenge the injury inflicted on his son. After further adventures, in which he lost all his ships except one, he arrived at the island of Ææa, inhabited by the sorcere Circe. At her instance he made a journey to Hades; then sailed by the island of the Sirens near the west coast of Italy, pa ed between Scylla and Charybdis, and arrived at Trinacria, the island of Helios. Here his companions killed some of the sacred oxen belonging to Helios, with the result that they were all drowned in a shipwreck after leaving the island. Ody eus escaped with his life to the island of Ogygia, inhabited by the nymph Calypso, with whom he lived 8 years. Leaving Ogygia on a raft built with the a istance of the nymph, he was again shipwrecked, but reached Scheria, the island of the Phæacians, where he was discovered by Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous and Arete. He was carried to Ithaca by the hospitable Phæacians, and after slaying the suitors of his wife Penelope, who had been wasting his property during his absence, was welcomed by his wife and subjects. Though there was controversy in old days about the priority of the Iliad, it seems quite settled now that we must look upon the Ody ey as a later poem - how much later it is impo ible to say. The limits a igned have varied from those who believe it the work of the same author in old age, to those who place it two centuries later (as M. E. Burnouf does), owing to the difference of its plan and style. But, as Bonitz says, if not composed in the old age of Homer, it was composed in the old age of Greek epic poetry, when the creative power was diminishing, but that of ordering and arranging had become more developed. The plot of the Ody ey is skilfully conceived, and on the whole artistically carried out, even though modern acutene has found flaws in its sutures. But critics seem agreed that the elements of the Ody ey were not short and disconnected lays, but themselves epics of considerable length, one on the return of Odys. seus, another on on the adventures of Tele mach us, and these are chief. Mahaffy, Hist. of Cla ical Greek Lit., I. 78. Oedenburg. See Ödenburg . Edipe (e-dēp'). 1. A tragedy by Corneille, produced in 1659.-2. A tragedy by Voltaire, produced Nov. 18, 1718, though written some time before. Edipus (ed'i-pus). [Gr. Οἰδίπους .] In Greek legend, a king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocaste. He slew the Sphinx, and was guilty of involuntary crime in killing his father and marrying his mother. He was a favorite subject of the epic and tragic poets. Edipus Colone us (kō-lō-nē'us), or Edipus at Colonus (kō-lō'nus). A tragedy of Sophocles which was not exhibited till four years after his death, and was said to be the last he wrote. In it Edipus, driven from Thebes by Creon, with his daughters Anti gone and Ismene seeks asylum with These us at Athens, and there obtains pardon from the gods, and peace. Edipus Tyrannus (ti-ran'us). A tragedy by Sophocles, of uncertain date, "placed by the scholiasts, and by most modern critics, at the very summit of Greek tragic art." Egir. See Ægir . Oehlenschläger. See Öhlenschläger . Oeland. See Öland . Eneus (e'nūs). [Gr. Οἰνεύς.] In Greek legend, king of Calydon, husband of Althæa, and father of Meleager and Tydeus. Enomaus (en-ō-mā'us). [Gr. Οἰνόμαος.] In Greek legend, a king in Elis, son of Ares, and father of Hippodame i a by the Pleiad Sterope. Œta (ē'tä). [Gr. Οίτη .] In ancient geography, a mountain in southern The aly: the modern Katavothra. It forms the northern barrier of central Greece, and was flanked by the pa of Thermopylæ. Height, about 7,060 feet. Oetinger. See Ötinger . Oettingen. See Öttingen . Oeynhausen (ė'in-hou-zen), Bad. A watering- place in the province of Westphalia, Pru ia, on the Werre near Minden. Population (1890), 2,482 . Of an to (o-fän′tō). Ariver in southeastern Italy, which falls into the Adriatic 39 miles northwest of Bari: the ancient Aufidus. Length, about 75 miles. Ofen (ō'fen). The German name of Buda. Offa (of'ä). King of Mercia from about 757 to 796. He conquered Oxfords hire from We ex, and surjugated the Welsh kingdom of Powys, west of the Severn. He drew up a code of laws which have perished. Ogle thorpe Ogéron de la Bouère (ō-zhā-rôn' dė lä bö-ar'), Bertrand Denis d'. Born near Angers, 1615: died at Paris, Dec., 1675. A French adventurer, founder of the colony of Haiti. After an unsucce ful attempt to colonize Guiana (1656), he joined the bucaneers, and in 1665 was appointed governor of Tortuga by the French West India Company. The bucaneers probably had transient establishments on the western end of Española as early as 1632, but they first obtained an official standing and were greatly extended under Ogéron, who even at tempted to conquer the whole island in 1674. Oggersheim (og'gers-him). A town in the Palatinate, Bavaria, 5 miles west of Mannheim. Population (1890), 4,537. Oggione (od-jō'ne), or Uggione (öd-jō'ne), Marco da. Born at Oggione about 1460: died 1530. An Italian painter, chiefly known from his copies of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" (in London and Milan). Ogham. In Celtic mythology. See the extracts. cult sciences; and, according to Lucian, Oghum was painted in the second century as a Herculean Mercury, old, in a lion's skin, with a club in his right hand and a bent bow in his left, the ears of his worshippers bound by a chain of gold and amber to his tongue. The word "ogham," in modern Irish, stands for the oc Morley, English Writers, I. 168. Offa's Dyke. An intrenchment which extends from near the mouth of the Wye northward near the border of England and Wales to the mouth of the Dee. It was built for defense against the writing, that is to say of the Ogam alphabet; for Ogma Welsh by Offa, king of Mercia, in the 8th century. Offenbach (offen-bäch). A city in the province of Starken burg, He e, situated on the Main 4 miles east of Frankfort. It is the first manufacturing city of He e, and has various manufactures, the most important being portfolios and fancy leather goods, engines, etc. It was founded by French refugees. Population (1890), 35,085. Offenbach (of-en-bäk'), Jacques. Born at Cologne, June 21, 1819: died at Paris, Oct. 5, 1880. A French composer of opera bouffe. He was conductor of the orchestra of the Théâtre Français in 1848, and began to attract attention by the production of operettas at small theaters. In 1855 he took the Théâtre Comte, changed its name to Les Bouffes Parisiens, and became at once popular. Among his opera bouffes are "Orphée aux enfers" (1858), "La grande-duche e de Gerolstein" (1867), "La belle Hélène" (1864), "Barbe-bleue" (1866), "Madame Favart" (1878), "Le Papillon" (1860: a ballet pantomime), "La Périchole" (1868), "Vert-Vert" (1869), and "Les contes d'Hoffmann" (opéra comique, produced after his death, in 1881). Offenburg (of'fen-börg). A town in Baden, situated on the Kinzig 12 miles southeast of Strasburg. It was formerly an imperial town. Here, Sept. 24,1707, the Imperialists under Mercy defeated the French. Population (1890), 8,481. Ofotenfjord (ō-fō'ten-fyôrd). Along fiord on the northwestern coast of Norway, near the Lofoten Islands. He is signalized in Irish mythology as the inventor of being much skilled dialects and in poetry, it was he, we are told, who invented the Ogam to provide signs for secret speech only known to the learned, and designed to be kept from the vulgar and poor of the nation. The motive attributed to Ogma is an invention of a comparatively late age, for there was nothing cryptic about the Ogam alphabet; but the allusion to Ogma's skill in poetry and dialects is important, especially as there was not only a mode of writing called Ogam, but also a kind of pedantic jargon which bore that name. Now Irish legend will have it that the Ogam was so called from the name of Ogma, which is etymologically impo ible. Rhys, Celtic Heathendom, p. 18. Ogier (ō-zhyā'), Le Prieur. The name under which Jean Louis Guez, Seigneur de Balzac, published his "Apology." Ogier, the Dane, F. Ogier le Danois or Ogier de Danemarcke, Dan. Holger Danske or Olger Dansk. In medieval legend, one of the paladins of Charlemagne: the subject of French chansons degeste of the 12th and 13th centuries. These are based on older forms. His name is also given as Oger, Ager, and Autcair. M. Barrois, who has edited the 12th-century chanson, which is written in the Walloon dialect by Raimbert, a trouvère, thinks he should be called Ogier l'Ardennois or d'Ardenmarche. The trouvère Adenès also wrote a chanson de geste of the same cycle. Ogier, the son of Geoffrey the king of Denmark, is brought up at the court of Charlemagne, and at one period of the romance a umes the crown of Denmark; but he tires of it and returns to Charlemagne, becoming one of his chief paladins. After a succe ful and warlike career, at the age of 100 years he is carried away to the Isle of Avalon A semi-mythical German minstrel of the 13th century. Og (og). An Amorite king of Bashan, defeated by the Hebrews at the epoch of their entrance into Canaan. He was a giant (Deut. iii. 11). Ogalala, Ogallalla. See Oglala . Ogam. See Ogham . Ogden (og'den). Acity, capital of Weber County, Utah, situated on the Weber River 32 miles north of Salt Lake City. It is an important junction of the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Utah Central, and Utah and Northern railroads. Population (1900), 16,313. Ogden, Aaron. Born at Elizabeth town, N. J., forgetfulne of the world, but sends him back, after 200 years have pa ed, to defend France. After repelling its invaders and restoring the old spirit of knighthood, he returns to Avalon, where he sleeps, and whence he may again awake and return to defend the right. As Holger Danske, he has been raised to the position of Danish national hero. Ogilby (o'gl-bi), John. Born at Edinburgh, 1600: died at London, Sept. 4, 1676. A Scottish poet, translator, and compiler of atlases. He published "America, being the most accurate Description of the New World" (London, 1671). Ogilvie (ō'gl-vi), John. Born in Marnoch, Banff An oracle had declared that he should die if his daugh-. ter should marry, and he therefore made it a condition that those who came forward as suitors for Hippodame i a's hand should contend with himself in the chariot-race, and he who conquered should receive her, whereas those that were conquered should suffer death. The race-course extended from Pisa to the altar of Poseidon on the Corinthian isthmus. At the moment when a suitor started with Hip podameia, Œnoma us sacrificed a ram to Zeus at Pisa, and then armed himself and hastened with his swift chariot and four horses, guided by Myrtilus, after the suitor. He thus overtook many a lover, whom he put to death, until Pelops, the son of Tantalus, came to Pisa. Pelops bribed Myrtilus, and, using the horses which he had received from Poseidon, he succeeded in reaching the goal before Enomaus, who in despair made away with himself. Smith , Dict. Enophyta (e-nof'i-tä). [Gr. Οινόφυτα .] In ancient geography, a place in Bœotia, Greece, about 23 miles north of Athens. Here, in 456 B. C., the A then i ans under Myronides defeated the Bœotians. Enotria (e-nō'tri-ä). [Gr. Οἱνοτρία .] In ancient geography, a name given by the Greeks to the southern part of Italy. Enus (ē'nus). The ancient name of the Inn. Enu æ (e-nö'sē). [Gr. Οἰνοῦσσαι .] A group of five islands in the Ægean Sea, situated between Chios and the mainland of Asia Minor: the modern Spalmadori. 19, 1839. An American soldier in the Revolutionary War, and governor of New Jersey 18121813. Ogden, William Butler. Born at Walton, N. Y., June 15, 1805: died at New York, Aug. 3, 1877. An American merchant and railroad president, prominent in developing the Northwest. He became first mayor of Chicago in 1837. Ogdensburg (og'denz-berg). A city in St. Lawrence County, New York, situated at the entrance of the Oswegatchie into the St. Lawrence, in lat. 44° 41′ N., long. 75° 30′ W. It has important foreign and domestic commerce in grain and manufactures. It became a city in 1868, and is sometimes called "the Maple City." Population (1900), 12,633. Ogé, or Ojé (ō-zhā'), Jacques Vincent. Born in Dondon about 1755: died at Port-au-Prince, Feb. 26, 1791. A Haitian insurgent. He was a light mulatto. He was educated in Paris, and represented the colony in the French Constituent A embly. In 1790 he organized in the United States a secret expedition for the emancipation of the colored race in Haiti. He landed at Cape François Oct. 23, but after some slight succe es was defeated, captured, and broken on the wheel. He was regarded as a martyr by the colored population, and his cruel death led to the practical extermination of the whites soon after. Ogeechee (ō-gēchē). A river in southeastern Georgia which flows into the Atlantic 17 miles south of Savannah. Length, over 200 miles. 21, 1867. A Scottish lexicographer. He was appointed teacher of mathematics at Gordon's Hospital, Aberdeen, in 1831, remaining till 1859. He compiled "The Imperial Dictionary" (1847-50), "The Comprehensive Engary" (1865), "An English Dictionary, etc., for the Use of lish Dictionary" (1863), "The Student's English Diction Schools" (1867). Oglala (ō-glä lä). ['She scattered her own.'] The people The people of Red Cloud, part of the Titonwan. The name has been corrupted into Ogalala . Ogle (o'gl). A character, in Mrs. Cent livre's comedy The Beau's Duel,” who fancies everybody is in love with him. Ogleby (o'gl-bi), Lord. In Garrick and Colman's "Clandestine Marriage," a faded and delicate but witty old beau. When this play was first produced in 1766, Garrick refused to take the part, and in consequence a coldne arose between him and Colman, which lasted IMG:content-0861.png:[blocks in formation] Ogle thorpe insolvent debtors and persecuted Protestants, conducted the expedition for its settlement 1733, and returned to England 1743. Oglio (ōl'yō). A river in northern Italy, joining the Po 10 miles southwest of Mantua: the ancient Ollius. It traverses the Lake of Iseo. Length, about 135 miles.