most of the Persians, made his escape from the town ; but he fell into the hands of the Apsinthian Thracians, and was sacrificed by them to Pleistorus, one of their gods (Her. ix. 115, 118, 1 19). [E.E.]
OEOCLUS (OJfoKAos), a son of Poseidon by
Ascra, who in conjunction with the Aloadae, is
said to have built the town of Ascra in Boeotia,
(Paus. ix. 29. § 1.)
OEO'LYCUS (OtoAuKos), a son of Theras of
Sparta, and brother of Aegeus, Avas honoured at
Sparta with an heroum. (Herod, iv. 149 ; Paus.
iii. 15. §6.) [L.S.]
OEO'NUS (Olwvos), a son of Licymnius of
Midea in Argolis, was the first victor at Olympia,
in the foot-race. (Pind. 01 xi. 76, &c. ; ApoUod.
ii. 7. § 3 ; Paus. iii. 15. § 3.) He is said to
have been killed at Sparta by the sons of Hippo-
coon, but was avenged by Heracles, whose kins-
man he was, and was honoured with a monument
near the temple of Heracles. (Paus. I. c.) [L. S.]
OESALCES, brother of Gala, king of the Nu-
midian tribe of the Massylians, whom he succeeded
on the throne, according to the Numidian law of
inheritance. He was at the time of very advanced
age, and died shortly after, leaving two sons, Ca-
pusa and Lacumaces. (Liv. xxix. 29.) [E. H. B.]
OETOLINUS. [Linus.]
OETOSYRUS (OlToavpos), the name of a
Scythian divinity whom Herodotus identifies with
the Greek Apollo. (Herod, iv. 59.) [L. S.]
OE'TYLUS (OtrvXos), a son of Amphianax,
and grandson of Antimachus of Argos. The La-
conian town of Oetylus was believed to have
received its name from him, and he there enjoyed
heroic honours. (Paus. iii. 25. § 7.) [L. S.]
OFELLA, a man of sound sense and of a
straightforward character, whom Horace contrasts
with the Stoic quacks of his time. (Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 3.) The old editions of Horace have Ofellus, which Bentley proposed to change into Ofella, remarking that Ofella and Ofellius were known Roman names, but that Ofellus occurs nowhere else. The conjecture of Bentley is now confirmed by manuscript authority.
OFELLA, Q. LUCRETIUS, originally be-
longed to the Marian party, but deserted to Sulla ;
and although he had not hitherto distinguished
himself in any way (Dion Cass, xxxiv. Fragm.
134), Sulla appointed him to the command of the
army employed in the blockade of Praeneste, where
the younger Marius had taken refuge in B. c. 82.
Praeneste was obliged to surrender in the course of
the year, and the younger Marius put an end to his
own life. Relying on these services, Ofella be-
came a candidate for the consulship in the follow-
ing year, although he had not yet been either
quaestor or praetor, thus acting in defiance of
Sulla's law De Magistratibus. Sulla at first attempted to dissuade him from becoming a candidate ; but as he persisted in his purpose, and
entered the forum supported by a large party,
Sulla sent a centurion to kill him in the middle of
the forum, and informed the people that he had
commanded the execution of Ofella, because he
refused to obey his commands. After saying this,
Sulla told them the following tale, which is preserved by Appian : — " The lice were very troublesome to a countryman, as he was ploughing. Twice
he stopped his ploughing, and purged his jacket.
But he was still bitten ; and in order that he
might not be hindered in his work, he burnt the
jacket. And I advise those who have been twice
humbled not to make fire necessary the third
time." (Appian, B. C. i. 88, 94, 101 ; Plut. 8ull.
29, 33 ; Liv. Epit. 88, 89 ; Veil. Pat. ii. 27, who
erroneously says that Ofella had been praetor.)
The name of the centurion that put Ofella to death
was L. Bellienus. He was afterwards brought to
trial for this murder by Julius Caesar and con-
demned. (Ascon. in Tog. Cand. p. 92, ed. Orelli ;
Dion Cass, xxxvii. 10.) The orator, who is cha-
racterised by Cicero {Brut. 48) as coniionibus
aptior quam judiciis, is probably the same as the
subject of this article, though the name in Cicero
is corrupt.
OFELLUS. [Ofella.]
OFI'LIUS or OFE'LLIUS. The name occurs
in inscriptions in both forms ; but in writers we
generally find OfiHus.
. Ofilius Calavius, a Campanian in the time of the Samnite wars. [Calavius, No. 3.]
. Ofillius {'OcplWios), as he is called by Appian (B. C. v. 128), a tribune of the soldiers in the army of Octavian, b. c. 38.
. M. Ofilius Hilarus, whose painless death is recorded at length by Pliny. {H.N. vii. 53. s. 54.)
. Ofellius {'O(piios a philosopher men- tioned by Arrian {Epid. iii. 22. § 27).
OFI'LIUS, A., a Roman jurist, is named by
Pomponius (Dig. 1, tit. 2. s. 2. § 44) Gains Aulus
Ofilius, but the praenomen Gains appears to be
some blunder of a copyist. Ofilius was one of the
pupils of Servius Sulpicius, and the master of
Tubero, Capito and Labeo. He was a friend of
Cicero, who, on one occasion, cites his opinion as
opposed to that of Trebatius {ad Fam. vii. 21,
ad Ait. xiii. 37). He was also a friend of the
Dictator Caesar. Ofilius belonged to the eques-
trian order, but he obtained a high reputation for
legal knowledge. " He wrote," says Pomponius
(Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. § 44), "many treatises on the
Jus Civile," among which De Legibus vicesimae
{manumissionum), and De Jurisdidione. The
fifth book of his Jus Partitum is cited (Dig. 32.
s. 55), and the sixteenth book of a work on
actions (33. tit, 9. s. 3. §§ 5, 8), and a treatise ad-
dressed to Atticus (50. tit. 16. s. 234. § 2), who is
probably T. Pomponius Atticus. Ofilius is often
cited in the Digest. " Ofilius," says Pomponius,
"edictura praetoris primus diligenter composuit,"
which probably means an arrangement of the edictal
law, like the later work of Julian, or it might be a
commentary upon it. Caesar had conceived a
design of arranging the Jus Civile^ to which his
connection with Ofilius may have contributed.
(Ziramem, Geschichte desRom. Privatrechts ; Puchta-
Cursus, ^c vol. i. p. 427 ; Grotius, Vit. Juris-
consult.) [G. L.]
OGO'A ('07ci$a), the Carian name of Zeus at
Mysala, in whose temple a sea-wave was seen
from time to time. (Paus. viii. 10. § 3.) Strabo
(xiv. p. 659) calls the god of Mysala, in the Carian
dialect, Osogo. [L. S.]
OGU'LNIA GENS, plebeian, is most known
through one of its members being the proposer of the law, which opened the two great ecclesiastical corporations to the plebeians. The first and only person in this gens who obtained the consulship is Q. Ogulnius Gallus, who was consul B. c. 269. Gallus is the only cognomen of the Ogulnii : the others, who have no surname, are given below.
