The annexed coin belongs to this gens, but by whom it was struck is uncertain. The names on the obverse, Q. ogvl. car. ver., are those of triumvirs of the mint, and are probably abbrevia- tions of Q. Ogulnius, Carvilius, and Verginius or Virgilius.
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COIN OF OGULNIA GENS.
OGU'LNIUS. 1, 2. Q. and Cn. Ogulnii,
tribunes of the plebs, B. c. 300, proposed and car-
ried a law by which the number of the pontiffs was
increased from four to eight, and that of the augurs
from four to nine, and which enacted that four of
the pontiffs and five of the augurs should be taken
from the plebs. (Li v. x. 6 — 9.) Besides these
eight pontiffs there was the pontifex raaximus, who
is generally not included when the number of
pontiffs is spoken of. The pontifex maximus con-
tinued to be a patrician down to b. c. 254, when
Tib. Coruncanius was the first plebeian who was
invested with this dignity.
In B.C. 296 Q. and Cn. Ogulnii were curule
aediles. They prosecuted several persona for
violating the usury laws ; and with the money
accruing from the fines inflicted in consequence
they executed many public works (Liv. x. 23).
The name of Cn. Ogulnius does not occur again
after this year.
In B. c. 294 Q. Ogulnius was sent at the head
of an embassy to Epidaurus, in order to fetch Aescu-
lapius to Rome, that the plague might be stayed
which had been raging in the city for more than
two years. The legend relates that, upon the
arrival of the ambassadors at Epidaurus, the god in
the form of a gigantic serpent issued from the sanc-
tuary, and settled in the cabin of Q. Ogulnius.
(Val. Max. i. 8 § 2 ; Aur. Vict, de Vir. III. 22 ;
Liy. Epii. 11; Oros. iii. 22; Ov. Met.xy. 622, &c.)
In B. c. 273 Q. Ogulnius was again employed
on an embassy, being one of the three ambassadors
sent by the senate to Ptolemy Philadelphus, who
had sought the friendship and alliance of the
Romans in consequence of their conquest of
Pyrrhiis. The ambassadors were received with
great distinction at the Egyptian court, and loaded
with presents. These they were obliged to accept ;
but the golden crowns which had been given them,
they placed on the heads of the king's statues ; and
the other presents they deposited in the treasury
immediately upon their arrival at Rome, but the
senate restored them to them. (Val. Max. iv. 3.
§ 9 ; Justin, xviii. 3 ; Dion Cass. Fragm. 147,
with the note of Fabricius.)
. M. Ogulnius was sent into Etruria with P. Aquillius in B. c. 210, in order to purchase corn to be sent to Tarentum. (Liv. xxvii. 3.)
. M. Ogulnius, tribune of the soldiers in the second legion, fell in battle against the Boii, B. c. 196. ( Liv. xxxiii. 36.)
OGY'GUS or OGY'GES {^ayvyns), is some-
times called a Boeotian autochthon, and sometimes
a son of Boeotus, and king of the Hectenes, and
the first ruler of the territory of Thebes, which
was called after him Ogygia. In his reign the
waters of lake Copais rose above its banks, and
inundated the whole valley of Boeotia. This flood
is usually called after him the Ogygian. (Paus. ix,
5. § 1 ; ApoUon. Rhod. iii. 1177 ; Serv. ad Virg,
Ed. vi. 41.) The name of Ogyges is also con-
nected with Attic story, for in Attica too an
Ogygian flood is mentioned, and he is described as
the father of the Attic hero Eleusis, and as the
father of Daeira, the daughter of Oceanus. (Paus.
i. 38. § 7.) In the Boeotian tradition he was
the father of Alalcomenia, Thelxinoea and Aulis
(Suid. s. V. npa|iSiK7) ; Paus. ix. 33. § 4.) Polybius (iv. 1) and Strabo (viii. p. 384) call Ogyges
the last king of Achaia, and some traditions even
described him as an Egyptian king. (Tzetz. ad
Lye. 1206.) [L. S.]
OICLES or OICLEUS ('Oi"/cA^s, 'o;«Aei/s),
a son of Antiphates, grandson of Melampus and
father of Amphiaraus, of Argos. (Hom. Od. xv.
241, &c.) Diodorus (iv. 32) on the other hand,
calls him a son of Amphiaraus, and Pausanias
(vi. 17. § 4), a son of Man tins, the brother of
Antiphates. Oicles accompanied Heracles on his
expedition against Laomedon of Troy, and was
there slain in battle. (Apollod. ii. 6. §4; Diod.
iv. 32.) According to other traditions he returned
home from the expedition, and dwelt in Arcadia,
where he was visited by his grandson Alcmaeon,
and where in later times his tomb was shown.
(Apollod. iii. 7. § 5 ; Paus. viii. 36. § 4.) [L. S.]
OILEUS ('OiAeus.) 1. A Trojan, charioteer
of Bianor, was slain by Agamemnon. (Hom. II.
xi. 93.)
. A son of Hodoedocus and Laonome, grandson of Cynus, and great-grandson of Opus, was a king of the Locrians, and married to Eriopis, by whom he became the father of Ajax, who is hence called Oi'lides or Oiliades. O'ileus was also the father of Medon by Rhene. (Hom. //. ii. 527, 725, xiii. Q^l., 712; Propert. iv. 1. 117.) He is also men- tioned among the Argonauts. (Apollod. v. 10. § 8 ; ApoUon. Rhod. i. 74 ; Orph. Argon. 191.) [L. S.]
O'LBIADES ('OAgiaSTjs), the painter of a
picture in the senate-house of the Five Hundred,
in the Cerameicus, at Athens, representing Calip-
pus, the commander of the army which repulsed
the invading Gauls under Brennus, at Thermopylae,
B. c. 279. (Paus. i. 3. § 4. s. 5.) [P. S.]
OLEN ('flAT^j/), a mythical personage, who is
represented as the earliest Greek lyric poet, and
the first author of sacred hymns in hexameter
verse. He is closely connected with the worship
of Apollo, of whom, in one legend, he was made
the prophet. His connection with Apollo is also
marked by the statement of the Delphian poetess
Boeo, who represents him as a Hyperborean, and
one of the establishers of oracles ; but the more common story made him a native of Lycia. In either case, his coming from the extreme part of the Pelasgian world to Delos intimates the distant origin of the Ionian worship of Apollo, to which, and not to the Dorian, Olen properly belongs. His name, according to Welcker [Europa und Kadmos^ p. 35), signifies simply the Jiute-player. Of the ancient hymns, which went under his name, Pausanias mentions those to Here, to Achaeia, and to Eileithyia ; the last was in celebration of the birth of Apollo and Artemis. (Herod, iv. 35 ; Paus. i. 18. § 5, ii. 13. § 3, v. 7. § 8, ix. 27. § 2, X. 7. § 8 ; Callim. Hymn, in Dei.