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O'MOBE. 810 OMUL. of 1574. He escaped, and was pardoned again in ir)7(>, but the hope of help fioni Spain made him rebel once more. After several escapes he was <aui,'ht and killed l)y the Fit?patricks, and his Jiead was set up on Dublin Castle. OMPHALE, om'fa-le. The Lydian queen wliom llercuk's served. See Hercules. OM'PHALUS (Lat.. from Gk. (!^^0a^65, om- /ilmlox. navel, the centre point). The name of a stone in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, supposed to mark the centre of the earth. Accordinjr to the lepend Zeus loosed two eagles, one at the east and one at the west, and in their llight they met at this point. In works of art the stone is conical, and covered with a network of fillets or ribbons, while often on eitlier side are perched the eafiles. In the time of Pausanias the Om- phalus stood outside the temple. The oripin of the Omphahis is not clear. Conical atones were elsewhere worshiped, but there is uuich in the Delphic legend which suggests that the Omphalus marke<l a grave, and was connected with an early chthonic cult. OMSK, 6msk. The capital of the Territory of Akniolinsk and of the Governor-Generalship of the Stepjjes, Russian Asia, situated at the con- fluence of the Om with the Irtysh, on a barren steppe. 1(;24 miles by rail east of Moscow {Map: Asia, G 3). Its average annual temperature is somewhat over 3.3°. It is poorly built. It has two gymnasia, a seminar}' for teachers, a tecli- niciil scliool, and the West Siberian section of the Russian (u'ographical Society. Its indus- tries are tniimportant. Its commerce lias some- what developeil since the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Omsk having become a distributing station for Western Siberia. Popu- lation, in 1897, 37,470. OMTJL, 6-nu.il'. A small salmon (Salmo mi- firntorius) . which abounds in Lake Baikal and other waters of Eastern Siberia, whence great quantities are sent salted to all of the western parts of the country.