. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ol. ii. p. 167.) [E. B. J.] (>RIGENOMESCI. [Argesomesci.] ORIGIACUM (Opiyiaxdv). Ptolemy (ii. 9.§ 7) makes this town the chief place of the Atri-batti or Atrebates in Belgica. There is nothingthat fixes the position of Ongiacum except its re-semblance to the name Orchies, which Cluver sug-gested. Orchies is between Dovay and Tonmay,and appears to be beyond the limits of the Atre-bates, whose chief town in Caesars time was Neme-taciun (Arras). [G. L.] ORINGIS. [Adrihx.] ORIPPO, a town of Hispania Baetica, on theroad from Gades to Hispalis. (Plin. i
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ol. ii. p. 167.) [E. B. J.] (>RIGENOMESCI. [Argesomesci.] ORIGIACUM (Opiyiaxdv). Ptolemy (ii. 9.§ 7) makes this town the chief place of the Atri-batti or Atrebates in Belgica. There is nothingthat fixes the position of Ongiacum except its re-semblance to the name Orchies, which Cluver sug-gested. Orchies is between Dovay and Tonmay,and appears to be beyond the limits of the Atre-bates, whose chief town in Caesars time was Neme-taciun (Arras). [G. L.] ORINGIS. [Adrihx.] ORIPPO, a town of Hispania Baetica, on theroad from Gades to Hispalis. (Plin. iii. 3:[tin. Ant. p. 410.) Commonly identified withVilla de dos Hermaiios, though some have men-tioned Alcala de Guadaira and Torre de los Iler-beros. Ancient coins of the place have a bunch ofgrapes, showing that the neighbourhood was rich inwines, a character which it still preserves. (Caro,Ant. iii. 20; Florez, Esp. Sagr. ix. p. Ill, Med. 512 : Mionnet, i. p. 23, Suppj. i. p. 39 ; Sestini,Med. p. 77.) [T. H. D.] ORNEAE. 493. coix of orarro ORITAE (ClpuTai), a people inhabiting the sea-! Gedrosia, with whom Alexander fell in onii:^ march from the Indus to Persia. (Arrian, , 22, 24, &c.) Their territory appears to havebeen bounded on the east by the Arabis, and on thewest by a mountain spur which reached the sea atMoran. (Vincent, Voy. of Nearchns, i. ) There is considerable variation in themanner in which their names are written in dif-ferent authorities : thus they appear as Oritae (Indie. 23. Exped. Alex. vi. 22); npiraiin Strabo (xv. p. 720). Dionysius Perieg. (v 1096\Plutarch (Alex. c 66), and Stephanus B.; as Oriin Arrian (vi. 28) and Pliny (vi. 23. § 26) ; andHoritae in Curtius (ix. 10. 6) ; yet there can beno doubt that they are one and the same and Strabo have described them at some length. According to the former, they were anIndian nation (vi. 21 : cf. Diod. xvii. 105), whowore the same arms and dress as those people,bu
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