Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t of Britannia Romana, op-posite to the island of Mona. They occupied theN\V. portion of Wales, or that lying between Car-digan Bay and the river Dee, viz., Montgomei-y-shire, Merionethshire, Caernarvonshire, Denbigh-shire, and Flintshire. (Camden, p. 777; xii. .33, Agric. 18.) [T. H. D.] ORESCII (^Opp-haKioi), a people of Macedonia orThrace, known only from their coins. These havebeen by some writers referred to the Orestae; but itis more probable, as suggested by Leake, that theywere one of the Thracian tribes who worked thesilver mines of P
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . t of Britannia Romana, op-posite to the island of Mona. They occupied theN\V. portion of Wales, or that lying between Car-digan Bay and the river Dee, viz., Montgomei-y-shire, Merionethshire, Caernarvonshire, Denbigh-shire, and Flintshire. (Camden, p. 777; xii. .33, Agric. 18.) [T. H. D.] ORESCII (^Opp-haKioi), a people of Macedonia orThrace, known only from their coins. These havebeen by some writers referred to the Orestae; but itis more probable, as suggested by Leake, that theywere one of the Thracian tribes who worked thesilver mines of Pangaeum; a circumstance whichwill account for our finding silver coins of large sizeand in considerable numbers struck by a people soobscure that their name is not mentioned by anyancient author (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. , Numismata Ilellenica, p. 81.) The coins inquestion, one of which is annexed, closely resemblein style and fabric those of the Bisaltae and Edoniin the same neighbourhood. [E. H. B.] ORETUM GERMANORUM. 491. COIN OF ORESCII. ORESTAE (OpeVrai, Hecat. ap. Steph. B. s. v.;Thuc. ii. 80 ; Polyb. xviii. 30 ; Strab. vii. p. 326,ix. p. 434; Plin. iv. 17), a people who are shownby Thucydides {I. c.) to have bordered upon theMacedonian Paravaei, and who partly, perhaps, ashaving been originally an Epirote tribe (Steph. V. terms them a Molossian tribe), were unitedwith the other Epirots, under their prince Antiochus,in support of the expedition of Cnemus and the Ara-braciots against Acarnania. Afterwards they wereincorporated in the Macedonian kingdom. In thepeace finally granted to Philip, b c. 196, by theRomans, the Orestae were declared free, becausethey had been the first to revolt. (Liv. xxxiii. 34.)Okestis (OpeffTis. Ptol. iii. 13. §§ 5, 22; s. v.; Liv. xxvii. 33, xxxi. 40) or Orestl\s(OpecTTios, Strab. vii. p. 326), was the name givento the district which they occupied, which, thoughit is not named by Livy and Diodorus among thecountri
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