Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . , seq.; Mure,Journal of a Tour in Greece, vol. i. p. 106, seq.;see also, respecting the arches at Oeniadae, Leake,Peloponnesiaca, p. 121.) Strabo (x. p. 450) speaks of a town calbd OldOenia (J) ivaKaia. OiVaio*), which was deserted inhis time, and which he describes as midway be-tween Stratus and the sea. New Oenia (J) vvvOlvaia), which he places 70 stadia above the mouthof the Achelous, is the celebrated town of Oeniadae,spoken of above. The history of Old Oenia is un-known. Leake conjectures that it may possiblyhave been Erysiche {Epvalxv), which Ste
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . , seq.; Mure,Journal of a Tour in Greece, vol. i. p. 106, seq.;see also, respecting the arches at Oeniadae, Leake,Peloponnesiaca, p. 121.) Strabo (x. p. 450) speaks of a town calbd OldOenia (J) ivaKaia. OiVaio*), which was deserted inhis time, and which he describes as midway be-tween Stratus and the sea. New Oenia (J) vvvOlvaia), which he places 70 stadia above the mouthof the Achelous, is the celebrated town of Oeniadae,spoken of above. The history of Old Oenia is un-known. Leake conjectures that it may possiblyhave been Erysiche {Epvalxv), which Stephanussupposes to be the same as Oeniadae; but this is amistake, as Strabo quotes the authority of the poetApollodorus to prove that the Erysichaei wei-e apeople in the interior of Acarnania. Leake placesOld Oenia at Palea Mani, where he fciund someHellenic remains. (Steph. B. OiVeictSai; p. 460; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 524,seq.) 2. A city of Thessaly, in the district Oetaea.(Strab. ix. p. 434; Steph. B. s. v.). COIN OF OENIADAE. OENIUS {Olvios), also called Oenoe (OWt?,Arrian, Peripl. Pont. Eux. p. 16), a small river ofPontus, emptying itself into the Euxine, 30 stadiaeast of the mouth of the Thoaris. (Anonym. Eux. p. 11.) [L. S.] OENOANDA {OlvoavZa), a town in the extremewest of Pisidia, belonging to the territory of Cibyra,with which and Balbura and Bubon it formed atetrapolis, a political confederacy in which each townhad one vote, while Cibyra had two. (Strab. 631 ; Steph. B. s. v.; Liv. xxxviii. 37 ; Plin. ; comp. Cibyra.) The town is mentioned as lateas the time of Hierocles, who, however (p. 685),calls it by the corrupt name of Knoanda. [L. S.] * The MSS. of Strabo have hlvaia, which Leakewas the first to point out must be changed intoOlvaia. Kramer, the latest editor of Strabo, hasinserted Leakes correction in the text. II H 2 468 OENOBARAS. OENOBARAS (OiVogdpas or OiVoTrapas), a river of the plain of Antioch, in Syr
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