. u, of Ombon, Eu.), the last great city ofUpper Egypt, except Syene, from which it wasI distant about thirty miles, stood on the E. OMPHALE bank of the Nile, in the Ombites Nomos, andwas celebrated as one of the chief seats of theworship of the crocodile (the crocodile-headedgod Sebek). Juvenals 15th Satire mentions areligious fight between the people of Ombi andthose of Tentyra, during a festival at Ombi(Juv. xv. 35 ; Ptol. iv. 5, 73 ; Ael. H. A. x. 21). Omphale (O/MpaK-q), daughter of the Lydianking Iardanus, and wife of
. u, of Ombon, Eu.), the last great city ofUpper Egypt, except Syene, from which it wasI distant about thirty miles, stood on the E. OMPHALE bank of the Nile, in the Ombites Nomos, andwas celebrated as one of the chief seats of theworship of the crocodile (the crocodile-headedgod Sebek). Juvenals 15th Satire mentions areligious fight between the people of Ombi andthose of Tentyra, during a festival at Ombi(Juv. xv. 35 ; Ptol. iv. 5, 73 ; Ael. H. A. x. 21). Omphale (O/MpaK-q), daughter of the Lydianking Iardanus, and wife of Tmolus, after whosedeath she undertook the government Heracles, in consequence of the murderof Iphitus, was afflicted with a serious disease,and was informed by the oracle that he couldonly be cured by serving some one for wagesfor the space of three years, Hermes soldHeracles to Omphale. The hero becameenamoured of his mistress, and, to please her,he is said to have spun wool and put on thegarments of a woman, while Omphale wore OXOMACRITU8 027. Omphale and Heracles. iFarne&e Group, now at Naples. his lions skin. She bore Heracles severalchildren. (Diod. iv. 31; Apollod. ii. 6, 3 ; ii. 305, Her. ix. For possible ex-planations of this myth, see p. 400, b. Omphalium (Ofi<pa\toi/: OfHpaKirris), a townin Crete in the neighbourhood of Cnossus(Diod. v. 70). On. [Heliopolis.] Onatas COvdras), of Aegina, a famoussculptor of the later and best period of Aegine-tun art, which still preserved somewhat of thearchaic stiffness or rigidity as compared withthe Attic style of Phidias which succeeded work of Onatas was in the earlier part ofthe fifth century His great statues werethe Black Demeter at Phigalia in bronze, afemale figure in black drapery with a horseshead (Paus. viii. 42, 1), a bronze Apollo atPergamnm (Paus. viii. 42, 7), and two groupsof statues, described by Pausanias, at Olympia,which are held by modern critics to resemble insubject a
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