Nysius, a surname of Bacchus as the protecting god of Nysa. Cicero, Flaccus, ch. 25.
Nyssa, a sister of Mithridates the Great. Plutarch.
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Oarses, the original name of Artaxerxes Memnon.
Oarus, a river of Sarmatia, falling into the Palus Mœotis. Herodotus, bk. 4.
Oăsis, a town about the middle of Libya, at the distance of seven days’ journey from Thebes in Egypt, where the Persian army, sent by Cambyses to plunder Jupiter Ammon’s temple, was lost in the sands. There were two other cities of that name very little known. Oasis became a place of banishment under the lower empire. Strabo, bk. 17.—Zosimus, bk. 5, ch. 97.—Herodotus, bk. 3, ch. 26.
Oaxes, a river of Crete, which received its name from Oaxus the son of Apollo. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 1, li. 66.
Oaxus, a town of Crete where Etearchus reigned, who founded Cyrene.——A son of Apollo and the nymph Anchiale.
Obringa, now Ahr, a river of Germany, falling into the Rhine above Rimmagen.