Olba, or Olbus, a town of Cilicia.
Olbia, a town of Sarmatia at the confluence of the Hypanis and the Borysthenes, about 15 miles from the sea, according to Pliny. It was afterwards called Borysthenes and Miletopolis, because peopled by a Milesian colony, and is now supposed to be Oczakow. Strabo, bk. 7.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.——A town of Bithynia. Mela, bk. 1, ch. 19.——A town of Gallia Narbonensis. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 5.——The capital of Sardinia. Claudian.
Olbius, a river of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 14.
Olbus, one of Æetes’ auxiliaries. Valerius Flaccus, bk. 6, li. 639.
Olchinium, or Olcinium, now Dulcigno, a town of Dalmatia, on the Adriatic. Livy, bk. 45, ch. 26.
Olbades, a people of Spain. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 5.
Oleăros, or Oliaros, one of the Cyclades, about 16 miles in circumference, separated from Paros by a strait of seven miles. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 126.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, li. 469.—Strabo, bk. 10.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.
Oleatrum, a town of Spain near Saguntum. Strabo.
Olen, a Greek poet of Lycia, who flourished some time before the age of Orpheus, and composed many hymns, some of which were regularly sung at Delphi, on solemn occasions. Some suppose that he was the first who established the oracle of Apollo at Delphi where he first delivered oracles. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 35.
Olenius, a Lemnian killed by his wife. Valerius Flaccus, bk. 2, li. 164.