Olĕnus, a son of Vulcan, who married Lethæa, a beautiful woman, who preferred herself to the goddesses. She and her husband were changed into stones by the deities. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 10, li. 68.——A famous soothsayer of Etruria. Pliny, bk. 28, ch. 2.
Olĕnus, or Olenum, a town of Peloponnesus between Patræ and Cyllene. The goat Amalthæa, which was made a constellation by Jupiter, is called Olenia, from its residence there. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 22.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3.—Strabo, bk. 8.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 8.——Another in Ætolia.
Oleorus, one of the Cyclades, now Antiparo.
Olgasys, a mountain of Galatia.
Oligyrtis, a town of Peloponnesus.
Olinthus, a town of Macedonia. See: [Olynthus].
Olisipo, now Lisbon, a town of ancient Spain on the Tagus, surnamed Felicitas Julia (Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 22), and called by some Ulysippo, and said to be founded by Ulysses. Mela, bk. 3, ch. 1.—Solinus, bk. 23.
Olitingi, a town of Lusitania. Mela, bk. 3, ch. 1.
Olīzon, a town of Magnesia in Thessaly. Homer.
Titus Ollius, the father of Poppæa, destroyed on account of his intimacy with Sejanus, &c. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 13, ch. 45.——A river rising in the Alps, and falling into the Po, now called the Oglio. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 103.