Onoba, a town near the columns of Hercules. Mela, bk. 3, ch. 1.
Onobala, a river of Sicily.
Onochŏnus, a river of Thessaly, falling into the Peneus. It was dried up by the army of Xerxes. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 196.
Onomacrĭtus, a soothsayer of Athens. It is generally believed that the Greek poem on the Argonautic expedition, attributed to Orpheus, was written by Onomacritus. The elegant poems of Musæus are also, by some, supposed to be the production of his pen. He flourished about 516 years before the christian era, and was expelled from Athens by Hipparchus, one of the sons of Pisistratus. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 6.——A Locrian, who wrote concerning laws, &c. Aristotle, bk. 2, Politics.
Onomarchus, a Phocian, son of Euthycrates and brother of Philomelus, whom he succeeded, as general of his countrymen, in the sacred war. After exploits of valour and perseverance, he was defeated and slain in Thessaly by Philip of Macedon, who ordered his body to be ignominiously hung up, for the sacrilege offered to the temple of Delphi. He died 353 B.C. Aristotle, Politics, bk. 5, ch. 4.—Diodorus, bk. 16.——A man to whose care Antigonus entrusted the keeping of Eumenes. Cornelius Nepos, Eumenes.
Onomastorĭdes, a Lacedæmonian ambassador sent to Darius, &c. Curtius, bk. 3, ch. 13.
Onomastus, a freedman of the emperor Otho. Tacitus.
Onophas, one of the seven Persians who conspired against the usurper Smerdis. Ctesias.——An officer in the expedition of Xerxes against Greece.
Onosander, a Greek writer, whose book De Imperatoris Institutione has been edited by Schwebel, with a French translation, folio, Nuremberg, 1752.
Onythes, a friend of Æneas, killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 514.