Opalia, festivals celebrated by the Romans, in honour of Ops, on the 14th of the calends of January.
Ophēlas, a general of Cyrene, defeated by Agathocles.
Opheltes, a son of Lycurgus king of Thrace. He is the same as Archemorus. See: [Archemorus].——The father of Euryalus, whose friendship with Nisus is proverbial. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 201.——One of the companions of Acœtes, changed into a dolphin by Bacchus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3, fable 8.
Ophensis, a town of Africa. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 4, ch. 50.
Ophiădes, an island on the coast of Arabia, so called from the great number of serpents found there. It belonged to the Egyptian kings, and was considered valuable for the topaz it produced. Diodorus, bk. 3.
Ophias, a patronymic given to Combe, as daughter of Ophius, an unknown person. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, li. 382.
Ophioneus, was an ancient soothsayer in the age of Aristodemus. He was born blind.
Ophis, a small river of Arcadia, which falls into the Alpheus.
Ophiūsa, the ancient name of Rhodes.——A small island near Crete.——A town of Sarmatia.——An island near the Baleares, so called from the number of serpents which it produced (ὀφις, serpens). It is now called Formentera.
Ophrynium, a town of Troas on the Hellespont. Hector had a grove there. Strabo, bk. 13.