Oenopides, his discovery of the obliquity of the Zodiac, iii.
138.
Ogygia, an island west from Britain and its neighbor islands,
described, v. 281-283.
Oil, top of the, iii. 370;
on the sea, 503;
is transparent, v. 318;
does not easily freeze, 319.
Old age, health, and sickness, iii. 192.
Old men, love pure wine, iii. 221;
read best at a distance, 222-224;
easily foxed, 268-270;
in state affairs, v. 64-96.
Oligarchy, Monarchy, and Democracy, v. 395-398.
Olympias, anecdotes of, ii. 494, 495.
Olympus, a Phrygian player, i. 107, 108, 110, 112, 115, 116,
123.
Omens and dreams, ii. 401, 402.
Onesicrates, banquet of, i. 103, 133.
Onomademus, wisdom of, i. 295; v. 129.
Opinions of philosophers, iii. 104-193.
Optatus, v. 171.
Oracle in Cilicia, iv. 55.
Oracles of Delphi, iii. 73.
Oracles, why they cease to give answers, iv. 3-64.
Orestes slays his mother, v. 474.
Origin of things, opinions concerning the, iii. 107-113.
Orontes, his saying, i. 188.
Orpheus never imitated any one, i. 107.
Orphic Fragments, iv. 59, 404.
Oryx, fables of the, v. 193.
Osiris, iv. 75-135;
story about his birth, 74;
great actions of, 75;
his death, 76;
his body torn in pieces by Typhon, 80;
is identical with Serapis and Bacchus, 89;
with the bull Apis, 90;
sacred vestments of, 135.
Othryadas, iv. 338.
Otus, the bird, v. 163.
Oxen, teaching of, v. 193.