OS′SA. One of the mountains which the giants piled on the top of
Olympus to enable them to ascend to heaven and attack the gods.
OX, see Apis.
OWL, see Æsculapius and Itys.
PACTO′LUS. The river in Lydia where Midas washed himself by order of
Bacchus, and the sands were turned to gold.
PÆ′AN. A name given to Apollo, from _pæan_, the hymn which was sung in
his honour after he had killed the serpent Python.
“With hymns divine the joyous banquet ends,
The Pæans lengthened till the sun descends.”