⁂ This tale has furnished the subject matter of several tragedies. In Greek we have _Œdipus Tyrannus_ and _Œdipus at Colōnus_, by Sopho´oclês.[TN-45] In French, _Œdipe_, by Corneille (1659); _Œdipe_, by Voltaire (1718); _Œdipe chez Admète_, by J. F. Ducis (1778); _Œdipe Roi_ and _Œdipe à Colone_, by Chénier; etc. In English, _Œdipus_, by Dryden and Lee. =Œno´ne= (3 _syl._), a nymph of Mount Ida, who had the gift of prophecy, and told her husband, Paris, that his voyage to Greece would involve him and his country (Troy) in ruin. When the dead body of old Priam’s son was laid at her feet, she stabbed herself. Hither came at noon Mournful Œnōnê, wandering forlorn Of Paris, once her playmate on the hills [_Ida_] Tennyson, _Œnone_. ⁂ Kalkbrenner, in 1804, made this the subject of an opera. =Œno´pian=, father of Mer´opê, to whom the giant Orīon made advances. Œnopian, unwilling to give his daughter to him, put out the giant’s eyes in a drunken fit. Orion ... Reeled as of yore beside the sea, When blinded by Œnopian. Longfellow, _The Occultation of Orion_. =Œte´an Knight= (_The_). Her´culês is so called, because he burnt himself to death on Mount Œta or Œtæa, in Thessaly. So also did that great Œtean knight For his love’s sake his lion’s skin undight. Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, v. 8 (1596). =Offa=, king of Mercia, was the son of Thingferth, and the eleventh in descent from Woden. Thus: Woden (1) his son Wihtlæg, (2) his son Wærmund, (3) Offa I., (4) Angeltheow, (5) Eomær, (6) Icel, (7) Pybba, (8) Osmod, (9) Enwulf, (10) Thingferth, (11) Offa, whose son was Egfert, who died within a year of his father. His daughter, Eadburga, married Bertric, king of the West Saxons; and after the death of her husband, she went to the court of King Charlemagne. Offa reigned thirty-nine years (755-794). =O’Flaherty= (_Dennis_), called “Major O’Flaherty.” A soldier, says he, is “no livery for a knave,” and Ireland is “not the country of dishonor.” The major pays court to old Lady Rusport, but when he detects her dishonest purposes in bribing her lawyer to make away with Sir Oliver’s will, and cheating Charles Dudley of his fortune, he not only abandons his suit, but exposes her dishonesty.--Cumberland, _The West Indian_ (1771). =Og=, king of Basan. Thus saith the rabbis: The height of his stature was 23,033 cubits [_nearly six miles_]. He used to drink water from the clouds, and toast fish by holding them before the orb of the sun. He asked Noah to take him into the ark, but Noah would not. When the flood was at its deepest, it did not reach to the knees of this giant. Og lived 3000 years, and then he was slain by the hand of Moses.