Beneath his [_Agricola’s_] fatal sword the Ordovies to fall (Inhabiting the west), those people last of all ... withstood. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, viii. (1612). =Or´ead= (3 _syl._), a mountain-nymph. Tennyson calls “Maud” an _oread_, because her hall and garden were on a hill. I see my Oreäd coming down. _Maud_, I. xvi. 1 (1855). _Oreäd._ Echo is so called. =Ore´ades= (4 _syl._) or =O´reads= (3 _syl._), mountain-nymphs. Ye Cambrian [_Welsh_] shepherds then, whom these our mountains please, And ye our fellow-nymphs, ye light Oreädês. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, ix. (1612). =Orel´io=, the favorite horse of King Roderick, the last of the Goths. ’Twas Orelio On which he rode, Roderick’s own battle-horse, Who from his master’s hand had wont to feed, And with a glad docility obey His voice familiar. Southey, _Roderick, etc._, xxv. (1814). =Ores´tes= (3 _syl._), son of Agamemnon, betrothed to Hermi´onê (4 _syl._), daughter of Menela´us (4 _syl._), king of Sparta. At the downfall of Troy Menelāus promised Hermionê in marriage to Pyrrhus, king of Epīrus, but Pyrrhus fell in love with Androm´achê, the widow of Hector, and his captive. An embassy, led by Orestês, was sent to Epirus to demand that the son of Andromachê should be put to death, lest, as he grew up, he might seek to avenge his father’s death. Pyrrhus refused to comply. In this embassage Orestês met Hermionê again, and found her pride and jealousy aroused to fury by the slight offered her. She goaded Orestês to avenge her insults, and the ambassadors fell on Pyrrhus and murdered him. Hermionê, when she saw the dead body of the king borne along, stabbed herself, and Orestês went raving mad.--Ambrose Philips, _The Distressed Mother_ (1712). =Orfeo and Heuro´dis=, the tale of Orpheus and Eurydĭcê, with the Gothic machinery of elves and fairies. ⁂ Glück has an opera called _Orfeo_; the libretto, by Calzabigi, based on a dramatic piece by Poliziano (1764). =Orgari´ta=, “the orphan of the Frozen Sea,” heroine of a drama. (See MARTHA.)--Stirling, _The Orphan of the Frozen Sea_ (1856). =Or´gilus=, the betrothed lover of Penthe´a, by the consent of her father; but, at the death of her father, her brother, Ith´oclês, compelled her to marry Bass´anês, whom she hated. Ithoclês was about to marry the princess of Sparta, but a little before the event was to take place Penthea starved herself to death, and Orgilus was condemned to death for murdering Ithoclês.--John Ford, _The Broken Heart_ (1633). =Orgoglio= [_Or.gole´.yo_], a hideous giant, as tall as three men, son of Earth and Wind. Finding the Red Cross Knight at the fountain of Idleness he beats him with a club, and makes him his slave. Una informs Arthur of it, and Arthur liberates the knight and slays the giant (_Rev._ xiii. 5, 7, with _Dan._ vii. 21, 22).--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, i. (1590).