=Oswald=, steward to Goneril, daughter of King Lear.--Shakespeare, _King Lear_ (1605). _Oswald_, the cup-bearer to Cedric, the Saxon, of Rotherwood.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). _Oswald_ (_Prince_), being jealous of Gondibert, his rival for the love of Rhodalind (the heiress of Aribert, king of Lombardy), headed a faction against him. A battle was imminent, but it was determined to decide the quarrel by four combatants on each side. In this combat Oswald was slain by Grondibert.[TN-54]--Sir W. Davenant, _Gondibert_, i. (died 1668). =Othel´lo=, the Moor, commander of the Venetian army. Iago was his ensign or ancient. Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio, the senator, fell in love with the Moor, and he married her; but Iago, by his artful villainy, insinuated to him such a tissue of circumstantial evidence of Desdemona’s love for Cassio, that Othello’s jealousy being aroused, he smothered her with a pillow, and then killed himself.--Shakespeare, _Othello_ (1611). ⁂ The story of this tragedy is taken from the novelletti of Giovanni Giraldi Cinthio (died 1573). Addison says of Thomas Betterton (1635-1710): “The wonderful agony which he appeared in when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in the part of ‘Othello,’ and the mixture of love that intruded on his mind at the innocent answers of ‘Desdemona,’ ... were the perfection of acting.” Donaldson, in his _Recollections_, says that Spranger Barry (1719-1777) was the beau-ideal of an “Othello;” and C. Leslie, in his _Autobiography_, says the same of Edmund Kean (1787-1833). =Otho=, the lord at whose board Count Lara was recognized by Sir Ezzelin. A duel was arranged for the next day, and the contending parties were to meet in Lord Otho’s hall. When the time of meeting arrived, Lara presented himself, but no Sir Ezzelin put in his appearance; whereupon Otho, vouching for the knight’s honor, fought with the count, and was wounded. On recovering from his wound, Lord Otho became the inveterate enemy of Lara, and accused him openly of having made away with Sir Ezzelin. Lara made himself very popular, and headed a rebellion; but Lord Otho opposed the rebels, and shot him.--Byron, _Lara_ (1814). =Otnit=, a legendary emperor of Lombardy, who gains the daughter of the soldan for wife, by the help of Elberich, the dwarf.--_The Heldenbuch_ (twelfth century). =Otranto= (_Tancred, prince of_), a crusader. _Ernest of Otranto_, page of the prince of Otranto.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus). _Otranto_ (_The Castle of_), a romance by Horace Walpole (1769). =O’Trigger= (_Sir Lucius_), a fortune-hunting Irishman, ready to fight every one, on any matter, at any time.--Sheridan, _The Rivals_ (1775). =Otta´vio= (_Don_), the lover of Donna Anna, whom he was about to make his wife, when Don Giovanni seduced her and killed her father (the commandant of the city) in a duel.--Mozart, _Don Giovanni_ (opera, 1787).