himself hung by Almonio to the same tree.--Ariosto,
_Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

=Odors for Food.= Plutarch, Pliny, and divers other ancients tell us of a
nation in India that lived only upon pleasing odors. Democ'ritos lived
for several days together on the mere effluvia of hot bread.--Dr. John
Wilkins (1614-1672).

=O'Dowd= (_Cornelius_), the pseudonym of Charles James Lever, in
_Blackwood's Magazine_ (1809-1872).

=Odyssey.= Homer's epic, recording the adventures of Odysseus (_Ulysses_)
in his voyage home from Troy.

Book I. The poem opens in the island of Calypso, with a complaint
against Neptune and Calypso for preventing the return of Odysseus (3
_syl._) to Ithaca.

II. Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, starts in search of his father,
accompanied by Pallas, in the guise of Mentor.

III. Goes to Pylos, to consult old Nestor, and

IV. Is sent by him to Sparta; where he is told by Menel[=a]us that
Odysseus is detained in the island of Calypso.

V. In the mean time, Odysseus leaves the island, and, being shipwrecked,
is cast on the shore of Phae[=a]cia.

VI. Where Nausic[=a]a, the king's daughter, finds him asleep, and

VII. Takes him to the court of her father, Alcin[:o]os, who

VIII. Entertains him hospitably.

IX. At a banquet, Odysseus relates his adventures since he started from
Troy. Tells about the Lotus-eaters and the Cyclops, with his adventures
in the cave of Polyph[=e]mos. He tells how

X. The wind-god gave him the winds in a bag. In the island of Circ[^e], he
says, his crew were changed to swine, but Mercury gave him a herb called
M[=o]ly, which disenchanted them.

XI. He tells the king how he descended into Had[^e]s;

XII. Gives an account of the syrens; of Scylla and Charybdis; and of his
being cast on the island of Calypso.

XIII. Alcinoos gives Odysseus a ship which conveys him to Ith[)a]ca,
where he assumes the disguise of a beggar,

XIV. And is lodged in the house of Eumoeos, a faithful old domestic.

XV. Telemachus, having returned to Ithaca, is lodged in the same house,

XVI. And becomes known to his father.

XVII. Odysseus goes to his palace, is recognized by his dog, Argos; but

XVIII. The beggar Iros insults him, and Odysseus breaks his jaw-bone.

XIX. While bathing, the returned monarch is recognized by a scar on his
leg;

XX. And when he enters his palace, becomes an eye-witness to the
disorders of the court, and to the way in which

XXI. Penelop[^e] is pestere