d by suitors. To excuse herself, Penelop[^e]
tells her suitors he only shall be her husband who can bend Odysseus's
bow. None can do so but the stranger, who bends it with ease.
Concealment is no longer possible or desirable;

XXII. He falls on the suitors hip and thigh;

XXIII. Is recognized by his wife.

XXIV. Visits his old father, Laert[^e]s; and the poem ends.

=Oea'grian Harpist= (_The_), Orpheus, son of Oea'gros and Cal'li[=o]p[^e].

... can no lesse
Tame the fierce walkers of the wilderness,
Than that Oeagrian harpist, for whose lay
Tigers with hunger pined and left their prey.

Wm. Browne, _Brittania's Pastorals_, v. (1613).

=Oe'dipos= (in Latin _Oedipus_), son of La[:i]us and Jocasta. The most
mournful tale of classic story.

[Asterism] This tale has furnished the subject matter of several
tragedies. In Greek we have _Oedipus Tyrannus_ and _Oedipus at
Col[=o]nus_, by Sopho'ocl[^e]s.[TN-45] In French, _Oedipe_, by Corneille
(1659); _Oedipe_, by Voltaire (1718); _Oedipe chez Adm[`e]te_, by J. F.
Ducis (1778); _Oedipe Roi_ and _Oedipe [`a] Colone_, by Ch['e]nier; etc.
In English, _Oedipus_, by Dryden and Lee.

=Oeno'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 Oen[=o]n[^e], wandering forlorn
Of Paris, once her playmate on the hills [_Ida_]

Tennyson, _Oenone_.

[Asterism] Kalkbrenner, in 1804, made this the subject of an opera.

=Oeno'pian=, father of Mer'op[^e], to whom the giant Or[=i]on made
advances. Oenopian, 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 Oenopian.

Longfellow, _The Occultation of Orion_.

=Oete'an Knight= (_The_). Her'cul[^e]s is so called, because he burnt
himself to death on Mount Oeta or Oetaea, in Thessaly.

So also did that great Oetean knight
For his love's sake his lion's skin undight.

Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry 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 Wihtlaeg, (2) his son
Waermund, (3) Offa I., (4) Angeltheow, (5) Eomaer, (