(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 Ore[:a]d coming down.

_Maud_, I. xvi. 1 (1855).

_Ore[:a]d._ 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 Ore[:a]d[^e]s.

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'on[^e] (4
_syl._), daughter of Menela'us (4 _syl._), king of Sparta. At the
downfall of Troy Menel[=a]us promised Hermion[^e] in marriage to
Pyrrhus, king of Ep[=i]rus, but Pyrrhus fell in love with
Androm'ach[^e], the widow of Hector, and his captive. An embassy, led by
Orest[^e]s, was sent to Epirus to demand that the son of Andromach[^e]
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 Orest[^e]s
met Hermion[^e] again, and found her pride and jealousy aroused to fury
by the slight offered her. She goaded Orest[^e]s to avenge her insults,
and the ambassadors fell on Pyrrhus and murdered him. Hermion[^e], when
she saw the dead body of the king borne along, stabbed herself, and
Orest[^e]s went raving mad.--Ambrose Philips, _The Distressed Mother_
(1712).

=Orfeo and Heuro'dis=, the tale of Orpheus and Euryd[)i]c[^e], with the
Gothic machinery of elves and fairies.

[Asterism] Gl[:u]ck 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'ocl[^e]s, compelled her
to marry Bass'an[^e]s, whom she hated. Ithocl[^e]s was about to marry the
princess of Sparta, but a little before the e