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ōrĕae, ārum, f. [1. os], the bit of a bridle (ante-class.), Titin. ap. Fest. p. 182 Müll.: oreas equo detrahere, Cael. ib.

Ŏrēăs, ădis, f., = Ὀρειάς, a mountainnymph, Oread (poet.): quam mille secutae Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades, Verg. A. 1, 500; Ov. M. 8, 787; Calp. Ecl. 4, 136; cf. Oreos.

† ŏrēon or ŏrīon, i, n., = ὄρειον, a mountain-plant, a kind of polygonos, Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 115

‡ Ŏrēos, i, m., = ὄρειος, of the mountain, i. e. Pan: Oreos Liber pater, et Oreades Nymphae appellantur, quod in montibus frequenter apparent, Fest. p. 182 Müll.

† ŏrĕŏsĕlīnon (-um), i, n., = ὀρεοσέλινον, mountain-parsley, Plin. 19, 8, 37, § 124.

Ŏrĕsītrŏphos (-us), i, f., = Ὀρεσίτροφος (mountain-fed), one of Actœon’s hounds, Ov. M. 3, 233.

Ŏrestae, ārum, m., = Ὀρέσται, a people of Macedonia, Liv. 33, 34; Plin. 4, 10, 17, § 35; Curt. 4, 13, 28.

Ŏrestes, is and ae, m., = Ὀρέστης,

  1. I. the son of Agamemnon and Clytœmnestra, who avenged his father’s death by slaying his mother, and, in company with his faithful friend Pylades and his sister Iphigenia, priestess of Diana in the Tauric Chersonese, carried away the image of Diana to Italy, near Aricia, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 30: Agamemnonius Orestes, Verg. A. 4, 471: dico vicisse Oresten, Enn. ap. Non. 306, 28 (Trag. v. 191 Vahl.): cum Pylades Orestem se esse diceret, Cic. Lael. 7, 24: clamantem nomen Orestis, Ov. H. 8, 9: quod fuit Argolico juvenis Phoceus Orestae, id. Am. 2, 6, 15 (vulg. Oresti).
    Voc.: tristis Oresta, Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 22.
    1. B. Transf., a tragedy of Euripides, founded on the story of Orestes: cum Orestem fabulam doceret Euripides, Cic. Tusc. 4, 29, 63.
      Hence,
  2. II. Orestē-us, a, um, adj., = Ὀρεστεῖος, of or belonging to Orestes, Orestean: Diana, whose image was carried away by Orestes to Aricia, Ov. M. 15, 489.

‡ Ŏrestĭădes, nymphae montium cultrices, Fest. p. 185 Müll.

Orestilla, ae, f., a female surname in the gens Aurelia; esp. Aurelia Orestilla, wife of Catiline, Sall. C. 15, 2; 35, 3; 6; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 7, 2.

ŏrestĭon, ii, n., a plant, called also helenion and nectarea, Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 108.

Ŏrestis, ĭdis, f., a district in Macedonia, Cic. Har. Resp. 16, 35; Liv. 27, 33.

Ōrētāni, ōrum, m., = Ὠρητανοί, the inhabitants of Oretum in Spain, Liv. 21, 11; Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 19.

Ōrēus (-os), i, f., a city in Eubœa, formerly Histiœa, Liv. 28, 5, 18; 31, 40, 10; Plin. 4, 12, 21, § 64.

† ŏrexis, is, f., = ὄρεξις, a longing, appetite (post-Aug.): rabidam facturus orexim, Juv. 6, 428: hinc surgit orexis, id. 11, 127: orexin, Lampr. Elag. 29 fin.