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• OPUS ('O7rois)

OPUS ('O7rois)  , in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• GREECE

Greece, the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the Opuntian Locrians; the walls of the See also:

• TOWN

town may still be seen on a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill about 6 m . S.E. of the See also:

• MODERN

modern Atalante, and about i m. from the channel which separates the mainland from See also:

• EUBOEA (pronounced Evvia in the modern language)

Euboea . It is mentioned in the Homeric See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue among the towns of the Locrians, who were led by See also:

• AJAX
• AJAX (Gr. Alas)

Ajax Oileus; and there were See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games called Aiantea and an See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar at See also:

• OPUS ('O7rois)

Opus in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of Ajax . Opus was also the birthplace of Patroclus . See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar's Ninth Olympian See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

Ode is mainly devoted to the See also:

• GLORY (through the O. Fr. glorie, modern gloire, from Lat. gloria, cognate with Gr. KXebs, abets)

glory and traditions of Opus . Its founder was Opus the son of See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus and Protogeneia, the daughter of an Elian Opus, or, according to another version, of See also:

• DEUCALION

Deucalion and Pyrrha, and the wife of Locros . The Locrians deserted the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side in the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian See also:

• WARS

Wars; they were among the See also:

• ALLIES, THOMAS WILLIAM (1813-1903)

allies of See also:

• SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)

Sparta in the Peloponnesian See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . In the struggle between See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip V. of Macedon and the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans the town went over to the latter in 197 B.C., but the See also:

• ACROPOLIS (Gr. aKpos, top, a6)Xts, city)

Acropolis held out for Philip until his defeat at Cynoscephalae (See also:

• LIVY [Thus L1v1us] (59 B.C.—A.D: 17)

Livy xxxii . 32) . The town suffered from earthquakes, such as that which destroyed the neighbouring Atalante in 1894 .