Greek and Roman Antiquities

• Obba a bowl either of wood or earthenware, apparently broad at the bottom and narrowing towards
• Obeliscus is a diminutive of Obelus (ὀβελός), which properly signifies a sharpened thing, a skewer o
• Obligatio litterarum litterarum One of the four modes in which, according to Gaius (3.89), contractual obligati
• Obligationes Obligatio is defined by Justinian (Inst. 3.13, pr.) as juris vinculum, quo necessitate ads
• Obolus was the sixth part of a drachm [see PONDERA, DRACHMA], whether as weight or coin. As a sil
• Occupatio is the advisedly taking possession of a thing which belongs to no one (res nullius), with
• Ochlocratia the dominion of the rabble, or mob-tyranny, a name of later origin than the time of Aristo
• Ocrea a greave, a legging. A pair of greaves (κνημῖδες) was one of the six articles of armour wh
• October equus equus On the Ides of October in each year there was a race of bigae in the Campus Martius,
• Oenophorum a vessel for holding wine. It had two handles, as is clear from a passage (cited by Marqua
• Oikias dike dike (οἰκίας δίκη), an action to recover a house (like any other action where property was
• Olea OLIVA (ἐλάα, or, in older Attic and Trag., ἐλαία); OLEUM, OLIVUM (ἔλαιον); OLETUM, OLIVETU
• Oligarchia the government of a few, is a term the application of which by writers on political scienc
• Olla ant. AULA (Plaut. Aulul., passim), a word used much in the same sense as our word jar or p
• Olympia usually called the Olympic games, the greatest of the national festivals of the Greeks. It
• Olympias the most celebrated chronological era among the Greeks, was the period of four years which
• Opalia a Roman festival in honour of Ops (or Opis), which was celebrated on the 14th day before t
• Operis novi nuntiatio novi nuntiatio was a summary extra-judicial remedy provided by the edict against a person
• Opinatores were officers under the Roman emperors who were sent to demand arrears of the annona milit
• Oppidum originally the stronghold, commonly overlooking the plain (ob pedum), which served as a re
• Opson by etymology the nonfarinaceous part of a meal (that which was cooked), but by usage almos
• Oraculum . In the vast and varied system of practical religion which prevailed in Greece, oracles t
• Orationes principum principum Many of the orationes of the Roman emperors, such as are quoted by the Augustae
• Orator Cicero remarks (Or. Part. c. 28, 100) that a certain kind of causes belong to Jus Civile,
• Ordo properly the row, appears most clearly in its original concrete signification in the banks
• Orgyia a Greek measure of length, derived from the human body, was the distance from extremity to
• Orichalcum . During the first three centuries of the Roman Empire, and probably as early as the secon
• Orphica Whatever is to be said in any summary of the Orphic doctrines must start from Lobeck's gre
• Oschophoria an Attic festival, which as a vintage festival paid honour to Dionysus and Athena, the giv
• Oscilla were small figures or masks, representing either the whole human figure or a part of it, g
• Ostiarium one form of Tributum, Capitis [see VECTIGALIA]. A tax imposed in Cilicia, Syria, and perha
• Ostracinda a game which Greek boys played as follows:--Two sets stand opposite, divided by a line dra
• Ovatio a lesser triumph; the terms applied by the Greek writers on Roman history are πεζὸς θρίαμβ