proper nounOmphălēOMPHALE☆ KeepMeaninga queen of LydiaLewis & Short 1879ModernAs printed, 1879OMPHALELEWIS & SHORTOMPHALEOmphălē, ēs, f., = Ὀμφάλη, I. a queen of Lydia, whom Hercules served, Hyg. Fab. 32; Prop. 4, 10, 17; Ov. F. 2, 305; Stat. Th. 10, 646; cf. Preller's Gr. Mythol. 2, p. 158.Read the whole entryIn the Academy Smith's classical dictionariesBiography & mythologyOmphaleOmphale (Ὀμφάλη), a daughter of the Lydian king Jardanus, and wife of Tmolus, after whose death she undertook the government herself. When Heracles, i…