ODE 
riety of long and fhort notes, which they apply without jel 
ard to the natural sata of pra fo that it 
conic our vocal mufic i ‘oem. 
mong the ancients, aa ‘fignified no more — 
with us, they are different things. The ancient oe were 
thofe of 
Anacreon, Sappho, &e. ngli ifh odes are generally 
or Saar in praife 7 = pe great exploits ; as thofe 
of Dry 
the delicacy of w ; the 
{cription of things apa “delightful i in themfelves. Variety of 
numbers is effentialto the ode. At firft, indeed, the verfe 
of the ode was but of one kind ; but for the fake of plea- 
fure, and the mufic to which they were fung, they by degrees 
fo varied the numbers and feet, that their kinds are now al- 
moft innumerable. 
lyric writers afflume to themfelves an extravagant 
common ear 
indar, the great father of lyric poetry, by the boldnefs 
and rapidity of his flights, has been the occafion of leading 
his imitators into fome of the ratte with which they are 
chargeable. is Pe age are 
$ poems is m 
have thought that the refemblance of his 
diforder and obfcurity was the beft method of imbibing and 
hocl 
cles, in feveral 
ublimit 
« Of all the writers of odes,” fay s Dr. Blair, “ ancient 
or modern, there is none that, in point of correctnefs, har- 
more when he 
ODE 
fingle word or epithet, he often conveys a whole cert eiey 
to the fancy. Hence he ever has been, and ever will 
of tafte. 
nown. Mr. Gr: is diftinguifhed in fome of his odes, 
both for tendernefs and fublimity ; and in Dodfley’s Mifcel- 
lanies, feveral very beautiful lyric =— are to be shai 
As to profefled Pindaric odes, they are, with a few 
tions, 5 incoherent as to be feldom ineligible. 
at all times harfh, is doubly fo in his Pindaric di eae 
is Anacreontic odes he is muc appier: they a 
fmooth and elegant, and, indeed, the moft agreeable, and 
the moft perfe&, in ad kind, of all Mr. Cowley’s poem 
thofe odes, fays nfon, where Cowley asks 
his own fubjeéts, he fometimes rifes to dignity truly Pin- 
aric. 
Opz, Aleaic. See Ac 
DEH, in ae ae a on of etait in the 
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fubah of Agimere; 14 miles E. of Rantampour 
ODEIDA, a eae of —s in the province of Ye. 
men; 80 miles . 
ODEN IRA, a town of Portage in Alentejo; 24 miles 
nd, 
with his hands tied behind him, folicited beck 
Odenatus fpurned the naar ante and colleéting a 
declared for the Romans. To h 
of an expedition, in which Sapor’s treafure, and feveral of 
his wives and children, were captured; and fo clofely ee 
he prefs upon the Perfian, that he forced him to retreat, and 
cut off his rear in pafling the Euphrates. After thefe ex- 
ploits, Odenatus aflumed the title of king of Palmyra, and 
elevated his wife, the celebrated Zenobia, to the rank of . 
ueen. Gallienus, the fon and colleague of Valerian, ey- 
trufted Odenatus with the chief command of the Roman 
army in the Eaft. In this quality he entered Mefopotamia, 
scanner Sapor in his own country, and laid fiege to Ctefi- 
Thus he had ample opportunity of making = 
hau cae Perfian repent of le indignity with which he h 
treated him. Jn the following diftraGted ftate of the omen 
mpire, when fuch a number of rivals to Gallienus arofe, 
that the period is called = the thirty tyrants, pa ae 
pe 
