OSP 
He received other inftances of church preferment, and was 
at length promoted to the bifhopric of Sylves by Catherine 
of Auftria, the duties of which high office he performed 
with the utmoft regularity and benevolence. ea king 
Sebaftian arrived at his majority, he determined to attempt 
the conqueft of Africa, againit which Oforio earneftly ad- 
monifhed and humbly entreated the king, forefeeing and pre- 
dicting the difaftrous confequences that would neceffarily re- 
fult state it. When he found his remonftrances unavailing, 
he went under various pretences to Rome, that he might not 
ie a witnefs to the calamities which he was fenfible were im- 
g over his country. He was favourably and refpe&- 
fully received by pope Gregory XIII. Sebaftian, though 
he would not follow the udvice of his prelate, could not bear 
lat he fhould be abfent from his country, and recalled him 
o Portugal within twelve months of his departure. 
faied: and almoft immediately received the fatal intelli- 
gence of the defttuction of his fovereign and his army in the 
battle of Alcazar againft the Moors. (See SEBASTIAN. ) 
We cannot enter into the miferjes in which the confequences 
of that battle involved Portugal, particularly after the death 
of king Henry. On this fate event, Oforio, always the 
bey of peace, advifed {ubmiflion to the claims of Philip IT., 
of Spain, to the crown, and he laboured to preferve 
= people of his diocefe from taking a part in the tumults 
which diftraéted and laid waite the kingdom. Thefe difor- 
ders he took fo much to heart, that it is faid he died with grief 
in the year 1580. He is highly fpoken of by Dupin, who 
fays ‘ he wrote with eafe and eloquence. He is entitled to 
the denomination of the Portugue/e Cicero, yr no writer 
has more clofely imitated that_ Roman, whether we regard 
his ftyle, his choice of fubjeCts, or his manner "of treating 
hem.” His w lar a numerous, partly political and partly 
theological. The latter chiefly confifted of paraphrafes on 
Job, the books of Poiae the book of Wifdom, and Ifaiah ; 
and Commentaries Rear atid of the books of the Old 
Teftament. His obje& 
is not fo much to aoe aie terms of the text as to extend 
the fenfe of it, and to fhew its order and feri Thefe 
works, with twenty-one fermons, were colleéted eae, and 
publifhed at Rome in 1592, in four volumes, by his nephew 
Evora, who alfo wrote a life of his uncle, 
e volu ove-nam The 
work, fay re Sou the General Bio hy, by 
which the bifhop of Sylves is beft known, in his hiftory 
‘ De Rebus Emmanuelis, Lufitanie a ? of whic 
new edition appeared in 1791 at Coim in three volumes 
Of this work, which is beautifully printed, there is 
nglifh o The of P 
a French tranflation and an 
adiz, in e Bo 
was opened the enfuing year, lo rd Efe ex gave fir 
Thomas Bodley a confiderable part of this colle@ion. Mo- 
reri. Gen. Biog 
OSORRO, a 1 Geography, a town of Chili, in a — 
abounding with gold mines, 40 miles S.E. of Valdivia. S. 
lat. 40°. W. long. 73° 40! 
_,O8080R a word ufed by fome authors as a name for 
*EOSPEDALETTO, one of the four renowned confer- 
OSS 
vatorios at Venice, of which Sacchini was the matter in 
1779. ‘The females educated there were all orphan girls; 
one of them, La Ferrarefe, had a voice of uncommon com- 
pafs at that time, as fhe was able to reach the: higheft 
E in our keyed-inftruments, upon which fhe could dwell a 
confiderable time, in a fair natural voice. But befides this 
was, in eve 
” compofe 
by — i, in an ee barges and sis ftyle. 
In the performan red drama, the Ferrarefe 
are a ering an admirable accom- 
= recitative with fuch ees and feeling as are feldom 
he 
OSPREY, in Ornithology. See Fatco Offfragus. 
R E, in Ancient Geography, a imall fate of 
Afia, which ean the northern and moft fertile part of 
Mefopotamia, between the Euphrates and the Tigris. Under 
the Seleucidz. a part of this country took the name of 
Mygdonia, with the title of kingdom. " polebias fpeaks 
of this kingdom in connection with Antiochus the Great. 
The capital of this kingdem was Edeffa ; which fee. The 
feeble fovereigns of Ofrhoene, placed on the dangerous verge 
of two contending empires, were attached from pai to 
the Parthian caufe; but the fuperior power o xact- 
ed from them a reluttant homage, which is ftill ree by 
their medals. After the conclufion of the Parthian war un- 
der Marcus, it was judged prudent to fecure fome fubftan- 
tial pledges of their doubtful fidelity. Forts were con- 
ftructed in feveral parts of the country, and a 
rifon was fixed in the ftrong town of Nifibis. 
troubles that followed the death of Commodus, the princes 
of Ofrhoene attempted to fhake off the yoke ; but the ftern 
policy of Severus confirmed their dependence, and the per- 
fidy of Caracalla eoaphied the feu conqueit, Abgarus, the 
laft ing, of Edeffa, (A.D. 216.) was fent in chains to 
Rome, his potion reduced i vo a province, - ie capi- 
tal dignified with the rank of colony; andt e Ro- 
mans, about ten years before he: fall of the Parthian n mo 
narchy, obtained a firm and permanent eftablifhment beyond 
the Euphrates. 
OSRUSHNAH, in Geography, a town of Turkeftan, 
which it giv es name; 65 miles 
at. 0° E. . 64° 30'. 
my, a te chn ical on eaviee a {peak- 
ing of the bones, ae ularly of - head, as offa ae offa 
{pongiofa, &c. e Bo 
Geography, a river chad Prufia, which runs into 
the Viftula, 15 ile, below 
OSSABA W, a 
A an ifland in ae Atlantic, near the coaft 
of Georgia, 20 miles in circumference. N. lat. 31° 42’. We 
eI Between this ifland and Great Waflaw is a 
ong. Ol I7. 
oe called Offabaw found. N. lat. 31° 43!.. W. long. 
grr r Osseni, a name oa given to the 
Jewith fe& of religion called Effenian 
OSSARA, in ee rere a a of Hindooftan in Mo- 
hurbunge; 18 miles pour. 
OS AT, jean 
ch: he w 
15 ban his na with t pre ung pe erfon 
Paris, where he carefully fipenueded their a aiid at 
the fame time taking care not to negle& his own ftudies. 
In philofophy he was a difciple of Ramus, and compofed i 
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