OST 
fometimes gi fometimes oo ; very thin, white, with 
red or bluei = ete or ma 
OVALIs. Shell oval, very t thi nd terminating in a 
fhort acute lateral channelled beak ; ” with obfolete, unequal, 
T tg thell i is about an ae long, brittle, 
Sheil roundifh, eee very a A gree 
upper valve terminating in a fhort acute beak. s found 
firmly fixed with the ree tintinnabulum 
NNULATA. he shail eebiedler: white, with con- 
centric femicircles. n the North feas. 
Rete USA. g, white, glabrous, 
ftriate; with a b remote from the hinge. 
This is * Mfo found i in the North feas 
C. Hinge with a sepiendiedte grooved line. 
Perna. Shell equivalve, obovate, unequal, rounder at 
one en 
IsocNomum ‘ Shell equivalve, with a larger lobe, nearly 
ing a right angle with e re are four 
; from five to fix inches long, and about 
one inch and three quarters broad in the middle; fhell black, 
with a violet mixture, -~ pearly within ; lamellate, with 
an open beak ; a very r ell. 
EPHIPPIUM. Shell equivalre, orbicular, compreffed, 
membranaceous. Found in the Indian ocean and Cape of 
Good Hope; very rare. The fhell is about five inches 
long, five and a half broad, blackifh, furruginous or pur- 
plith, and pearly within ; roundith, lamellate, with a very 
acute margin 
Picra. 
Shell equivalve, thin, pellucid, and pointed at 
the hinge, ag other end di 
acute. It 
and above two inches long; near the knob is a hwvid fp 
ALATA. fas Wt flat, brittle, pellucid, and dilated to- 
wards the margin ; rane wit e an fies a line ending in a 
{mall beak nit is fou 
MyTILoIDEs. Shell n ay equivaly e, ovate, ventricofe, 
ftraight. It is found in a foffile ftate in 
fo 
Torta. Shell equivalve, intorted: This alfo is found 
foffile in etl 
ES-LUT Shell equivalve, fmooth, wedge-fhaped, 
with fix sale plaits. Shell varied with purplifh and white, 
and marked with very fine isn cadiaal itriz ; the margin 
flightly {calloped 
ICH, | in ys See Strutiiio. 
OSTRICONI, in Geography, a town of the ifland of 
Corfica, aad a river of the fame name, which runs into the 
fea; 22 mi .5.W. of Baftia. 
TRITZ, or Worn, a town of Upper Lufatia, on 
the Neiffe; 7 miles S. of Gorlitz. N.lat.51°1'.  E. lor 
FosrROcoL, a town of Pruffia, in Natangen; 9 miles 
S.S.E. of L 
OSTROG, a town of Poland, in Volhynia, once the 
capital of a duchy, ceded to Poland in 1609 ; 38 miles 
N.N.W. of Conftantinov. 
, OSTROGOTHIA. e GOTHLAND 
widey ieweatok case or pe Cae 
nation given to thofe Goths, who, before they 
Ancient Hif. 
nett adeno 
 Seandnai inhabited the more eaftern parts near the Bal- 
0ST 
ar contradiftinGtion to the Weftrogoths, or Weftern Goths, 
o inhabited that Par art of Scandmavia which borders on 
Helier he n as afterwards appropriated to thofe 
Goths sien eftablifhed themfelves on the other fide of the 
Danub thus they were Aiingvithed from thofe = 
cmeeied fares weftward a: nonia, The 
A. ver erased to the Oftrogoths 
of Pannonia fon Sirmium, now Scrinifh, in 
Sclavonia, to Vindobona, now Vienna, in Auftria. They, 
as well as the other barbarians, coer the autho- 
n the Roman armies. 
Pannonia being pene to the Oftrogoths, the three bro- 
ers, who had previoufly reigned jointly, agreed to divide 
that country between them, Valemir fettling in the eaftern 
part of it, Theodomir in the weftern, and Videmir be- 
tween the other two. They were fcarcely eftablifhed in 
their new territories, when the fons of Attila, purfuing 
them even into Pannonia, fell upon Valemir in the vicinity 
Sirmium ; but that prince, with a {mall number of men, 
defeated them with great flaughter, and obliged them to 
ey in that part of Scythia, which bordered on the 
About eight years after, the Goths being en- 
ga - n a war with the Satage, one of Attila’s fons, avail- 
ing himfelf of that opportunity, entered Pannonia at the head 
of a confiderable army, having ravaged the country ; 
but the Goths, leaving the Satagz, marched with all 
their forcee againft the Huns, who received fuch a re- 
pulfe in their onfet, that they ever after nee? in awe of the 
Goths, and never offered to moleft ther 
In the year 455, the oe Leo, ne fing, under Meg 
rious pretences, to pay the Oftrogoths ee ufual pen 
they entered Tllyricum, and there aa readful 1 me 
vages; but Anthemius, the fon-in- law 
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bet ween the 
ower Moe took part with the Squiri, who were 
neverthelefs utterly ae The Squiri Bene affiftance, 
renewed the war, and laid watte the territories of the Goths 
toa great extent. The Goths, putting themfelves under 
the command of the two furviving brothers, Theodomir 
and Videmir, Valemir having been previoufly flain in battle, 
and engaging the enemy on the banks of the Danube, flew a 
reat number, and obliged the reft to retire beyond that river. 
Theodomir having gained great fuccefs in this ate Ter 
ceived, on his return, his fon Theodoric, whom Leo had fent 
ie with rich prefents, after having kept him as a hollige 
for ten years. Theodoric had immediately recourt to arma, 
_ flew the king of the dolecatn The hs 7 _Pan- 
onia determined to make n the empire, — OCr 
cata part of the Otrogoths joned the Viteoe: in ‘Gaal 
and affifted them in the c of that country, and ia 
the redu&tion of Spain, eerie one people with them. 
Q ‘Theodomir 
