va 
ov! 
them as oppofite, and has led fome botanifts to think the 
whorled plant a new fpecies. O. mitis is the only {pecies he 
ever os even ina dried ftate, 
OVIEDO, AnpbBEs pk, in cise aan mee of Hiero- 
polis, and patriarch of Ethi was born at Ilhecas, a 
town fituated half way between Madrid and Toledo. 
graduated at Alcala, vd then wert to Rome, where, in the 
year 1541, he entered the fociety of Jefuits, then only in 
its infancy. hen Joam III. founded the firit Jefuit 
in thefe fituations he performed the duties required of him 
with exaGtnefs, and inflited upon himfelf the moft fevere 
mortifications. ‘ Thus far,”? fays Mr. Southey, ‘“ his 
talents had been well employed; but when Loyola nom- 
nated him as coadjutor and fucceffor to Joam Nunez Bareto 
in the Abyflinian miffion, he miftook the charaéter . are 
A ftatefman was wanted, not a fanatic.” He was confe- 
crated bifhop of Hieropolis, and with iene lugs 
he ufed to fetch water for the college. In 1556 he and 
Bareto fet fail, and reached Goa in little more than four 
months. The affairs of Abyffinia at this time were in fo 
unprofperous a ftate, that it was not thought expedient for 
the patriarch to proceed thither ; he was therefore detained 
at Goa, while Oviedo, with his five companions, was fent 
forward on the miffion. They landed at Arkeeko five days 
only before that fort was taken poffeffion of by the Turks. 
On his way to court, Oviedo was welcomed by the Portu- 
guefe, and received with — mark of re{pect and honour: 
the reigning prince, who 
have returned to India, but was perfuaded by me country- 
en, who were fettled in Abyflinia, not to leave them. 
At length Oviedo and the other Jefuits excited a rebellion 
in the country, and though they were fuccefsful in their at- 
tempts to injure and harafs the exifting government, yet 
their ftay in the country was thought fo fruitlefs, that 
orders came from Rome for them to go to Japan. 
the death of Bareto, Oviedo had now fucceeded a the vain 
title of patriarch, but now he had no poffible means of 
getting away from Abyffinia, and fo completely deltitute 
was he of all European conveniences, that the letter which 
he contrived to fend t was written upon flips of 
paper cut from the margin of his brevia He lingered 
ut the remainder of his days in obfcurity, and died in 
X es having been twenty years employed in a miffion, for 
which he was in no refpe& properly qualified. Gen. Bio 
DE, one of the earliett 
isa at Madrid in 1478. 
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paniola, where he emt years, and wrote the “ Hif- 
toria General de Indias.” in fifty books, Twenty- 
e of thefe were painted at Seville in 1535, and at Sala- 
manca in 1547. mmary of this work, which Ovie 
w up for the emperor Charles is inferted in Barcia’s 
colleGtion of the «* Hiftoriadores Primitivos de las Indias 
Occidentales.’? s fummary contains the moft decifi 
age concerrng the importa‘ion of « Syphillis’” from 
America, that is any where to be foun He wrote two 
tracts concerning the «* Palo de Guayacan,” and the * Palo 
Santo,” tranflations of which are in the fir volumes of 
Ovi 
Oviepo, — Geogra . an pe town of Spain, 
the only city and the capital of t riaofitsname. It is 
fituated on a plain, rather anor : Ne confluence of the 
two little rivers Ovia or ora, the former of which 
ning to the N., and the fecond to the Some, 
without fufficient authority, have made Oviedo the « Lucus 
fturum ;”’ others have deduced its name from the Ovia, 
after Froila, the grandfon of Pelagius, had built it in 757; 
and according to others again, 1t was fo confiderable in 
the time of Pelagius, that after his firft acceffion he made 
it the chief place of his ftates, and transferred to it 
the bifhopric was elevated into an archbifhoric by the pope; 
which dignity was sa ibabaley transferred to the church of 
d well paved ; the princi- 
pal {quare is handfome and irae, and almoit all the ftreets 
open into it, an e market is held there. The publie 
edifices are a Gothic cathedral, faid to be built by Fr Fila I. 
in ee “ containing a rich treafury of valuable vafes, relics 
ments, and the bones of 14 kings and queens ; the 
Seti church of San Salvador, built by a prince named 
Sito, who flourifhed in 774, and enriched by a great number 
of me ics ; the univerfity, which is confidered one of the hand- 
fomeft ornaments of the town; and the aquedu& of forty 
arcades. Oviedo has little commerce ; it has two tan- yards 
a manufactory of hats, one of horn-combs and bone but. 
tons, and a grand magazine of arms for the army $ 47 
miles N, of Leon. N. lat. 43° 19’. W. long. 5° 57’, 
OVILIA, or Serra, in Ancient Rome, a place in the 
Campus Martius, at firft railed in likea fheep’s pen ; whence 
its name. 
Afterwards it was mounted with marble, and beautified 
ies walks and galleries ; as alfo witha tribunal, or feat of 
juftice. 
Within this precin&, or inclofure, the people were called 
to give their {uffrages for the eleétion of ma agiftrates. 
The afcent into the ovilia was not by fairs, but by pontes; 
a fort of bridges made for the time; every curia, tribe, 
and century, as the aflembly was centuriate or tribute, &c, 
SS - proper bridge. 
e the proverb, de ponte dejiciendus, ae a aie 
is to be debarred from giving his vote. Com 
OUINE , oF SHELBURNE Bay, in Can aphy Wy a 
bay on the E. fide of ee Caplan which fets up foutherly, 
through the town of a meen in Vermont, into the 
noes part of Shelburn 
OUINIC TAGAN, a lake of Lower er 138 
miles N. of Quebec. N. lat. 5 0°. W. long. ee 
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