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nius and poetical fire. Buchanan, in Tome of his lyric 
compofitions, is very elegant and clafiical. “ Among the 
French, the odes of Jean Baptifte Rouffeau have been 
much and juftly celebrated. They poffefs great beauty 
both of fentiment and expreflion. They are animated, 
without being rhapfodical; and are not inferior to any 
poetical productions in the French language. In our 
own language we have feveral lyric compofitions of confi- 
derable merit. Dryden’s Ode on St. Cecilia is well known. 
Mr. Gray is distinguished in fome of his odes, both for 
tendernefs and fublitnity; and in Dodfley’s Mifcellanies, 
feveral very beautiful lyric poems are to be found. As 
to profeffed Pindaric odes, they are, with a few excep¬ 
tions, fo incoherent, as to be feldom intelligible. Cowley, 
at all times harfh, is doubly fo in his Pindaric compofitions. 
In his Anacreonic odes he is much happier; they are 
fmooth and elegant, and, indeed, the molt agreeable, 
and the molt perfeCt, in their kind, of all Mr. Cowley’s 
poems.” In thofe odes, fays Dr. Johnfon, where Cowley 
choofes his own Subjects, he fometimes rifes to dignity 
truly Pindaric. Jolmfon's Lives. Breton's Nouveaux Ele- 
mens de Litter at ure, 1813. 
O'DED, [Heb. to hold.] A prophet of the Lord, who 
being at Samaria when the Ifraelites of the ten tribes re¬ 
turned from the war, with their king Pekah, together 
with 200,000 of the people of Judah captives, he went 
out to meet them, and faid “ You havefeen that theLord 
God of your fathers was in wrath againft Judah ; he has 
therefore delivered them into your hands, and you have 
ilain them inhumanly, fo that your cruelty has afcended 
tip into heaven ; and more than this, you would make 
fiaves of the children of Judah, who are your brethren, 
and would add this fin to the many others you have com¬ 
mitted. Therefore, hear the counfel that I give you ; 
fend back thefe captives, left the Lord ftiould pour out 
his fury upon you.” Oded having done fpeaking, fome 
of the chiefs of Samaria feconded him, and, by their re- 
monftrances, prevailed with the Ifraelites to fet the cap¬ 
tives at liberty. 2 Chron. xxviii. 6-15. The enlargement 
' of the captives being obtained, the principal men of Sa¬ 
maria took care of them, gave them clothes and food, 
and other necefl'ary alliftance. After which they fur¬ 
nished them with horfes, becaufe the greateft part of 
them were fo tired and exliaufted, that they were not able 
to walk. Thus they conduiled them to Jericho, which 
was on the confines of the land of Judah. This is all that 
is come to our knowledge concerning the prophet Oded. 
ODEG'NO,a town of France, in the department of the 
Tanaro : fourteen miles eaftof Ceva. 
O'DEH, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubaJa of Agimere: 
fourteen miles eaft of Rantampour. 
ODEHILL', a village in BecTfordlhire, near the Oufe, 
north-weft of Bedford, near Shambrook; with a fair on 
the 13th of May. Here was formerly a caftle. 
ODEI'DA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men : eighty miles nortli-eaft of Aden. 
ODELL' (Thomas), an English dramatic writer, and 
deputy-mafter of the revels, born in Buckinghamshire ; 
died in the year 1749. He brought four dramatic pieces 
on the ftage, all of which met with fome Share of fuccefs. 
O'DELET, f. A little ode ; a Short ode. Ajh. 
ODEMI'RA, a town ofPortugal, in Alentejo : twen¬ 
ty-four miles fouth-weft of Ourique, and thirteen fouth- 
eaft of Sines. 
O'DEN HO'TUN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of 
Corea: 425 miles eaft of Peking. Lat. 40. 13. N. Ion. 
324. 55. E. 
ODENA'TUS, King of Palmyra, was originally a na¬ 
tive and a leading inhabitant of that commercial city ; but 
fome call him a prince of a tribe of Saracens who dwelt 
in the neighbourhood of the Euphrates. After Sapor 
king of Perfia had rendered himfelf formidable through¬ 
out the Eaft by the defeat and capture of the Roman em¬ 
peror Valerian, A. D. 260, he received from Odenatus a 
prefent of Several camels laden with rich merchandife, ac- 
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companied with a fubmiftive letter, proteftingthat he had 
never borne arms againft the Perfians. “ Who is this 
Odenatus, (cried the haughty Sapor,) that he prefumes 
to write to me ?” At the Same time he ordered his pre- 
fents to be thrown into the river, and told his ambaffa- 
dors, that he meant, for his inSolence, to go and extermi¬ 
nate him, with his whole family ; but that, if he would 
come with his hands tied behind his back, and proftrate 
himfelf at the foot of the throne, his prefumption might 
poifibly obtain forgivenefs. Odenatus had too much Spi¬ 
rit to endure this arrogant meffage ; and immediately, 
cohering an army from his countrymen and the Arabs 5 
of the defert, he declared for the Romans, and joined the 
general Balifta. To him is afcribed the fuccefs of an ex¬ 
pedition in which part of Sapor’s treafure, and feveral of 
his wives, were captured ; and fo cloSely did he prefs upon 
the Perfian, that he forced him to retreat, and cutoft’his 
rear in paffing the Euphrates. After thefe exploits, Ode¬ 
natus affumed the title of king of Palmyra, and elevated 
to the rank of queen his wife, the celebrated Zenobia. 
Gallienus, the fon and colleague of Valerian, entrufted 
the brave Palmyrene with the chief command of the 
Roman armies in the eaft. In this quality, he en¬ 
tered Mefopotamia, recovered Nifibis and Carrhse, gave 
Sapor a defeat in his own country, and laid fiegetotte- 
iiphon. Thus he had the fatisfaftion of making the 
haughty Perfian fully repent the indignity with which he 
had treated him. 
In the following confufions of the Roman empire, when 
fuch a number of rivals to Gallienus arofe, that the pe¬ 
riod is.popularly called that of the thirty tyrants, Ode¬ 
natus preferved his fidelity, and kept the Eaft in a 
ftate of tranquillity, by destroying two of the revolted 
leaders who had entered his diftridt. On this account, 
he was created Augustus and partner in the em¬ 
pire by Gallienus, A. D. 264. and money was coined in 
his name, in which he was figured dragging Perfians in 
chains. Zenobia was dignified with the title of Aug-ujia, 
and their children with that of CceJ'ar. He made a Second 
incurfion into the territories of Sapor, ravaged the coun¬ 
try with fire and fword, and is Said to have taken the 
royal city of Ctefiphon. On returning from this expe¬ 
dition, he marched againft the Goths or Scythians, who 
had invaded Afia, and advanced as far as Cappadocia, 
whence they retreated on his approach. Soon afterwards 
he fell a victim to domestic treafon, the circumstances of 
which are variously related. It appears, that he had in¬ 
troduced difcord into his family, by the predileffion he 
Showed for Herodes, his fon by a former wife, which Ze¬ 
nobia bore with impatience. At this time, his nephew, 
Maeonius, at a hunting-party, two or three times Shot at 
the game before him. Odenatus, offended at this want 
of relpeft, took his horfe from him, and, upon his mena¬ 
cing exprefiions on account of the affront, threw him into 
chains. Maeonius, determined upon revenge, as foon as 
he was at liberty formed a confpiracy againft his uncle ; 
and, during the feftive celebration of his birth-day, killed 
him, together with his fon Herodes. The latter circum¬ 
stance has probably caufed Some fufpicion to fall upon 
Zenobia. This tragedy is Said by Zollmus to have been 
adted as Emefii; and the date is fuppofed to have been 
the year 267. It is univerfally agreed that Odenatus was 
a prince of great qualities, who well deferved the high 
rank to which he had raifed himfelf. Univ. Hijl. Gibbon. 
O'DENBACH, late a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of Mont Tonnerre : one mile South of Meiffenheim. 
O'DENKIRCHEN, late a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Roer, and chief place of a canton, in the 
cliffridh of Creveldt. The place contains 16,295 inhabi¬ 
tants. 
ODENSA'LA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Upland : fourteen miles fouth-eaft of Upfal. 
ODENSEE', a town of Denmark, and capital of the 
island of Funen, fituated on a river which runs into a 
large bay about a mile from the town. It is a place of 
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