Orontes
From LSJ
πῶς δ' οὐκ ἀρίστη; τίς δ' ἐναντιώσεται; τί χρὴ γενέσθαι τὴν ὑπερβεβλημένην γυναῖκα; (Euripides' Alcestis 152-54) → How is she not noblest? Who will deny it? What must a woman have become to surpass her?
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
(River) Ὀρόντης, -ου, ὁ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Ŏrontes: is or ae (
I gen. Oronti, Verg. A. 1, 220), m., = Ὀρόντης.
I The principal river of Syria, now Nahr El-Ashy, Mel. 1, 12, 5; Plin. 5, 21, 18, § 79; Prop. 2, 23 (3, 17), 21.—Hence, Ŏrontēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Orontes, Orontian; poet. for Syrian: Orontea myrrha, Prop. 1, 2, 3.—
II A chief of the Lycii and companion of Æneas, Verg. A. 1, 113; 220.
