MtBOMT  wab  to  grwt  u  lo  prodsM  an  aztraonlurary  |
Innilitj  utd  •xc^llence  in  all  the  fniita  of  th«  eanfa
throughmit  iiaiy.    Hence  Ute  OpimiMi  wine  became'
famous  lo  a  laie  permd.    (  Vul.  faternua.)-

Une,  a  eUy  on  the  rirer  Tlgm,  in  Aiqrria,  west  of
Arteuit*.  1%  ia  probably- tbe  MOM^wiih  that  which
Pliny  calU  Antiochia.  (//n-mtoM,- 1,  lSO.~Xen.,
Amak.,  «,  *.—Ftimy,  6,  *7:)

OpiTCaeli'ii,  a  city  of  Venetia  in  Northern  Ttaly,
on  the  right  baiilt  of  the  river  Plavi«.  It  ia  now  Odet-
xo,  a  town  of  same  iMMiaequence. '  (^froAe,  S14.—
ihmy,  S,  IS.)  The  Ojiilergint  Montci  are-  in  the
oe«ghbmiriiood  of  this  placet  ■m'  uaong  them  riaos  the
UfiienUB  or  Limxm-

Urrla  Lh,  by  C:  Oppina,  a  tribune  of  the  eooi-
■tone,  A-U.C.  644).  It  required  that  no  woinao  shonld
hat*  in  her  drasa  aboTe  half  an,  ounce  of  goli\  nor
weat  a  garment  of  difiWreot  ooloura,  nor  ride  in  a  car-
ries*  in  the  city  or  in  any  town,  or  within  a  mile  of  it,
wmM  upon  occasion  of  a  public  sacdbce.  "niia
Min^teary  law  was  oMde  during  the  public  distresses
wnaeqjuwit  on  Hanmbel's  beitw  in  haly.  It  waa  re-
bmM  cightenn  yean  afMrwarC  on  the  petition  of  tho
Ronian  ladies,  though  strenoously  opfKnnd  by  Cato.
