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rex Italiae by a contemporary writer (VictorVit. ubi supra), but this is probably a descrip-tion and not a formal title. Insecure as theposition of his successor was, that of Odovacarwas far more so. The former was hereditaryking of a united and organized nation, whileOdovacar could only rely on the support of thearmy, composed of fragments of different anddiscordant tribes.

The authorities for his history are verymeagre and fragmentary. The principal arethe chronicle known as Anonymus Cuspiniani(Aw. Cusp.), the fragments discovered by Valois(Aw. Val.), Jordanes (ed. Mommsen 1882), Cas-siodorus ( Chronicon ) ; and especially John ofAntioch, many fragments of whose history arepublished in Muller’s Fragmenta Hist. Graec.iv. (Ant. M.), and others, including one of greatvalue, by Mommsen in Hermes vi. (Ant. H.).Modern accounts of Odovacar are given byTillemont, Emp. vi., Gibbon, ch. 36, 39, Pahn,Die Konige der Germanen ii., and a very full oneby Pallmann ( Geschichte der Volherwanderungii.). Mr. Hodgkin’s Invaders of Italy gives anexcellent account of his history up to A.D. 477.The relation of the different authorities hasbeen examined by Waitz ( Nachrichten , Gottingen,1865-81, and Holder-Egger, A. Archiv , i. 215).

[F. D.]

ODOARIUS, first bishop of Lugo, after itsrecovery from the Mahommedans. He had fledbefore the invaders, and after long banishment,on the recapture of Lugo by Alphonso I., re-turned there with a number of his retainers andothers, rebuilt the city, which he found wastedand uninhabited, and became bishop of it. Hebuilt various churches, and settled his retainersin various villages in the surrounding country,and planted vineyards and orchards. Two willsof his are extant, one of which is dated in a.d.747, in which he styles himself “ Archiepisco-pus.” By them he gave the villages andchurches he had founded to the see of Lugo.He also assisted in repeopling Braga after itsrecovery. According to an ancient Kalendar, hedied on September 21st, 786. (Asp. Sag. xl. 89;Gams, Kirchengeschichte von Spanien , ii. (2),251.) [F. D.]

ODOBECCUS. [Edobichus.]

ODRENE (Odrinus, Huidhreini, IIui-DREN), bishop of Moville, co. Down, died A.D.694. (Ann. Ult. a.d. 693; Reeves, Fed. Ant.152; Cotton, Fast. Hib. iii. 219.) [J. G.]

ODUINUS, a presbyter, to whom Aleninaddressed his epistle De Baptismi caeremoniis(Pat. Lai. ci. 611). [C. a.]

ODULFUS (Audulfus, Aotolfus), count,a friend of Alcuin, who asks Arno archbishopof Salzburg to remind him to be just injudgment and merciful to the poor (Ep. 153,Froben. 113, and notes in Pat. Lat. C. 403 a).The letter belongs to the year 805, when Odulfuswas a missus regius conjointly with Arno (vid.the second capitulary of that year, capit. 7, inBaluze, Capitularia, t. i. p. 425; and Meichel-beck’s Historia Frisingensis, t. i. p. 2, Instrum.118, 123, pp. 90, 93). He died in 819, as re-corded in the Breves Annales Batisponenses,given by Mabillon (Vetera Analecta , 1723,P- 368). [C. II.]

OEDILRAEDUS, and OETHILRAED

(Kemble, C. D. 35). [Hodilred.] [C. H.)

OEGETCIIAIR, bishop of Mahee Island, co.Down, died a.d. 735. (Ann. Ult. A.D. 734,calling him Oedgedcar. See also Reeves, Eccl.Ant 149; Cotton, Fast. Hib. iii. 218.) [J. G.]

OENGUS (1) (Aenghus), son of Tibraideor Tipraite, priest or abbat of Cion fad, countyWestmeath, is known only for his hymn inpraise of St. Martin, written in the Irish cha-racter and in rude latinity ; it is printed withnotes by Dr. Todd ( Book of Hymns, Ease. ii. 171sq.). From the Scholiast’s Preface we learnthat it was written in expectation of a visitationof the churches of St. Colum-cille in Ireland bythe abbat of the parent house, St. Adamnan,probably at the close of the 7th century Hedied a.d, 746. (Ann. Ult a.d. 745.) [J. G.]

OENGUS (2), son of Crunnmhael, abbat ofDuleek, co. Meath, died A.D. 783. (Ann. Ult.A.D. 782.) [J. G.]

OENGUS (3), son of Urguist king of thePiets. His name assumes many forms— Angus,Oengus, Hungus, Ungus, Unust, Uidnuist,[Jnuist (Skene, Chron. 496; M. H. B. 288,662-3). He was one of the most powerfulkings of Pictavia and Hungus of the Legend ofS. Andrew, but it antedates the occurrence byfour centuries. (Skene, Chron. pass.; Innes,Crit. Ess. i. 101 sq.) [Hungus.] [J. G.]

OENNA, Jan. 20, Mac ua Laighisi, abbatof Clonmacnoise, King’s County, succeeded thefounder St. Ciaran, a.d, 549, and died a.d. 570(Ann. Tig., as Aengusius; Gams, Ser. Ep. 212)as a bishop. (O’Hanlon, Ir. SS. i. 382.) [J. G.]

OFELLUS, bishop of Cleopatris in Egypt.Mentioned in the paschal letter of Theophilus,bishop of Alexandria for the year 404 (translatedby Jerome, and forming Ep. 100 in his -works),as then recently appointed. [W. II. F.]

OFFA (1), the youngest son of Ethelfrith,king of Northumbria (a.d. 593-617), by hissecond wife Acha, daughter of Ella and sister ofEdwin (Symeon Dunelm. ed. Surtees Soc. i. 209,218). During the reign of Edwin, Offa and hisbrothers took refuge in Scotland, and several ofthem, at least, were baptized at Iona (Id. 210 ;Beda, iii. 3; Vita S. Columbae , i. 113; S. C. 20,43). They returned on the death of Edwin, butwe hear no more of Offa. [J. R.]

OFFA (2), a son of Aldfrith, king ofNorthumbria (a.d. 685-705). His mother,

probably, was Cuthburh, sister of Ina, king ofWessex. Symeon of Durham (H. B. sub anno750, and H. E. Dunelm. ii. 17) tells us that toescape from his enemies, he fled for protection tothe body of St. Cuthbert at Lindisfarne, whencewhen half-dead with hunger, he was dragged outand slain. He had probably incurred theanimosity of Eadbert, king of Northumbria,who also imprisoned Kynewulf bishop of Lindis-farne, and put his see in commission. The kingwas probably affronted with the bishop forallowing Offa to take sanctuary (Pref. to Symeon,II. B. ed. Surtees Soc. xvii.-xviii.). [J. R.]