Ŏrontes

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.