122 OLIPHANT OR OLLYPHANT 
 
 
  Ole 'Stracted, a superannuated negro, 
formerly a slave, whose fancy is to wait in 
a hut on the old plantation for his master's 
return. He was "sold South" forty years 
before, and his young master promised to 
go down next summer and buy him back. 
The poor fellow has saved in these years 
twelve hundred dollars to pay for his free- 
dom. Unknown to himself or to them, 
his son and daughter-in-law minister to 
him in his last moments. He has put on 
his clean shirt, sure that "young marster" 
will come to-day. Rising to his feet he 
cries out: 
    "Heah de one you lookin' for, Marster! 
    Myymy-heah's Little Epbrum !" 
And with a smile on his face he sank back 
into his son's arms.-Thomas Nelson Page, 
In Ole Virginia (1887). 
 
  Olifant, the horn of Roland or Orlando. 
This horn and the sword "Durinda'na" 
were buried with the hero. Turpin tells 
us in his Chronicle that Charlemagne heard 
the blare of this horn at a distance of 
eight miles. 
 
   Olifant4(Basil), a kinsman of Lady Mar- 
garet Bellenden, of the Tower of Tillietud- 
lem.-Sir W. Scott, Old Mortality (time, 
Charles II.). 
 
  Olifaunt (Lord Nigel), of Glenvarloch. 
On going to court to present a petition to 
James I. he aroused the dislike of the 
-duke of Buckingham.     Lord Dalgarno 
gave him the cut direct, and Nigel struck 
him, but was obliged to seek refuge in 
Alsatia. After various adventures he mar- 
ried Margaret Ramsay, the watch-maker's 
daughter, and obtained the title-deeds of 
his estates.-Sir W. Scott, The Fortunes of 
Nigel (time, James I.). 
 
  Olim'pia, the wife of Bireno, uncom- 
 
 
promising in love, and relentless in hate. 
-Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516). 
 
   Olimpia, a proud Roman lady of high 
rank. When Rome was sacked by Bour- 
bon, she flew for refuge to the high altar 
of St. Peter's, where she clung to a golden 
cross. On the advance of certain soldiers 
in the army of Bourbon to seize her, she 
cast the huge cross from its stand, and as 
it fell it crushed to death the foremost 
soldier. Others then attempted to seize 
her, when Arnold dispersed them and res- 
cued the lady; but the proud beauty 
would not allow the foe of her country to 
touch her, and flung herself from the high 
altar on the pavement. Apparently life- 
less, she was borne off; but whether she 
recovered or not we are not informed, as 
the drama was never finished.-Byron, 
The Deformed Transformed (1821). 
 
  Olindo, the lover of Sophronia. Ala- 
dine, king of Jerusalem, at the advice of 
his magicians, stole an image of the Vir- 
gin, and set it up as a palladium in the 
chief mosque. During the night it was 
carried off, and the king, unable to dis- 
cover the thief, ordered all his Christian 
subjects to be put to death. To prevent 
this massacre, Sophronia delivered up her- 
self as the perpetrator of the deed, and 
Olindo, hearing thereof, went to the king 
and declared Sophronia innocent, as he 
himself had stolen the image. The king 
commanded both to be put to death, but, 
by the intercession of Clorinda, they were 
both set free.--Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, 
ii. (1575). 
 
  Oliphant or Ollyphant, the twin- 
brother of Argan'th, the giantess. Their 
father was Typheaus, and their mother 
Earth.-Spenser, Fa6ry Queen, iii. 7, 11 
(1590). 
 
 
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