OZOLÆ, or OZOL, a people who inhabited the eastern parts of Ætolia which were called Ozolea. This tract of territory lay at the north of the bay of Corinth, and extended about 12 miles. They received their name from the bad stench (ὄζος) of their bodies and clothes, which were the raw hides of wild beasts. Some derive it from the stench of the stagnated water in the neighbouring lakes and marshes. According to a fabulous tradition, they received their name from a very different circumstance: During the reign of a son of Deuealion, a bitch brought into the world a stick instead of whelps. The stick was planted into the ground by the king, and it grew up to a large vine, and produced grapes, from which the inhabitants of the country were called Ozolea, not from ὄζος, "to smell bad," but from ὄζος, "a branch or sprout." The name Ozolea, on account of its indelicate signification, was highly disagreeable to the inhabitants; they therefore exchanged it soon for that of Ætolians.