in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Theffaly, extending from Thermopylae westward to the Sinus Ambracius, and in some measure cutting at right angles the mountainous country stretching out between Parnassus to the south, and Pindus to the north. At Thermopylae it is very rough and high, rising and ending in sharp and steep rocks, affording a narrow passage between it and the sea from Theffaly to Locris (Strabo), with two paths over it; the one above Trachis, very steep and high; the other through the country of the Aenianes, much easier and readier for travellers; by this it was that Leonidas was attacked in rear by the Persians (Pausanias). Here Hercules laid himself on the funeral pile (Silius Italicus, Ovid); the spot thence called Pyra (Livy), who says, that the extreme mountains to the cast are called Oeta; and hence the poets allege, that day, night, sun, and stars, arose from Oeta (Seneca, Statius, Silius Italicus, Catullus, Virgil's Culex)—circumstances which show the height of this mountain.

OETTING, a town of Germany, in Upper Bavaria, under the jurisdiction of Buckhausen. It is divided into the upper and the lower town, and seated on the river Inn, eight miles west of Buckhausen. E. Long. 12. 47. N. Lat. 48. c. There is a great resort of pilgrims to the old chapel.