were, according to Strabo, excellent baths, and salutary waters, at the foot of the Pyrenees in Aquitania. Near the river Aturus stands at this day the town Bagnères, famous for its waters, which appear to be the Onkeia of Strabo: situated in the county of Bigorre in Gascony, near the river Adour.

ONIAE oppidum and Templum, (Josephus); so called from Onias, the high-priest of the Jews in Egypt; who built a temple in imitation of that at Jerusalem, by permission of the king of Egypt, on the spot where stood the temple of Diana Agretilis in Leontopolis: it was encompassed with a brick wall, and had a large tower like that at Jerusalem (Josephus); it was the metropolis of the Nomos Heliopolites, (Ptolemy); because in Strabo's time Heliopolis was fallen to decay.