or OARISTYS, a term in the Greek poetry, signifying a dialogue between a husband and his wife; such as that in the sixth book of the Iliad between Hector and Andromache.

Scaliger observes, that the oaristus is not properly any particular little poem, or entire piece of poetry; but always a part of a great one. He adds, that the passage now cited in Homer is the only proper oaristus extant in the ancient poets.