Ŏrontes, is or ae (gen. Oronti, Verg. A. 1, 220), m., = Ὀρόντης.
I The principal river of Syria , now Nahr El-Ashy , Mel. 1, 12, 5; Plin. 5, 21, 18, § 79; Prop. 2, 23 (3, 17), 21.
II —Hence, Ŏrontēus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Orontes , Orontian; poet. for Syrian : Orontea myrrha, Prop. 1, 2, 3.—
II A chief of the Lycii and companion of Aeneas , Verg. A. 1, 113; 220.