Omphalium

OMPHA´LIUM(Ὀμφάλιον), a plain in Crete, so named from the legend of the birth of the babe Zeus from Rhea. The scene of the incident is laid near Thenae, Cnossus, and the river Triton. (Callim. Hymn. ad Jov. 45 ; Diod. 5.70; Schol. ad Nicand. Alexipharm. 7; Steph. B. s. v.;Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 11; 404; Pashley, Trav. vol. 1. p. 224.)

OMPHA´LIUM(Ὀμφάλιον), one of the inland cities of the Chaones in Epeirus. (Ptol. 3.14.7.) Stephanus B. (s. v.) erroneously calls it a city of Thessaly. Leake places it at Premedí, in the valley of the Viósa(the Aous). ( Northern Greece, vol. 4. p. 120.)