Orontes, the principal river of Syria, rises in the western slopes of Anti-Lebanon, and flows northward through Syria, turning at last SW. to the Mediterranean; its course of 150 m. is through country in many parts well cultivated, past the towns of Hems and Hamah, and latterly through a woody ravine of great beauty.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ormuzd * Orosius, Paulus