Orontes, the largest river of Syria, which has it's source not far from the ancient Seleucia, Pieria, and Mount Lebanon, and flows past Antioch, into the Mediterranean Sea. - On a Greek colonial coin of Trajan, a figure personifying the Orontes, is seen emerging, with extended arms as if swimming at the feet of the Genius of Antioch, who is sitting on a hill, the rocky features of which indicate the lofty site of that city. - "The Antiochians (says Vaillant) commemorated by this medal the visit of Trajan to their town." - See Antioch.