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cof. 1598. [His knowledge of plants has been DIRE, the daughters of Acheron and Nox, reckoned superior to that of any other an- who persecuted the souls of the guilty. They cient writer: but Theophrastus must always are the same as the Furies, and some suppose be excepted as by far the more philosophi-that they are called Furies in hell, Harpies on cal botanist, and one by whose information earth, and Diræ in heaven. They were reDioscorides profited, as Pliny subsequently presented as standing near the throne of Jupidid from them both.] ter, in an attitude which expressed their eaDIOSCORIDIS INSULA, an island situate at gerness to receive his orders, and the power the entrance of the Arabic Gulf, and now of tormenting the guilty on earth with the called Socotora. [The aloes here produced most excruciating punishments. Virg. Æn. are held in more estimation than those of Ha-14, v. 173, 1. 8, v. 701.

dramaut. If we believe the Arabian writers, [DIRE, called also Dire and Dira, now the Alexander settled here a colony of Iounanion, straits of Bab-el-mandeb. The Greek name that is to say, of Greeks. Become christians, expresses a passage straitened in the manner they remained such, according to Marco Polo, of a throat; the modern appellation is Araat the close, of the 13th century.] bic, and means the port of mourning or afflic

DIOSCURI, or sons of Jupiter, a name given tion, from apprehensions of the risk of venturto Castor and Pollux. There were festivals ing beyond, into the expanse of a vast ocean.] in their honour, called Dioscuria, celebrated DIRCE, a woman whom Lycus, king of by the people of Corcyra, and chiefly by the Thebes, married after he had divorced AnLacedæmonians. They were observed with tiope. When Antiope became pregnant by much jovial festivity. The people made a Jupiter, Dirce suspected her husband of infifree use of the gifts of Bacchus, and diverted delity to her bed, and imprisoned Antiope, themselves with sports, of which wrestling-whom she tormented with the greatest cruelmatches always made a part. DIOSCURIAS, [a maritime town of Colchis, and brought forth Amphion and Zethus on ty. Antiope escaped from her confinement, at the mouth of the small river Charus. It mount Citharon. When these children were was afterwards called Sebastopolis, and was informed of the cruelties to which their moin the earliest ages the port most frequented in ther had been exposed, they besieged Thebes, Colchis by distant as well as neighbouring na-put Lycus to death, and tied the cruel Dirce tions, speaking different languages; a circum-to the tail of a wild bull, who dragged her stance which still distinguishes Iskuriah, over rocks and precipices, and exposed her whose name is only a corruption of the ancient to the most poignant pains, till the gods, pityone. Arrian makes it to have been establish-ing her fate, changed her into a fountain, in ed by a colony of Milesians. Pomponius Me-the neighbourhood of Thebes. [The fountain la, however, says that it was founded by Cas-Dirce is said by Pausanias to have emptied tor and Pollux, who made a voyage to Col-into the Ismenus. Near it Pindar had his chis, along with Jason, in the Argonautic ex-house.] According to some accounts, Anpedition.] Plin. 6, c. 28. DIOSPOLIS [magna, a famous city of before she was confined and exposed to the tiope was mother of Amphion and Zethus, Egypt. vid. Theba.- -parva, a city of tyranny of Dirce. vid. Amphion, Antiope. Egypt, west of Tentyra, and on the western Propert. 3, el. 15, v. 37.-Paus. 9, c. 26.— side of the Nile.- A town of Asia Minor in Elian. V. H. 12, c. 57.-Lucan. 3, v. 175, 1.4, Bithynia, on the coast of the Euxine, north-v. 550. east of Prusa.A city of Palestine, called also Lydda, and now Lod. It was situate in phya, a mountain of Bocotia, where the godDIRPHYA, a surname of Juno, from Diran extensive plain, and is placed by the itine-[dess had a temple.

rary of Antonine 33 miles from Jerusalem, Dis, a god of the Gauls, the same as Pluto and 36 miles from Cæsarea. It lay east of the god of hell. The inhabitants of Gaul supJoppa. This town suffered much during the posed themselves descended from that deity. civil wars of the second triumvirate. Cassius Cæs. Bell. G. 6.-Tacit. 4, Hist. c. 34. exposed the inhabitants to public sale, but Antony afterwards restored them to their of Nox, and sister to Nemesis, the Parca and DISCORDIA, a malevolent deity, daughter country.] Death. She was driven from heaven by JuDIOTIME, a woman who gave lectures upon piter, because she sowed dissensions among philosophy, which Socrates attended. Plut. the gods, and was the cause of continual quarin Symp. DIPOLIS, a name given to Lemnos, as hav- Thetis were celebrated, the goddess of disWhen the nuptials of Peleus and ing two cities, Hephæstia and Myrina. DIPSAS, (antis,) a river of Cilicia, flowing so irritated her, that she threw an apple into cord was not invited, and this seeming neglect from mount Taurus. Lucan. 8, v. 255.[A species of serpent, whose bite is said to inscription of detur pulchriori. This apple the midst of the assembly of the gods with the produce a most excessive thirst, and conse-was the cause of the ruin of Troy, and of inquently to prove mortal. Hence the Greeks finite misfortunes to the Greeks. (vid. Paris) called it as or thirsty. In Latin it is called, She is represented with a pale ghastly look, Bitula, a pail. Moses speaks of it in Deut. 8, her garment is torn, her eyes sparkle with

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fire, and in her bosom she holds a dagger oaks, and the doves which inhabited the place. concealed. Her head is generally entwined This fabulous tradition of the oracular power with serpents, and she is attended by Bellona. of the doves is explained by Herodotus, who She is supposed to be the cause of all the dis-observes that some Phoenicians carried away sensions, murders, wars, and quarrels, which two priestesses from Egypt, one of which arise upon earth, public as well as private. went to fix her residence at Dodona, where Virg. En. 8, v. 702-Hesiod. Theogn. 225. the oracle was established. It may further Petronius. be observed, that the fable might have been DITHYRAMBUS, a surname of Bacchus, founded upon the double meaning of the word whence the hymns sung in his honour were 1, which signifies doves in most parts of called Dithyrambics. [The measure, which Greece, while in the dialect of the Epirots, is what distinguishes this kind of poetry, is it implies old women. In ancient times the said to have been invented by Dithyrambus oracles were delivered by the murmuring of a a Theban. Pindar, however, and his scho-neighbouring fountain, but the custom was afliast, seem to consider this species of Poetry|terwards changed. Large kettles were susas so very ancient that its original inventor pended in the air near a brazen statue, which cannot be ascertained. Herodotus ascribes held a lash in its hand. When the wind blew it to Arion. Clemens of Alexandria, makes strong, the statue was agitated and struck the inventor to have been one Lassus or La-against one of the kettles, which communicatsus of Hermione. The ancients gave the ed the motion to all the rest, and raised that name of dithyrambics to those verses where clattering and discordant din which continued none of the common rules or measures were for awhile, and from which the artifice of the observed; much like those called by the priests drew their predictions. Some supFrench vers libres, by the Italians, versi pose that the noise was occasioned by the sciolti. The measure of the Greek dithyram-shaking of the leaves and boughs of an old oak, bics was very bold and irregular, the poets not which the superstition of the people frequentonly coined new words for the purpose, but ly consulted, and from which they pretended assumed a great license in the use of com-to receive oracles. It may be observed with pounds.] Horat. 4, od. 2. more probability that the oracles were deliDivi, a name chiefly appropriated to those vered by the priests, who, by artfully conwho were made gods after death, such as he-cealing themselves behind the oaks, gave ocroes, and warriors. casion to the superstitious multitude to beDIVITIACUS, [a nobleman of the Ædui, lieve that the trees were endowed with the who had great influence with Cæsar in conse-power of prophecy. As the ship Argo was quence of his steady attachment to the Ro-built with some of the oaks of the forest of mans.] Cic. 1, de Div. Dodona, there were some beams which gave DIUM, [vid. Dion.] oracles to the Argonauts, and warned them DIVODURUM, [the capital of the Medio- against the approach of calamity. Within the matrici, a people of Belgic Gaul, who were forest of Dodona there [was a famous founlocated along the Mosella or Moselle. Its tain, the peculiar properties of whose waters name was afterwards changed to that of the are mentioned below, in the article Dodone.] people itself, and is now Metz.] The oracles of Dodona were originally deliDODONA, [a famous city of Epirus, placed vered by men, but afterwards by women. by some writers in Thesprotia, and by others (vid. Dodonides.) Plin. 2, c. 103.-Herodot, in Molossis; but Strabo reconciles these dis-2, c. 57.—Mela, 2, c. 3.-Homer. Od. 14, Il. cordant opinions, by informing us that anciently-Paus. 7, c. 21-Strab. 17.-Plut. in Pyrrh. it belonged to Thesprotia, and afterwards to-Apollod. 1, c. 9.-Lucan. 6, v. 427.—Ŏvid. Molossis, for it stood on the confines of these Trist. 4, el. 8, v. 23.

two provinces. It was situate near the sources DŪDŌNÆUS, a surname of Jupiter from Doof the Acheron.] There was in its neigbour-dona. hood, upon a small hill called Tmarus, a ce- DODONE, a fountain in the forest of Dodolebrated oracle of Jupiter. The town and na. [Ancient naturalists state that it had a temple of the god were first built by Denca-property of rekindling torches, &c. when new. lion, after the universal deluge. It was sup- ly extinguished; which it is supposed to have posed to be the most ancient oracle of all done by means of some sulphurcous fumes exGreece, and according to the traditions of the haling from it, as we still find to be the case Egyptians, mentioned by Herodotus, it was with a fountain in France, called the burning founded by a dove. Two black doves, as he fountain. It is also said to have extinguished relates, took their flight from the city of torches, in which respect its powers do not Thebes, in Egypt, one of which flew to the seem to have been very miraculous, since temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to plunging them into a place where the sulphur Dodona, where with a human voice they ac- was dense, or into the water, would produce quainted the inhabitants of the country that that effect.]

Jupiter had consecrated the ground, which in DODONIDES, the priestesses who gave orafuture would give oracles. The extensive cles in the temple of Jupiter in Dodona. Acgrove which surrounded Jupiter's temple was cording to some traditions the temple was oriendowed with the gift of prophecy, and ora- ginally inhabited by seven daughters of Atlas, cles were frequently delivered by the sacred who nursed Bacchus. Their names were Am

brosia, Eudora, Pasithee, Pytho, Plexaure,, DOMITIA LEX de Religione, was enacted Coronis, Tythe or Tyche. In the latter ages by Domitius Ahenobarbus, the tribune, A. the oracles were always delivered by three U. C. 650. It transferred the right of electold women, which custom was first establishing priests from the college to the people. ed when Jupiter enjoyed the company of[The Pontifex Maximus and Curio Maximus Dione, whom he permitted to receive divine were, in the first ages of the republic, always honours in his temple at Dodona.] The Boo- chosen by the people.]

tians were the only people of Greece who re- DOMITIANUS, Titus Flavius [a Roman ceived their oracles at Dodona from men, for emperor, was the second son of Vespasian, reasons which Strabo 1. 9, fully explains. and born at Rome A. D. 5i. Vespasian, well DOLABELLA P. CORN. a Ronan who mar-aware of his natural disposition, reposed no ried the daughter of Cicero. During the civil confidence in him during his whole reign. wars he warmly espoused the interest of J.Domitian, however, accompanied his father Cæsar, whom he accompanied in the famous and brother Titus in their triumph at the battles at Pharsalia, Thapsus and Munda, He close of the Jewish war. Upon the death of was made consul by his patron, though M. Vespasian he endeavoured to foment troubles Antony his colleague opposed it. After the in the empire, and share the succession with death of J. Cæsar, he received the government Titus. The latter, however, generously forof Syria, as his province. Cassius opposed his gave him, treated him with great kindness, views, and Dolabella, for violence, and for the and made him his colleague in the consulship, assassination of Trebonius, one of Cæsar's always declaring to him that he intended him murderers, was declared an enemy to the re- for his successor. Domitian is accused of public of Rome. He was besieged by Cas-hastening the death of Titus by poison, a sius in Laodicea, and when he saw that all charge, however, not warranted by the circumwas lost, he killed himself, in the 27th year of stances of Titus's death. vid Titus.] The his age. He was of a small stature, which beginning of his reign promised tranquillity gave occasion to his father-in-law to ask him to the people, but their expectations were once when he entered his house, who had soon frustrated. Domitian became cruel, and tied him so cleverly to his sword. Another gave way to incestuous and unnatural indulwho conquered the Gauls, Etrurians, and Boii gences. He commanded himself to be called at the lake Vadimonis, B. C. 283.-The God and Lord in all the papers which were family of the Dolabella distinguished them-presented to him. He passed the greatest selves at Rome, and one of them, L. Corn. part of the day in catching flies and killing conquered Lusitania, B. C. 99. them with a bodkin, so that it was wittily an[DOLICHA, a town of Macedonia in the dis-swered by Vibius to a person who asked him trict Pelasgiotis. -A town of Syria, situate who was with the emperor, no body, not even in the district Euphratensis, and north-west a fly. In the latter part of his reign Domiof Zeugma. The ancient name is preserved tian became suspicious, and his anxieties were in that of Doluc, a castle on a chain of moun- increased by the predictions of astrologers, tains, which detached from Amanus, are pro- bnt still more poignantly by the stings of relonged towards the Euphrates.] BOLON, a Trojan, son of Eumedes, famous alone, that round the terrace, where he usumorse. He was so distrustful, even when for his swiftness. Being sent by Hector to ally walked, he built a wall with shining stone, spy the Grecian camp by night, he was seiz- that from thence he might perceive as in a ed by Diomedes and Ulysses, to whom he re-looking-glass whether any body followed him. vealed the situation, schemes, and resolutions All these precautions were unavailing, he peof his countrymen, with the hopes of escaping rished by the hand of an assassin the 18th of with his life. He was put to death by Dio-September A. D. 96, in the 45th year of his medes, as a traitor. Homer. Il. 10, v. 314. age, and the 15th of his reign. After his -Virg. Æn. 12, v. 349, &c. death he was publicly deprived by the senate DOLOPES, [a people of Thessaly, situate of all the honours which had been profusely to the south of the districts Thessaliotis and heaped upon him, and even his body was left Aperantia, and amid the range of Mount Pin-in the open air without the honours of a funedus. They are supposed to have formed one ral. This disgrace might proceed from the of the twelve nations or districts which sent resentment of the senators, whom he had deputies to the council of the Amphyctions. exposed to terror as well as to ridicule. He These people possessed the isle of Scyros; once assembled that august body to know and they are said to have been a body of Cor- in what vessel a turbot might be most convesairs who infested the gean sea. When niently dressed. At another time they reCimon took possession of their island he ex-ceived a formal invitation to a feast, and when pelled them from it. Their country was they arrived at the palace, they were intronamed Dolopia.] Virg. Æn. 2, v. 7.-Flacc. duced into a large gloomy hall hung with 2, v. 10.-Liv. 36, c. 33.—Strab. 9.-Piut. in black, and lighted with a few glimmering taCimon. pers. In the middle were placed a number DOMIDUCUS, a god who presided over of coffins, on each of which was inscribed the marriage. Jumo also was called Domiduca, name of some one of the invited senators. On from the power she was supposed to have in a sudden a number of men burst into the room marriages. clothed in black, with drawn swords and flam

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ing torches, and after they had for some time Oeta and Pindus. It was also called Tetraterrified the guests, they permitted them to polis from its four cities, viz Pindus, Erineus, reign was marked Cytineum, and Boiæum. The Dorians were retire. Domitian's among other excesses by a persecution of the a stout and warlike race, and formed a part Christians. Confounding Christianity with Ju- of the nation of the Hellenes. Under Deudaism, and feigning some defalcation in the calion, the Hellenes inhabited the territoThey were tributes due by his exactions to the imperial ry of Pathiotis ; under Dorus they first inhabittreasury, he commenced a violent persecution.ed the territory of Histianotis. Another reason is said to have been his fear driven thence by the Cadmeans, and moving that some of the posterity of David remained, south, finally settled in Doris. From this, as a and that at one period or other, they would central point, emigrated the various Doric coexcite the Jews, whom he did not distinguish lonies, one of which settled in the isle of from the Christians, to break out into rebel- Rhodes. After the Trojan war, the Dorians lion. This persecution took place A. D. 95, founded Megara, on the confines of Attica, and continued till the emperor's death. Some A. C. 1131. Others migrated to the shores have said that at this time, St. John was of Asia Minor, and established the famous thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil. Suet. in colony of Doris, in Asia Minor, on the coast of Caria. In process of time another stream vitâ.-Eutrop. 7. DOMITIUS DOMITIANUS, a general of Dio- of emigration directed its course towards cletian in Egypt. He assumed the imperial southern Italy and Sicily. vid. Græcia MagBut the country which may be regarded purple at Alexandria, A. D. 288, and support-na. ed the dignity of emperor for about two years. as the principal seat of their power was the He died a violent death Lucius. vid. Eno- Peloponnesus, of which they took possession barbus. Afer, an orator, who was preceptor under the conduct of the Heraclidæ, about to Quintilian. He disgraced his talents by his 80 years after the taking of Troy. The Headulation, and by practising the arts of an in-raclidæ divided among them the territories of former under Tiberius and his successors. the Peloponnesus reserving some few towns He was made a consul by Nero, and died A. to the Ionians upon the borders of Achaia. -A colony of the Dorians in Asia Minor, ELIUS DONATUS, [a grammarian who on the coast of Caria. On the arrival of the flourished in the time of Constantine, and was Dorians in Asia, they formed themselves into one of the preceptors of St. Jerome. He was six independent states or small republics, a commentator on the works of Virgil and which were confined within the bounds of so Terence, and the author of some grammatical many cities. These were Lindus, Jalyssus, pieces which are still remaining.]—A bish - Camirus, Cos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus. op of Numidia a promoter of the Donatists. Other cities in the tract, called from them Doris, belonged to their confederacy, but the A. D. 311. DONYSA, (an island of the Icarian sea, one inhabitants of these six alone, as true and of the Sporades. It lay south-east of Icaria, genuine Dorians, were admitted into the temand east of Patmos. The marble obtained ple at Triope, where they exhibited solemn from this island was green. Virgil and Melag mes in honour of Apollo Triopius. The call it Dionysa, others Dionusa. It is now prizes were tripods of brass, which the victors were obliged to consecrate to Apollo, and Donussa. Virg. Æn. 6, v. 125. DORES, the inhabitants of Doris. vid. Doris. leave in the temple. When Agasicles of Hali[DORIAS, a river of India extra Gangem. carnassus won the prize, he transgressed this Mannert makes it to correspond with the custom, and carried the tripods to his own small river Pegu. Others, however, are in house, on which account the city of Halicarfavour of the modern Zançan, the mouth of nassus was ever afterwards excluded from the Dorian confederacy: so that the Dorians which is in the kigdom of Tonquin.] DORION, a town of Thrace, where Tha-were from that time known by the name of myris the musician challenged the Muses to the five cities or Pentapolis, and no longer by Stat. Theb. 4, v. 82.-Pro- that of Hexapolis.]A goddess of the a trial of skill. sea, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She fert. 2, el. 22, v. 19.- Lucan, 6. v. 352. Her DORIS, a country of Greece, situate to the married her brother Nereus, by whom she south of Thessaly and separated from it by had 50 daughters called Nereides. the range of Mount Oeta. On the south it had name is often used to express the sea itself. the Locri Ozola. On the east it was parted Propert. 1, el. 17, v. 25.-Virg. Ecl. 10. Hefrom the Locri Epicnemidii by the Pindus, a siod. Theog. 240. DORISCUS, a plain of Thrace near the sea, branch of the Cephissus, and on the west from Ætolia by a part of the chain of Oeta. and mouth of the Hebrus, on which, accordThe mode of Its territory was of smali size, extending only ing to Herodotus, was a royal fortress. Here about 40 miles in length. The country, though Xerxes reviewed his army. mountainous, had still several beautiful plains, ascertaining the number of the forces was and was very fruitful. It was called 'Doris, this. They drew up in one place a body of 10,and the people Dores, from Dorus, the son 000 men; making these stand together as comof Hellen, and grandson of Deucalion, who is pactly as possible, they drew a circle around said to have peopled or conquered it, at least them. 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introduced the army by bodies of 10,000 men'now the Drave. Ptolemy calls it the Darus. each time. vid. Xerxes.] The Greek copyists frequently allowed themDORSENNUS, a comic poet of great merit selves the license of altering names and addin the Augustan age. Plin. 14, c. 13.-Horat. ing remarks, which only tended to shew their 2, ep. 10, 173. own ignorance. So in the present instance, DORSO, C. Fabius, a Roman, who when they state that this river, which Ptolemy calls Rome was in the possession of the Gauls, is- Darus, is the same with that named Daris by sued from the capitol, which was then be- the barbarians, or the modern Drin. The sieged, to go and offer a sacrifice, which was truth is, Ptolemy means the Dravus and no to be offered on mount Quirinalis. He dressed other.]

himself in sacerdotal robes, and carrying on DREPANE, [an ancient name of Corcyra.] his shoulders the statues of his country gods, DREPANUM, [a town of Sicily, north of passed through the guards of the enemy with- Lilybum, and in the vicinity of Mount Eryx. out betraying the least signs of fear. When Here Æneas, according to Virgil, lost his fahe had finished his sacrifice, he returned to ther, Anchises. Off this place, near the the capitol unmolested by the enemy, who Ægates Insula, was fought the famous naval were astonished at his boldness, and did not battle between the Romans commanded by obstruct his passage or molest his sacrifice. Lutatius Catulus, and the Carthaginians unLiv. 3, c. 46. der Hanno. The Romans gained a decisive

DORUS, a son of Hellen. (vid. Doris.] victory, which put an end to the first DORYLEUM and DORYLAUS, a city of Punic war. Drepanum was so called, from Phrygia, now Eski Shehr, [at the junction of the curvature of the shore in its vicinity, rethe Bathys and Thymbris, two branches of sembling a scythe, (dgeravov.) It is now Trathe Sangarius, and on the confines of Bithynia.] pani.A town of Bithynia, on the Sinus Plin. 5, c. 29-Cic. Flacc. 17. Astacenus, called by Constantine the Great,

DoSON, a surname of Antigonus, because Hellenopolis.A promontory on the Sinus he promised and never gave. Arabicus, below Arsinioe: it is now Ras-ZaDRACO, a celebrated lawgiver of Athens, frané.] Virg. Æn. 3, v. 707.-Cic. Ver. [who succeeded Triptolemus as legislator, B 2, c. 57.—Ovid. Fast. 4, v. 474.

C. 623.] When he exercised the office of DRILO, a river of [Illyricum,] which falls archon, he made a code of laws for the use into the Adriatic at Lissus.

of the citizens, which, on account of their se- DRIMACHUS, a famous robber of Chios. verity, were said to be written in letters of When a price was set upon his head, he orblood. By them, idleness was punished with dered a young man to cut it off and go and reas much severity as murder, and death was ceive the money. Such an uncommon indenounced against the one as well as the other., stance of generosity so pleased the Chians, Such a code of rigorous laws gave occasion that they raised a temple to his memory, and to a certain Athenian to ask of the legislator, honoured him as a god. Athen. 13. why he was so severe in his punishments, and [DROMUS Achillis, a promontory near Draco gave for answer, that as the smallest the mouth of the Borysthenes. According to transgression had appeared to him deserving of the old geographers, Achilles, having entered death, he could not find any punishment more the Euxine with a hostile fleet, after ravagrigorous for more atrocious crimes. These ing the coast, landed on this promontory, and laws were at first enforced, but they were of-exercised himself and his followers in running ten neglected on account of their extreme and other gymnastic sports. It is a low, severity, and Solon totally abolished them, sandy, and uninhabited neck of land, resemexcept that one which punished murder with bling somewhat a sword in its shape. Strabo death. [The Athenians could not endure the evidently exceeds the true measurement rigour of his laws, and the legislator himself when he states it to be 1000 stadia. Pliny only was obliged to withdraw to the island of Ægi-makes it 80 miles. Its modern name is said na. Here he was actually suffocated in the to be Rossa-Oscharigatsh. vid. Leuce.] theatre, beneath the number of cloaks and DRUENTIUS and DRUENTIA, [a river of garments, which the people of the island, ac Gaul, rising among the Aipes Cottia, north of cording to the usual mode of expressing ap- Brigantio, or Briançon. It falls into the Rhoprobation among the Greeks, showered upon danus, or Rhone, about three miles below him. He was buried in the theatre. Plut. Avenio or Avignon, after a course of 180 miles, in Sol.A man who instructed Plato in mu-and is now called the Durance. It is an exsic. Id. de Music. tremely rapid river, and below the modern DRANCES, a friend of Latinus. Some have town of Sisteron, it has been found impractiimagined that the poet wished to delineate cable to throw a bridge over it. Its inundathe character and the eloquence of Cicero un-tions are frequent and very destructive.] Sil. der this name. Virg. Æn. 1, v. 122. Ital. 3, v. 468.-Strab. 4.

[DRANCE, vid. Zarangæi.] DRUIDE, the ministers of religion among DRAVUS, [a river of Germany, rising in the ancient Gauls and Britons. [Britain, acthe Norican Alps. It traverses the southern cording to Cæsar, was the great school of parts of Noricum and Pannonia, running the Druids, and their chief settlement was from west to east, and falls into the Danube in the island called Mona by Tacitus, now near the city of Comacum, or Erdent. It is Anglesey. The natives of Gaul and Germa