li. 675.
=Dolomēna=, a country of Assyria. _Strabo_, bk. 16.
=Dŏlon=, a Trojan, son of Eumedes, famous for his swiftness. Being
sent by Hector to spy the Grecian camp by night, he was seized by
Diomedes and Ulysses, to whom he revealed the situation, schemes,
and resolutions of his countrymen, with the hopes of escaping with
his life. He was put to death by Diomedes, as a traitor. _Homer_,
_Iliad_, bk. 10, li. 314.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 12, li. 349, &c.
――――A poet. _See:_ Susarion.
=Dōlonci=, a people of Thrace. _Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 34.
=Dŏlŏpes=, a people of Thessaly, near mount Pindus. Peleus reigned
there, and sent them to the Trojan war under Phœnix. They became
also masters of Scyros, and like the rest of the ancient Greeks,
were fond of migration. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 7.――_Flaccus_,
bk. 2, li. 10.――_Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 33.――_Strabo_, bk. 9.――_Plutarch_,
_Cimon_.
=Dŏlŏpia=, the country of the Dolopes, near Pindus, through which the
Achelous flowed.
=Dŏlops=, a Trojan, son of Lampus, killed by Menelaus. _Homer_,
_Iliad_, bk. 15, li. 525.
=Domidūcus=, a god who presided over marriage. Juno also was called
_Domiduca_, from the power she was supposed to have in marriages.
=Domīnĭca=, a daughter of Petronius, who married the ♦emperor Valens.
♦ ‘emperior’ replaced with ‘emperor’
=Domitĭa lex=, _de Religione_, was enacted by Domitius Ahenobarbus the
tribune, A.U.C. 650. It transferred the right of electing priests
from the college to the people.
=Domĭtia Longīna=, a Roman lady who boasted in her debaucheries. She
was the wife of the emperor Domitian.
=Domĭtiānus Titus Flavius=, son of Vespasian and Flavia Domatilla,
made himself emperor of Rome at the death of his brother Titus,
whom, according to some accounts, he destroyed by poison. The
beginning of his reign promised tranquillity to the people, but
their expectations were soon frustrated. Domitian became cruel,
and gave way to incestuous and unnatural indulgencies. He commanded
himself to be called God and Lord in all the papers which were
presented to him. He passed the greatest part of the day in catching
flies and killing them with a bodkin, so that it was wittily
answered by Vibius to a person who asked him who was with the
emperor, “Nobody, not even a fly.” In the latter part of his reign
Domitian became suspicious, and his anxieties were increased by
the predictions of astrologers, but still more poignantly by the
stings of remorse. He was so distrustful even when alone, that round
the terrace, where he usually walked, he built a wall with shining
stones, that from them he might perceive as in a looking-glass
whether anybody followed him. All these precautions were unavailing;
he perished by the hand of an assassin the 18th of September, A.D.
96, in the 45th year of his age and the 15th of his reign. He was
the last of the 12 Cæsars. He distinguished himself for his love
of learning, and in a little treatise which he wrote upon the great
care which ought to be taken of the hair to prevent baldness, he
displayed much taste and elegance, according to the observations
of his biographers. After his death he was publicly deprived by the
senate of all the honours which had been profusely heaped upon him,
and even his body was left in the open air without the honours of
a funeral. This disgrace might proceed from the resentment of the
senators, whom he had exposed to terror as well as to ridicule. He
once assembled that august body, to know in what vessel a turbot
might be most conveniently dressed. At another time they received
a formal invitation to a feast, and when they arrived at the palace,
they were introduced into a large gloomy hall hung with black, and
lighted with a few glimmering tapers. In the middle were placed a
number of coffins, on each of which was inscribed the name of some
one of the invited senators. On a sudden a number of men burst into
the room, clothed in black, with drawn swords and flaming torches,
and after they had for some time terrified the guests, they permitted
them to retire. Such were the amusements and cruelties of a man who,
in the first part of his reign, was looked upon as the father of his
people, and the restorer of learning and liberty. _Suetonius_, _The
Twelve Caesars_.――_Eutropius_, bk. 7.
=Domĭtilla Flavia=, a woman who married Vespasian, by whom she had
Titus a year after her marriage, and, 11 years after, Domitian.――――A
niece of the emperor Domitian, by whom she was banished.
=Domĭtius Domitiănus=, a general of Diocletian in Egypt. He assumed
the imperial purple at Alexandria, A.D. 288, and supported the
dignity of emperor for about two years. He died a violent death.
――――Lucius. _See:_ Ænobarbus.――――Cnæus Ænobarbus, a Roman consul,
who conquered Bituitus the Gaul, and left 20,000 of the enemy on
the field of battle, and took 3000 prisoners.――――A grammarian in
the reign of Adrian. He was remarkable for his virtues, and his
melancholy disposition.――――A Roman who revolted from Antony to
Augustus. He was at the battle of Pharsalia, and forced Pompey to
fight by the mere force of his ridicule.――――The father of Nero,
famous for his cruelties and debaucheries. _Suetonius_, _Nero_.――――A
tribune of the people, who conquered the Allobroges. _Plutarch._
――――A consul during whose consulate peace was concluded with
Alexander king of Epirus. _Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 17.――――A consul under
Caligula. He wrote some few things now lost.――――A Latin poet, called
also Marsus, in the age of Horace. He wrote epigrams, remarkable for
little besides their indelicacy. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 4, poem 16,
li. 5.――――Afer, an orator, who was preceptor to Quintilian. He
disgraced his talents by his adulation, and by practising the arts
of an informer under Tiberius and his successors. He was made a
consul by Nero, and died A.D. 59.
=Ælius Donātus=, a grammarian, who flourished A.D. 353.――――A bishop
of Numidia, a promoter of the Donatists, A.D. 311.――――A bishop of
Africa, banished from Carthage, A.D. 356.
=Donilāus=, a prince of Gallogræcia, who assisted Pompey with 300
horsemen against Julius Cæsar.
=Donūca=, a mountain of Thrace. _Livy_, bk. 40, ch. 57.
=Dŏnȳsa=, one of the Cyclades in the Ægean, where green marble is
found. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 125.
=Doracte=, an island in the Persian gulf.
=Dōres=, the inhabitants of Doris. _See:_ Doris.
=Dori= and =Dorica=, a part of Achaia near Athens.
=Dorĭcus=, an epithet applied not only to Doris, but to all the Greeks
in general. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 27.
=Dorienses=, a people of Crete,――――of Cyrene.
=Dorieus=, a son of Anaxandridas, who went with a colony into
Sicily, because he could not bear to be under his brother at home.
_Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 42, &c.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, chs. 3 & 16,
&c.――――A son of Diagoras of Rhodes. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 7.
=Dorilas=, a rich Libyan prince, killed in the court of Cepheus.
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 4.
=Dorilaus=, a general of the great Mithridates.
=Dorion=, a town of Thessaly, where Thamyras the musician challenged
the muses to a trial of skill. _Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 4, li. 182.
――_Propertius_, bk. 2, poem 22, li. 19.――_Lucan_, bk. 6, li. 352.
=Dōris=, a country of Greece between Phocis, Thessaly, and Acarnania.
It received its name from Dorus the son of Deucalion, who made a
settlement there. It was called _Tetrapolis_, from the four cities
of Pindus or Dryopis, Erineum, Cytinium, Borium, which it contained.
To these four some add Lilæum and Carphia, and therefore call it
Hexapolis. The name of Doris has been common to many parts of Greece.
The Dorians, in the age of Deucalion, inhabited Phthiotis, which
they exchanged for Histiæotis, in the age of Dorus. From thence
they were driven by the Cadmæans, and came to settle near the town
of Pindus. From thence they passed into Dryopis, and afterwards
into Peloponnesus. Hercules having re-established Ægimius king of
Phthiotis or Doris, who had been driven from his country by the
Lapithæ, the grateful king appointed Hyllus the son of his patron
to be his successor, and the Heraclidæ marched from that part of
the country to go to recover Peloponnesus. The Dorians sent many
colonies into different places, which bore the same name as their
native country. The most famous of these is _Doris in Asia Minor_,
of which Halicarnassus was once the capital. This part of Asia Minor
was called Hexapolis, and afterwards Pentapolis, after the exclusion
of Halicarnassus. _Strabo_, bk. 9, &c.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2,
li. 27.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 29.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2.――_Herodotus_,
bk. 1, ch. 144; bk. 8, ch. 31.――――A goddess of the sea, daughter
of Oceanus and Tethys. She married her brother Nereus, by whom she
had 50 daughters called Nereides. Her name is often used to express
the sea itself. _Propertius_, bk. 1, poem 17, li. 25.――_Virgil_,
_Eclogues_, poem 10.――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 240.――――A woman of
Locri, daughter of Xenetus, whom Dionysius the elder, of Sicily,
married the same day with Aristomache. _Cicero_, _Tusculanæ
Disputationes_, bk. 5.――――One of the 50 Nereides. _Hesiod_,
_Theogony_, li. 250.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 18, li. 45.
=Doriscus=, a place of Thrace near the sea, where Xerxes numbered his
forces. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 59.
=Dorium=, a town of Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 33.――――One
of the Danaides. _Apollodorus._
=Dorius=, a mountain of Asia Minor. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 3.
=Dorsennus=, a comic poet of great merit in the Augustan age. _Pliny_,
bk. 14, ch. 13.――_Horace_, bk. 2, ltr. 10, li. 173.
=Dorso Caius Fabius=, a Roman who, when Rome was in the possession of
the Gauls, issued from the Capitol, which was then besieged, to go
and offer a sacrifice, which was to be offered on mount Quirinalis.
He dressed himself in sacerdotal robes, and carrying on his
shoulders the statues of his country gods, passed through the guards
of the enemy, without betraying the least signs of fear. When he had
finished his sacrifice, he returned to the Capitol unmolested by the
enemy, who were astonished at his boldness, and did not obstruct his
passage or molest his sacrifice. _Livy_, bk. 5, ch. 46.
=Dōrus=, a son of Hellen and Orseis, or, according to others, of
Deucalion, who left Phthiotis, where his father reigned, and went to
make a settlement with some of his companions near mount Ossa. The
country was called Doris, and the inhabitants Dorians. _Herodotus_,
bk. 1, ch. 56, &c.――――A city of Phœnicia, whose inhabitants are
called Dorienses. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 24.
=Doryasus=, a Spartan, father to Agesilaus.
=Dŏrȳclus=, an illegitimate son of Priam, killed by Ajax in the Trojan
war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 11.――――A brother of Phineus king of
Thrace, who married Beroe. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 620.
=Dŏrȳlæum= and =Dorylæus=, a city of Phrygia, now _Eski Shehr_.
_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 29.――_Cicero_, _Flaccus_, ch. 17.
=Dory̆las=, one of the centaurs killed by Theseus. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 180.
=Dory̆lāus=, a warlike person intimate with Mithridates Evergetes, and
general of the Gnossians, B.C. 125. _Strabo_, bk. 10.
=Doryssus=, a king of Lacedæmon, killed in a tumult. _Pausanias_,
bk. 3, ch. 2.
=Dosci=, a people near the Euxine.
=Dosiadas=, a poet who wrote a piece of poetry in the form of an altar
(βωμος), which Theocritus has imitated.
=Dosiades=, a Greek, who wrote a history of Crete. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.
=Doson=, a surname of Antigonus, because he promised and never
performed.
=Dossēnus=, or =Dorsennus=. _See:_ Dorsennus.
=Dotădas=, a king of Messenia, &c. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 3.
=Doto=, one of the Nereides. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 102.
=Dotus=, a general of the Paphlagonians, in the army of Xerxes.
_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 72.
=Doxander=, a man mentioned by _Aristotle_, _Politics_, bk. 5.
=Dracānus=, a mountain where Jupiter took Bacchus from his thigh.
_Theocritus._
=Draco=, a celebrated lawgiver of Athens. When he exercised the office
of archon, he made a code of laws, B.C. 623, for the use of the
citizens, which, on account of their severity, were said to be
written in letters of blood. By them, idleness was punished with
as much severity as murder, and death was denounced against the one
as well as the other. Such a code of rigorous laws gave occasion
to a certain Athenian to ask of the legislator why he was so severe
in his punishments, and Draco gave for answer, that as the smallest
transgression had appeared to him deserving death, he could not find
any punishment more rigorous for more atrocious crimes. These laws
were at first enforced, but they were often neglected on account
of their extreme severity, and Solon totally abolished them, except
that one which punished a murderer with death. The popularity of
Draco was uncommon, but the gratitude of his admirers proved fatal
to him. When once he appeared on the theatre, he was received with
repeated applauses, and the people, according to the custom of
the Athenians, showed their respect to their lawgiver, by throwing
garments upon him. This was done in such profusion, that Draco was
soon hid under them, and smothered by the too great veneration of
his citizens. _Plutarch_, _Solon_.――――A man who instructed Plato in
music. _Plutarch_, _de Musica_.
=Dracontides=, a wicked citizen of Athens. ♦_Plato [Comicus]_,
_The Sophists_.
♦ ‘Plut.’ replaced with ‘Plato’
=Dracus=, a general of the Achæans, conquered by Mummius.
=Drances=, a friend of Latinus, remarkable for his weakness and
eloquence. He showed himself an obstinate opponent to the violent
measures which Turnus pursued against the Trojans. Some have
imagined that the poet wished to delineate the character and the
eloquence of Cicero under this name. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11,
li. 122.
=Drangina=, a province of Persia. _Diodorus_, bk. 17.
=Drapes=, a seditious Gaul, &c. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 8, ch. 30.
=Drapus=, a river of Noricum, which falls into the Danube near Mursa.
=Drĕpăna= and =Drĕpănum=, now _Trapani_, a town of ♦Sicily near mount
Eryx, in the form of a scythe, whence its name (δρεπανον, _falx_).
Anchises died there, in his voyage to Italy with his son Æneas. The
Romans under Claudius Pulcher were defeated near the coast, B.C. 249,
by the Carthaginian general Adherbal. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li.
707.――_Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 2, ch. 57.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_,
bk. 4, li. 474.――――A promontory of Peloponnesus.
♦ ‘Scily’ replaced with ‘Sicily’
=Drilo=, a river of Macedonia, which falls into the Adriatic at Lissus.
=Drimăchus=, a famous robber of Chios. When a price was set upon his
head, he ordered a young man to cut it off and go and receive the
money. Such an uncommon instance of generosity so pleased the Chians,
that they raised a temple to his memory, and honoured him as a god.
_Athenæus_, bk. 13.
=Drinus=, a small river falling into the Save and Danube.
=Driŏpĭdes=, an Athenian ambassador sent to Darius when the peace with
Alexander had been violated. _Curtius_, bk. 3, ch. 13.
=Drios=, a mountain of Arcadia.
=Droi=, a people of Thrace. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 101.
=Dromæus=, a surname of Apollo in Crete.
=Dropĭci=, a people of Persia. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 125.
=Dropion=, a king of Pæonia. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 13.
=Druentius= and =Druentia=, now _Durance_, a rapid river of Gaul,
which falls into the Rhone between Arles and Avignon. _Silius
Italicus_, bk. 3, li. 468.――_Strabo_, bk. 4.
=Drugĕri=, a people of Thrace. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 11.
=Druĭdæ=, the ministers of religion among the ancient Gauls and
Britons. They were divided into different classes, called the Bardi,
Eubages, the Vates, the Semnothei, the Sarronides, and the Samothei.
They were held in the greatest veneration by the people. Their life
was austere and recluse from the world, their dress was peculiar to
themselves, and they generally appeared with a tunic which reached a
little below the knee. As the chief power was lodged in their hands,
they punished as they pleased, and could declare war and make peace
at their option. Their power was extended not only over private
families, but they could depose magistrates and even kings, if their
actions in any manner deviated from the laws of the state. They had
the privilege of naming the magistrates which annually presided over
their cities, and the kings were created only with their approbation.
They were entrusted with the education of youth, and all religious
ceremonies, festivals, and sacrifices were under their peculiar
care. They taught the doctrine of the metempsychosis, and believed
the immortality of the soul. They were professionally acquainted
with the art of magic, and from their knowledge of astrology they
drew omens and saw futurity revealed before their eyes. In their
sacrifices they often immolated human victims to their gods, a
barbarous custom which continued long among them, and which the
Roman emperors attempted to abolish, to little purpose. The power
and privileges which they enjoyed were beheld with admiration by
their countrymen, and as their office was open to every rank and
every station, there were many who daily proposed themselves as
candidates to enter upon this important function. The rigour,
however, and severity of a long noviciate deterred many, and few
were willing to attempt a labour, which enjoined them during 15 or
20 years to load their memory with the long and tedious maxims of
druidical religion. Their name is derived from the Greek word δρυς,
_an oak_, because the woods and solitary retreats were the places
of their residence. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 6, ch. 13.――_Pliny_,
bk. 16, ch. 44.――_Diodorus_, bk. 5.
=Druna=, the _Drome_, a river of Gaul, falling into the Rhone.
=Drusilla Livia=, a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina, famous for
her debaucheries and licentiousness. She committed incest with her
brother Caligula, who was so tenderly attached to her, that, in a
dangerous illness, he made her heiress of all his possessions, and
commanded that she should succeed him in the Roman empire. She died
A.D. 38, in the 23rd year of her age, and was deified by her brother
Caligula, who survived her for some time.――――A daughter of Agrippa
king of Judæa, &c.
=Drūso=, an unskilful historian and mean usurer, who obliged
his debtors, when they could not pay him, to hear him read his
compositions, to draw from them praises and flattery. _Horace_,
bk. 1, satire 3, li. 86.
=Drūsus=, a son of Tiberius and Vipsania, who made himself famous
by his intrepidity and courage in the provinces of Illyricum and
Pannonia. He was raised to the greatest honours of the state by his
father, but a blow which he gave to Sejanus, an audacious libertine,
proved his ruin. Sejanus corrupted Livia the wife of Drusus, and in
conjunction with her, he caused him to be poisoned by a eunuch, A.D.
23.――――A son of Germanicus and Agrippina, who enjoyed offices of the
greatest trust under Tiberius. His enemy Sejanus, however, effected
his ruin by his insinuations; Drusus was confined by Tiberius,
and deprived of all aliment. He was found dead nine days after
his confinement, A.D. 33.――――A son of the emperor Claudius, who
died by swallowing a pear thrown in the air.――――An ambitious Roman,
grandfather to Cato. He was killed for his seditious conduct.
_Paterculus_, bk. 1, ch. 13.――――Livius, father of Julia Augusta,
was intimate with Brutus, and killed himself with him after the
battle of Philippi. _Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 71.――――Marcus Livius,
a celebrated Roman, who renewed the proposals of the Agrarian laws,
which had proved fatal to the Gracchi. He was murdered as he entered
his house, though he was attended with a number of clients and
Latins, to whom he had proposed the privilege of Roman citizens, B.C.
190. _Cicero_, _Rhetorica ad Herennium_, bk. 4, ♦ch. 22.――――Nero
Claudius, a son of Tiberius Nero and Livia, adopted by Augustus. He
was brother to Tiberius, who was afterwards made emperor. He greatly
signalized himself in his wars in Germany and Gaul against the Rhœti
and Vindelici, and was honoured with a triumph. He died of a fall
from his horse in the 30th year of his age, B.C. 9. He left three
children, Germanicus, Livia, and Claudius, by his wife Antonia.
_Dionysius of Halicarnassus._――――Marcus Livius Salinator, a consul
who conquered Asdrubal with his colleague Claudius Nero. _Horace_,
bk. 4, ode 4.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 824.――――Caius, an
historian, who being one day missed from his cradle, was found the
next on the highest part of the house, with his face turned towards
the sun.――――Marcus, a pretor, &c. _Cicero_, _Rhetorica ad Herennium_,
bk. 2, ch. 13.――――The plebeian family of the Drusi produced eight
consuls, two censors, and one dictator. The surname of Drusus was
given to the family of the Livii, as some suppose, because one of
them killed a Gaulish leader of that name. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6,
li. 824, mentions the Drusi among the illustrious Romans, and that
perhaps more particularly because the wife of Augustus was of that
family.
♦ ‘12’ replaced with ‘22’
=Dryădes=, nymphs that presided over the woods. Oblations of milk,
oil, and honey were offered to them, and sometimes the votaries
sacrificed a goat. They were not generally considered immortal, but
as genii, whose lives were terminated with the tree over which they
were supposed to preside. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 11.
=Dryantiădes=, a patronymic of Lycurgus king of Thrace, son of Dryas.
He cut his legs as he attempted to destroy the vines that no
libations might be made to Bacchus. _Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 345.
=Dryas=, a son of Hippolochus, who was father to Lycurgus. He went
with Eteocles to the Theban war, where he perished. _Statius_,
_Thebiad_, bk. 8, li. 355.――――A son of Mars, who went to the chase
of the Calydonian boar. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.――――A centaur at
the nuptials of Pirithous, who killed Rhœtus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 12, li. 296.――――A daughter of Faunus, who so hated the sight of
men, that she never appeared in public.――――A son of Lycurgus, killed
by his own father in a fury. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――――A son
of Ægyptus, murdered by his wife Eurydice. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2,
ch. 1.
=Drymæa=, a town of Phocis. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 33.
=Drymo=, a sea-nymph, one of the attendants of Cyrene. _Virgil_,
_Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 536.
=Drymus=, a town between Attica and Bœotia.
=Dryŏpe=, a woman of Lemnos, whose shape Venus assumed, to persuade
all the females of the island to murder the men. _Flaccus_, bk. 2,
li. 174.――――A virgin of Œchalia, whom Andræmon married after she had
been ravished by Apollo. She became mother of Amphisus, who, when
scarce a year old, was with his mother changed into a lotus. _Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 10, li. 331.――――A nymph, mother of Tarquitus by
Faunus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 551.――――A nymph of Arcadia,
mother of Pan by Mercury, according to _Homer_, _Hymn 19 to Pan_.
=Dryŏpeia=, an anniversary day observed at Asine in Argolis, in honour
of Dryops the son of Apollo.
♦=Dryŏpes=, a people of Greece, near mount Œta. They afterwards passed
into the Peloponnesus, where they inhabited the towns of Asine and
Hermione, in Argolis. When they were driven from Asine by the people
of Argos, they settled among the Messenians, and called a town
by the name of their ancient habitation _Asine_. Some of their
descendants went to make a settlement in Asia Minor, together with
the Ionians. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 146; bk. 8, ch. 32.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 4, ch. 34.――_Strabo_, bks. 7, 8, 13.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1.
――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 4, li. 146.――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 179.
♦ ‘Drpŏpes’ replaced with ‘Dryŏpes’
=Dryŏpis= and =Dryŏpĭda=, a small country at the foot of mount Œta in
Thessaly. Its true situation is not well ascertained. According to
Pliny, it bordered on Epirus. It was for some time in the possession
of the Hellenes, after they were driven from Histiæotis by the
Cadmeans. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 56.