) The year of that victory is unknown, of Elaea in Aeolis, the author of an epigram in the
but it took place previous to the return of the Greek Anthology (ii.
but it took place previous to the return of the Greek Anthology (ii.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
(Fronun.
of a consul. (Liv, vii. 16, 19. )
Strateg. i. 5. & 6. )
5. C. Duilius, perhaps a brother of No. 4, On his return to Rome, Duilius celebrated a.
was appointed, in B. c. 352, by the consuls splendid triumph, for it was the first naval victory
one of the quinqueviri mensarii, for the liquidation that the Romans had ever gained, and the memory
of debts, and he and his colleague conducted of it was perpetuated by a column which was
their business with such skill and moderation, that crected in the forum, and adorned with the beaks
they gained the gratitude of all parties. (Liv. vii. of the conquered ships (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 5 ; Sil.
21. )
Ital. Pun. vi. 663, &c. ; Quintil. i. 7. § 12), while
6. C. DUILIUS, probably a grandson of No. 4, Duilius himself shewed his gratitude to the gods by
was consul with Cn. Cornelius Asina in B. C. 200. erecting a temple to Janus in the forum Olitorium.
In that year the coast of Italy was repeatedly (Tac. Ann. ii. 49; comp. a somewhat different
ravaged by the Carthaginians, against whom the account in Servius, on Virg. Georg. iii. 29, who
Romans could do nothing, as they were yet with says, that Duilius erected two columnae
out a navy. The Romans theai built their first tratae, one in the forum and the other at the
fleet of one hundred quinqueremes and twenty entrance of the circus. ) The column in the forum
triremes, using for their model a Carthaginian existed in the time of Pliny and Quintilian, but
vessel which had been thrown on the coast of whether it was the original one has been questioned.
Italy. The sum total of the Roman ships is stated It is generally believed that the original inscription
differently, for, according to Orosius (iv. 7), it which adorned the basis of the column is still ex-
amounted to 130, and according to Florus (ii. 2) to tant. It was dug out of the ground in the 16th
160. This fleet is said to have been built in the century, in a mutilated condition, and it has since
short space of sixty days. According to some often been printed with attempts at restoration.
authorities (Zonar. viii, 10 ; Aurel. Vict. de Vir. There are, however, in that inscription some ortho-
Ilustr. 38; Oros. l. c. ), Duilius obtained the com- graphical peculiarities, which suggest, that the pre-
mand of this fleet, whereas, according to Polybius sent inscription is a later restoration of the origi-
(i. 22), it was given to his colleague Cn. Cornelius. nal one. This suspicion was expressed by the first
The same writer states, that at first Cn. Cornelius editor, P. Ciacconius, and has been repeated by
sailed with 17 ships to Messana, but allowed him- Niebuhr (Hist. of Rome, iii. p. 579), who, in a
self to be drawn towards Lipara, and there fell later publication (Lectures on Rom. Hist. i. p. 118, ed.
into the hands of the Carthaginians. (Comp. Schmitz) remarks, “ The present table which con-
Polyaen. vi. 16. & 5. ) Soon after, when the Rotains the inscription is not the original one, for it
man fleet approached Sicily, Hannibal
, the ad- is a piece of Greek marble, which was unknown at
miral of the Carthaginians, sailed out against it Rome in the time of Duilius. The original column
with 50 ships, but he fell in with the enemy before was struck by lightning in the time of Tiberius,
he was aware of it, and, after having lost most of and was faithfully restored by Germanicus. '
his ships, he escaped with the rest. The Romans Duilius was further rewarded for this victory, by
then, on hearing of the misfortune of Cn. Cornelius, being permitted, whenever he returned home from
sent to Duilius, who commanded the land army, a banquet at night, to be accompanied by a torch
and entrusted to him the command of their fleet. and a fute-player. One more interesting fact is
According to Zonaras (viii. 11), Duilius, who com- mentioned in connexion with his consulship, viz.
manded the fleet from the beginning, when he per- in that year the senate of Rome forbade the inter-
ceived the disadvantages under which the clumsy ment of dead bodies within the city. (Serv. ad
ships of the Romans were labouring, devised the Aen. xi. 206. ) According to the Capitoline Fasti,
well-known grappling-irons (kópakes), by means of Duilius was censor in B. C. 258, and in 231 dic-
which the enemy's ships were drawn towards his, tator for the purpose of holding the comitia. (Comp.
60 that the sea-fight was, as it were, changed into Liv. Epit. 17; Cic. de Senect. 13, Orat. 45, pro
a land-fight. (Polyb. i. 22, &c. ; Frontin. Strateg. Planc. 25. )
[L. S. ]
ii. 3. & 24. ) When Duilius was informed that the DUMNORIX, a chieftain of the Aedui, en-
Carthaginians were ravaging the coast of Myle intered into the ambitious designs of Orgetoris, the
Sicily, he saved thither with his whole armament, Helvetian, whose daughter he married. After the
and soon met the Carthaginians, whose fleet con- death of Orgetorix, the Helvetians still continuing
sisted of 130, or, according to Diodorus (xxiii. 2, their plan of migration and conquest, Dumnorix,
Excerpt. Vatic. ), of 200 sail. The battle which who, with a view to sovereign power among his
cnsued off Myle and near the Liparean islands, own people, was anxious to extend his influence in
ended in a glorious victory of the Romans, which all possible quarters, obtained for them a passage
they mainly owed to their grappling-irons. In the through the territory of the Sequani. Caesar soon
first attack the Carthaginians lost 30, and in the discovered that he had done so, and also that he
second 50 more ships, and Hannibal escaped with had prevented the Aeduans from supplying the
difficulty in a little boat. According to Eutropius provisions they were bound to furdish to the Ro-
and Orosius, the loss of the Carthaginians was not man army. In consequence, however, of the ene
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1092
DURIS.
DURMIUS.
trcaties of his brother, Divitiacus, his life was Vesp. 1030. ) Duris as an historian does not ap-
bpared, though Caesar had him closely watched. pear to have enjoyed any very great reputation
This occurred in B. c. 58. When Caesar was on among the ancients. Ciccro (ad Att
. vi. 1) says of
the point of setting out on his second expedition him merely homo in historia satis diligens, and Dio-
into Britain, in B. C. 54, he suspected Dumnorix nysius (de Compos. Verb. 4) reckons him among
too much to leave him behind in Gaul, and he in- those historians who bestowed no care upon the
sisted therefore on his accompanying him. Dum- form of their compositions. His historical veracity
norix, upon this, fled from the Roman camp with also is questioned by Plutarch (Perid. 28; comp.
the Aeduan cavalry, but was overtaken and slain. Demosth. 19, Alcib. 32, Eum. Ì), but he does not
(Caes. B. G. i. 3, 9, 16-20, v. 6,7; Plut. Cues. give any reasons for it, and it may be that Plutarch
18; Dion Cass. xxxviii. 31, 32. ) [E. E. ) was merely struck at finding in Duris things which
DURIS (Agūpıs), of Samos, a descendant of no other writer had mentioned, and was thus led to
Alcibiades (Plut. Alcib
. 32), and brother of Lyn- doubt the credibility of bis statements. The frag-
ceus, lived in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus. ments of Duris have been collected by J. G. Hulle-
The early part of his life fell in the period when man, “ Duridis Samii quae supersunt," Traject. ad
the Athenians sent 2000 cleruchi to Samos, by Rhen. 1841, 8vo. (Comp. W. A. Schmidt, de
whom the inhabitants of the island were expelled, Fontib. vet. auctor. in enarrand. capedit. a Gallis
B. c. 352.
During the absence from his native in Maced. et Graec. susceptis, p. 17, &c. ; Panofka,
country, Duris, when yet a boy, gained a victory Res Samiorum, p. 98, &c. ; Hulleman, l. c. pp. 1
at Olympia in boxing, for which a statue was -66. )
(L. S. ]
erected to bim there with an inscription. (Paus. DURIS ELA'ITES (Aoùpıs 'Enattns), that is,
vi. 13. & 3.
) The year of that victory is unknown, of Elaea in Aeolis, the author of an epigram in the
but it took place previous to the return of the Greek Anthology (ii. 59, Brunck and Jacobs) on
Samians to their island, in B. C. 324. He must the inundation of Ephesus, which happened in the
have been staying for some time at Athens, as he time of Lysimachus, about 322 B. C. It is proba-
and his brother Lynceus are mentioned among the ble, from the nature of the event, that the poet
pupils of Theophrastus. (Athen. iv. p. 128. ) After lived near the time when it took place. Nothing
his return to Samos, he obtained the tyranny, more is known of him. He is a different person
though it is unknown by what means and how from Duris of Samos. (Jacobs, xiii. p. 889. ) Dio-
long he maintained himself in that position. He genes Laërtius (i. 38) mentions a Duris who wroto
must, however, have survived the year B. C. 281, as on painting, whom Vossius (de Hist. Graec. p. 134,
in one of his works (ap. Plin. H. N. viii. 40) heed. Westermann) supposes to be the same who is
mentioned an occurrence which belongs to that year. mentioned by Pliny (xxxiii
. Ind. ), and in another
Duris was the author of a considerable number passage of Diogenes (ü. 19).
[P. S. )
of works, most of which were of an historical M. DU'RMIUS, a triumvir of the mint under
nature, but none of them has come down to us, and Augustus, of whom there are several coins extant.
all we possess of his productions consists of a num- The first two given below contain on the obverse
ber of scattered fragments. His principal work
was--- 1. A history of Greece, of tūv 'EM NVIK
iotopla (Diod. xv. 60), or, as others simply call it,
io tupia. It commenced with the death of the three
princes, Amyntas, the father of Philip of Macedo-
nia, Agesipolis of Sparta, and Jason of Pherae,
that is, with the year B. C. 370, and carried the
(DOHJORO
history down at least to B. c. 281, so that it em-
braced a period of at least 89 years. The number
of books of which it consisted is not known, though the head of Augustus; and the boar and the lion
their number seems to have amounted to about 28. feeding upon the stag, in the reverses, have refer-
Some ancient writers speak of a work of Duris
entitled Maxedoviká, and the question as to whether
this was a distinct work, or merely a part of or
identical with the lotopían, has been much discussed
in modern times. Grauert (Histor. Analect. p. 217)
and Clinton maintain, that it was a separate work,
whereas Vossius and Droysen (Gesch. d. Nachfolg.
UP-VIR
Alex. p. 671, &c. ) have proved by the strongest
evidence, that the Macedonica is the same work as
the ιστορίαι. 2. Περί Αγαθοκλέα ιστορίαι, in
ence to the shows of wild beasts, in which Augus-
several books, the fourth of which is quoted by tus took great delight. The reverse of the third
Suidas. 3. Equiw ipou, that is, Annals of the coin contains a youthful head, and the inscription
history of Samos
, is frequently referred to by the Honori probably refers to the games in honour of
ancients, and consisted of at least twelve books. Virtus and Honor celebrated in the reign of Au-
4. Περί Ευριπίδου και Σοφοκλέους (Athen. iv.
gustus. (Comp. Dion Cass. liv. 18; Eckhel, v.
P.
184), seems to be the same as tepl Tpayublas. pp. 203, 204. )
(Athen. xiv. p. 636. ) 5. Nepi vouwv. (Etym. M.
p. 460. 49. ) 6. Tepl dywvwv. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph.
613; Photius, s. v. Lenivou otepavos. ) 7. Περί
Śwypadlas. (Diog. Laërt, i. 38, ii. 19. ) 8. Nepl
TOPEUTINñs (Plin. Elench. lib. 33, 34), may, how-
ever, have been the same as the preceding work.
9. Aibuké. (Phot. s. v. Mauia ; Schol. ad Aristoph. I
JEMBE
OV
CODE
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DYNAMIUS.
1093
DYSPONTEUS.
DUROʻNIA GENS, plebeian. Of this obscure ; that Dynamius was compelled to quit his native
gens no cognomen, and only four members are city in consequence of being charged, not unjustly
known, viz.
it would scem, with adultery, that he took refuge
1. DURONIA, the mother of P. Aebutius. Her under the assumed name of Flavinius at Lerida,
Becond husband was T. Sempronius Rutilus, who where he practised as a rhetorician, and that he
seems to have had a dislike to his stepson Aebutius. there wedded a wealthy Spanish bride. Late in
Ilis mother, perhaps with a view to get rid of him life he paid a short visit to the place of his birth,
in some way, wanted to get him initiated in the but soon returned to his adopted country, where
Bacchanalian orgies at Rome; but Acbutius be- he died. (Auson. Prof. xxiii. )
tryed the Bacchanalia to the consuls, who pro- 2. A grammarian of uncertain date, the author
tected him against his mother, and Duronia was of an “ Epistola ad Discipulum” to be found in the
thus the cause of the discovery and suppression of Paraenetici Scriptores Veteres ” of Melchior
those orgies, in B. c. 186. (Liv. xxxix. 9, 11, 19. ) Goldast. (Insul. 4to, 1604. ) He is believed by
2. L. DURONIUS, was praetor in B. C. 181, and some to be the same with No. 3.
obtained Apulia for his province, to which the 3. Of Arles, born of a noble family in the mid-
Istri were added, for ambassadors from Tarentum dle of the sixth century, and at the early age of
and Brundusium had complained of the piracy of thirty appointed governor of the province of Mar-
the Istri. He was at the same time commissioned seilles, where he soon became notorious for tyranny
to make inquiries concerning the Bacchanalia, of and extortion, persecuting with especial bostility
which some remaining symptoms had been observed the bishop Theodorus, whom he drove into banish-
the year before. This commission was in all proba- ment, confiscating at the same time the revenues
bility given him for no other reason but because of the see. As he advanced in life, however, a
those symptoms had been observed in the districts singular change was wrought in his character by
which had been assigned to him as his province. remorse or some motive now unknown. He be-
Subsequently he sailed with ten vessels to Illyri- came the obedient instrument of pope Gregory, the
cum, and the year after, when he returned to zealous champion of the rights of Rome, lavished
Rome, he reported that the Illyrian king Genthius his ill-gotten hoards on the endowment of monas-
was the cause of the piracy which was carried on teries, and ended his life in a cloister about A. D.
in the Adriatic. (Liv. xl. 13, 19, 42. )
601. In youth he composed several poetical
3. M. DURONIUS, a Roman senator, who was pieces, which are warmly lauded by Fortunatus of
ejected from the senate in B. C. 97 by the censors, Poitiers ; but the only productions of his pen now
M. Antonius, the orator, and L. Valerius Flaccus ; extant are the Vita S. Marii, abbot of Bevon, an
for Duronius in his tribuneship (probably in the abridgment of which is given in the Acta of Bol-
year B. c. 98) had abolished a lex sumptuaria, and landus under the 27th of January; and the Vita
had used very frivolous and reckless expressions on S. Maximi, originally abbot of Lerins, but after-
that occasion. In revenge he brought an accusa- wards bishop of Riez, contained in the collection
tion for ambitus against the censor M. Antonius. of Surius under 27 Nov. , and in a more correct
(Val. Max. ii. 9. § 5; Cic. de Orat. ii. 68 ; comp. form in the “Chronologia S. Insulae Lerinensis," by
64. )
Vincentius Barralis, Lugdun. 4to, 1613. [W. R. )
4. C. DURONIUS, is mentioned by Cicero (ad DYRRHA'CHIUS (Auppáxios), a son of Po
Att. v. 8) as a friend of Milo. (L. S. ] seidon and Melissa, from whom the town of Dyrra-
DYMAS (Atuas), a son of Aegimius, and bro-chium derived its name ; for formerly it was called
;
ther of Pamphylus and Hyllus. The three tribes Epidamnus, after the father of Melissa. (Paus. vi.
into which each Doric state was divided, derived 10, in fin. ; Steph. Byz. s.
of a consul. (Liv, vii. 16, 19. )
Strateg. i. 5. & 6. )
5. C. Duilius, perhaps a brother of No. 4, On his return to Rome, Duilius celebrated a.
was appointed, in B. c. 352, by the consuls splendid triumph, for it was the first naval victory
one of the quinqueviri mensarii, for the liquidation that the Romans had ever gained, and the memory
of debts, and he and his colleague conducted of it was perpetuated by a column which was
their business with such skill and moderation, that crected in the forum, and adorned with the beaks
they gained the gratitude of all parties. (Liv. vii. of the conquered ships (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 5 ; Sil.
21. )
Ital. Pun. vi. 663, &c. ; Quintil. i. 7. § 12), while
6. C. DUILIUS, probably a grandson of No. 4, Duilius himself shewed his gratitude to the gods by
was consul with Cn. Cornelius Asina in B. C. 200. erecting a temple to Janus in the forum Olitorium.
In that year the coast of Italy was repeatedly (Tac. Ann. ii. 49; comp. a somewhat different
ravaged by the Carthaginians, against whom the account in Servius, on Virg. Georg. iii. 29, who
Romans could do nothing, as they were yet with says, that Duilius erected two columnae
out a navy. The Romans theai built their first tratae, one in the forum and the other at the
fleet of one hundred quinqueremes and twenty entrance of the circus. ) The column in the forum
triremes, using for their model a Carthaginian existed in the time of Pliny and Quintilian, but
vessel which had been thrown on the coast of whether it was the original one has been questioned.
Italy. The sum total of the Roman ships is stated It is generally believed that the original inscription
differently, for, according to Orosius (iv. 7), it which adorned the basis of the column is still ex-
amounted to 130, and according to Florus (ii. 2) to tant. It was dug out of the ground in the 16th
160. This fleet is said to have been built in the century, in a mutilated condition, and it has since
short space of sixty days. According to some often been printed with attempts at restoration.
authorities (Zonar. viii, 10 ; Aurel. Vict. de Vir. There are, however, in that inscription some ortho-
Ilustr. 38; Oros. l. c. ), Duilius obtained the com- graphical peculiarities, which suggest, that the pre-
mand of this fleet, whereas, according to Polybius sent inscription is a later restoration of the origi-
(i. 22), it was given to his colleague Cn. Cornelius. nal one. This suspicion was expressed by the first
The same writer states, that at first Cn. Cornelius editor, P. Ciacconius, and has been repeated by
sailed with 17 ships to Messana, but allowed him- Niebuhr (Hist. of Rome, iii. p. 579), who, in a
self to be drawn towards Lipara, and there fell later publication (Lectures on Rom. Hist. i. p. 118, ed.
into the hands of the Carthaginians. (Comp. Schmitz) remarks, “ The present table which con-
Polyaen. vi. 16. & 5. ) Soon after, when the Rotains the inscription is not the original one, for it
man fleet approached Sicily, Hannibal
, the ad- is a piece of Greek marble, which was unknown at
miral of the Carthaginians, sailed out against it Rome in the time of Duilius. The original column
with 50 ships, but he fell in with the enemy before was struck by lightning in the time of Tiberius,
he was aware of it, and, after having lost most of and was faithfully restored by Germanicus. '
his ships, he escaped with the rest. The Romans Duilius was further rewarded for this victory, by
then, on hearing of the misfortune of Cn. Cornelius, being permitted, whenever he returned home from
sent to Duilius, who commanded the land army, a banquet at night, to be accompanied by a torch
and entrusted to him the command of their fleet. and a fute-player. One more interesting fact is
According to Zonaras (viii. 11), Duilius, who com- mentioned in connexion with his consulship, viz.
manded the fleet from the beginning, when he per- in that year the senate of Rome forbade the inter-
ceived the disadvantages under which the clumsy ment of dead bodies within the city. (Serv. ad
ships of the Romans were labouring, devised the Aen. xi. 206. ) According to the Capitoline Fasti,
well-known grappling-irons (kópakes), by means of Duilius was censor in B. C. 258, and in 231 dic-
which the enemy's ships were drawn towards his, tator for the purpose of holding the comitia. (Comp.
60 that the sea-fight was, as it were, changed into Liv. Epit. 17; Cic. de Senect. 13, Orat. 45, pro
a land-fight. (Polyb. i. 22, &c. ; Frontin. Strateg. Planc. 25. )
[L. S. ]
ii. 3. & 24. ) When Duilius was informed that the DUMNORIX, a chieftain of the Aedui, en-
Carthaginians were ravaging the coast of Myle intered into the ambitious designs of Orgetoris, the
Sicily, he saved thither with his whole armament, Helvetian, whose daughter he married. After the
and soon met the Carthaginians, whose fleet con- death of Orgetorix, the Helvetians still continuing
sisted of 130, or, according to Diodorus (xxiii. 2, their plan of migration and conquest, Dumnorix,
Excerpt. Vatic. ), of 200 sail. The battle which who, with a view to sovereign power among his
cnsued off Myle and near the Liparean islands, own people, was anxious to extend his influence in
ended in a glorious victory of the Romans, which all possible quarters, obtained for them a passage
they mainly owed to their grappling-irons. In the through the territory of the Sequani. Caesar soon
first attack the Carthaginians lost 30, and in the discovered that he had done so, and also that he
second 50 more ships, and Hannibal escaped with had prevented the Aeduans from supplying the
difficulty in a little boat. According to Eutropius provisions they were bound to furdish to the Ro-
and Orosius, the loss of the Carthaginians was not man army. In consequence, however, of the ene
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1092
DURIS.
DURMIUS.
trcaties of his brother, Divitiacus, his life was Vesp. 1030. ) Duris as an historian does not ap-
bpared, though Caesar had him closely watched. pear to have enjoyed any very great reputation
This occurred in B. c. 58. When Caesar was on among the ancients. Ciccro (ad Att
. vi. 1) says of
the point of setting out on his second expedition him merely homo in historia satis diligens, and Dio-
into Britain, in B. C. 54, he suspected Dumnorix nysius (de Compos. Verb. 4) reckons him among
too much to leave him behind in Gaul, and he in- those historians who bestowed no care upon the
sisted therefore on his accompanying him. Dum- form of their compositions. His historical veracity
norix, upon this, fled from the Roman camp with also is questioned by Plutarch (Perid. 28; comp.
the Aeduan cavalry, but was overtaken and slain. Demosth. 19, Alcib. 32, Eum. Ì), but he does not
(Caes. B. G. i. 3, 9, 16-20, v. 6,7; Plut. Cues. give any reasons for it, and it may be that Plutarch
18; Dion Cass. xxxviii. 31, 32. ) [E. E. ) was merely struck at finding in Duris things which
DURIS (Agūpıs), of Samos, a descendant of no other writer had mentioned, and was thus led to
Alcibiades (Plut. Alcib
. 32), and brother of Lyn- doubt the credibility of bis statements. The frag-
ceus, lived in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus. ments of Duris have been collected by J. G. Hulle-
The early part of his life fell in the period when man, “ Duridis Samii quae supersunt," Traject. ad
the Athenians sent 2000 cleruchi to Samos, by Rhen. 1841, 8vo. (Comp. W. A. Schmidt, de
whom the inhabitants of the island were expelled, Fontib. vet. auctor. in enarrand. capedit. a Gallis
B. c. 352.
During the absence from his native in Maced. et Graec. susceptis, p. 17, &c. ; Panofka,
country, Duris, when yet a boy, gained a victory Res Samiorum, p. 98, &c. ; Hulleman, l. c. pp. 1
at Olympia in boxing, for which a statue was -66. )
(L. S. ]
erected to bim there with an inscription. (Paus. DURIS ELA'ITES (Aoùpıs 'Enattns), that is,
vi. 13. & 3.
) The year of that victory is unknown, of Elaea in Aeolis, the author of an epigram in the
but it took place previous to the return of the Greek Anthology (ii. 59, Brunck and Jacobs) on
Samians to their island, in B. C. 324. He must the inundation of Ephesus, which happened in the
have been staying for some time at Athens, as he time of Lysimachus, about 322 B. C. It is proba-
and his brother Lynceus are mentioned among the ble, from the nature of the event, that the poet
pupils of Theophrastus. (Athen. iv. p. 128. ) After lived near the time when it took place. Nothing
his return to Samos, he obtained the tyranny, more is known of him. He is a different person
though it is unknown by what means and how from Duris of Samos. (Jacobs, xiii. p. 889. ) Dio-
long he maintained himself in that position. He genes Laërtius (i. 38) mentions a Duris who wroto
must, however, have survived the year B. C. 281, as on painting, whom Vossius (de Hist. Graec. p. 134,
in one of his works (ap. Plin. H. N. viii. 40) heed. Westermann) supposes to be the same who is
mentioned an occurrence which belongs to that year. mentioned by Pliny (xxxiii
. Ind. ), and in another
Duris was the author of a considerable number passage of Diogenes (ü. 19).
[P. S. )
of works, most of which were of an historical M. DU'RMIUS, a triumvir of the mint under
nature, but none of them has come down to us, and Augustus, of whom there are several coins extant.
all we possess of his productions consists of a num- The first two given below contain on the obverse
ber of scattered fragments. His principal work
was--- 1. A history of Greece, of tūv 'EM NVIK
iotopla (Diod. xv. 60), or, as others simply call it,
io tupia. It commenced with the death of the three
princes, Amyntas, the father of Philip of Macedo-
nia, Agesipolis of Sparta, and Jason of Pherae,
that is, with the year B. C. 370, and carried the
(DOHJORO
history down at least to B. c. 281, so that it em-
braced a period of at least 89 years. The number
of books of which it consisted is not known, though the head of Augustus; and the boar and the lion
their number seems to have amounted to about 28. feeding upon the stag, in the reverses, have refer-
Some ancient writers speak of a work of Duris
entitled Maxedoviká, and the question as to whether
this was a distinct work, or merely a part of or
identical with the lotopían, has been much discussed
in modern times. Grauert (Histor. Analect. p. 217)
and Clinton maintain, that it was a separate work,
whereas Vossius and Droysen (Gesch. d. Nachfolg.
UP-VIR
Alex. p. 671, &c. ) have proved by the strongest
evidence, that the Macedonica is the same work as
the ιστορίαι. 2. Περί Αγαθοκλέα ιστορίαι, in
ence to the shows of wild beasts, in which Augus-
several books, the fourth of which is quoted by tus took great delight. The reverse of the third
Suidas. 3. Equiw ipou, that is, Annals of the coin contains a youthful head, and the inscription
history of Samos
, is frequently referred to by the Honori probably refers to the games in honour of
ancients, and consisted of at least twelve books. Virtus and Honor celebrated in the reign of Au-
4. Περί Ευριπίδου και Σοφοκλέους (Athen. iv.
gustus. (Comp. Dion Cass. liv. 18; Eckhel, v.
P.
184), seems to be the same as tepl Tpayublas. pp. 203, 204. )
(Athen. xiv. p. 636. ) 5. Nepi vouwv. (Etym. M.
p. 460. 49. ) 6. Tepl dywvwv. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph.
613; Photius, s. v. Lenivou otepavos. ) 7. Περί
Śwypadlas. (Diog. Laërt, i. 38, ii. 19. ) 8. Nepl
TOPEUTINñs (Plin. Elench. lib. 33, 34), may, how-
ever, have been the same as the preceding work.
9. Aibuké. (Phot. s. v. Mauia ; Schol. ad Aristoph. I
JEMBE
OV
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DYNAMIUS.
1093
DYSPONTEUS.
DUROʻNIA GENS, plebeian. Of this obscure ; that Dynamius was compelled to quit his native
gens no cognomen, and only four members are city in consequence of being charged, not unjustly
known, viz.
it would scem, with adultery, that he took refuge
1. DURONIA, the mother of P. Aebutius. Her under the assumed name of Flavinius at Lerida,
Becond husband was T. Sempronius Rutilus, who where he practised as a rhetorician, and that he
seems to have had a dislike to his stepson Aebutius. there wedded a wealthy Spanish bride. Late in
Ilis mother, perhaps with a view to get rid of him life he paid a short visit to the place of his birth,
in some way, wanted to get him initiated in the but soon returned to his adopted country, where
Bacchanalian orgies at Rome; but Acbutius be- he died. (Auson. Prof. xxiii. )
tryed the Bacchanalia to the consuls, who pro- 2. A grammarian of uncertain date, the author
tected him against his mother, and Duronia was of an “ Epistola ad Discipulum” to be found in the
thus the cause of the discovery and suppression of Paraenetici Scriptores Veteres ” of Melchior
those orgies, in B. c. 186. (Liv. xxxix. 9, 11, 19. ) Goldast. (Insul. 4to, 1604. ) He is believed by
2. L. DURONIUS, was praetor in B. C. 181, and some to be the same with No. 3.
obtained Apulia for his province, to which the 3. Of Arles, born of a noble family in the mid-
Istri were added, for ambassadors from Tarentum dle of the sixth century, and at the early age of
and Brundusium had complained of the piracy of thirty appointed governor of the province of Mar-
the Istri. He was at the same time commissioned seilles, where he soon became notorious for tyranny
to make inquiries concerning the Bacchanalia, of and extortion, persecuting with especial bostility
which some remaining symptoms had been observed the bishop Theodorus, whom he drove into banish-
the year before. This commission was in all proba- ment, confiscating at the same time the revenues
bility given him for no other reason but because of the see. As he advanced in life, however, a
those symptoms had been observed in the districts singular change was wrought in his character by
which had been assigned to him as his province. remorse or some motive now unknown. He be-
Subsequently he sailed with ten vessels to Illyri- came the obedient instrument of pope Gregory, the
cum, and the year after, when he returned to zealous champion of the rights of Rome, lavished
Rome, he reported that the Illyrian king Genthius his ill-gotten hoards on the endowment of monas-
was the cause of the piracy which was carried on teries, and ended his life in a cloister about A. D.
in the Adriatic. (Liv. xl. 13, 19, 42. )
601. In youth he composed several poetical
3. M. DURONIUS, a Roman senator, who was pieces, which are warmly lauded by Fortunatus of
ejected from the senate in B. C. 97 by the censors, Poitiers ; but the only productions of his pen now
M. Antonius, the orator, and L. Valerius Flaccus ; extant are the Vita S. Marii, abbot of Bevon, an
for Duronius in his tribuneship (probably in the abridgment of which is given in the Acta of Bol-
year B. c. 98) had abolished a lex sumptuaria, and landus under the 27th of January; and the Vita
had used very frivolous and reckless expressions on S. Maximi, originally abbot of Lerins, but after-
that occasion. In revenge he brought an accusa- wards bishop of Riez, contained in the collection
tion for ambitus against the censor M. Antonius. of Surius under 27 Nov. , and in a more correct
(Val. Max. ii. 9. § 5; Cic. de Orat. ii. 68 ; comp. form in the “Chronologia S. Insulae Lerinensis," by
64. )
Vincentius Barralis, Lugdun. 4to, 1613. [W. R. )
4. C. DURONIUS, is mentioned by Cicero (ad DYRRHA'CHIUS (Auppáxios), a son of Po
Att. v. 8) as a friend of Milo. (L. S. ] seidon and Melissa, from whom the town of Dyrra-
DYMAS (Atuas), a son of Aegimius, and bro-chium derived its name ; for formerly it was called
;
ther of Pamphylus and Hyllus. The three tribes Epidamnus, after the father of Melissa. (Paus. vi.
into which each Doric state was divided, derived 10, in fin. ; Steph. Byz. s.
