) These differ swept
together
with a broom.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
382 to 379.
treat on the subject of peace in B. c. 347. In B. C. (Xen. Hell. v. 2, 3 ; Diod. xv. 19-23. ) We learn
346, the same ambassadors appear to have been from Theopompus (ap. Athen. X. p. 436, d. ), that
again deputed to ratify the treaty. (See the he was taken prisoner by the Olynthians, but it
Argument prefixed to Dem. de Fals. Lrg. p. 336 ; does not appear on what occasion ; nor is it certain
Aesch. de Fals. Leg. p. 41 ; Thirwall's Grecce, whether he is the same Derdas to whom Aristotle
vol. v. p. 356; comp. the decree ap. Dem. de Cor. alludes. (Polit. v. 10, ed. Bekk. ) Derdas, whose
p. 235; Classical Museum, vol. i. p. 145. ) Der sister Phila was one of the wives of Philip, was
cylus was also one of the envoys in the third probably a different person, though of the same
embassy (end tous 'Auoktúovas), which was ap- family. (Ath. xiii. p. 557, c. )
[E. E. )
pointed to convey to Philip, then marching upon DERRHIA'TIS (Aepoiétis), a surname of Ar-
Phocis, the complimentary and cordial decree of temis, which she derived from the town of Der-
Philocrates, and to attend the Amphictyonic coun- rhion on the road from Sparta to Arcadia. (Paus.
cil that was about to be convened on the affairs of iii. 20. $ 7. )
[L. S. ]
Phocis. When, however, the ambassadors had DESIDE'RIUS, brother of Magnentius, by
reached Chalcis in Euboea, they heard of the de- whom he was created Caesar and soon after put to
struction of the Phocian towns by Philip, and of death, when the tyrant, finding that his position
his having taken part entirely with the Thebans, was hopeless, in a transport of rage, massacred all
and Dercylus returned to Athens with the alarm- his relations and friends, and then, to avoid falling
ing news ; but the embassy was still desired to into the power of his rival, perished by his own
proceed. (Aesch. de Fals. Leg. pp. 40, 46, c. Ctes. p. hands. According to Zonaras, however, Deside-
05; Dem. de Cor. p. 237, de Fals. Leg. pp. 360, rius was not actually killed, but only grievously
379. ) It is perhaps the same Dercylus whom Plutarch wounded, and upon his recovery surrendered to
mentions as “ general of the country” (TOÛ ÊTrì Tņs Constantius. No genuine medals of this prince
xopas otpatnyoû, in B. c. 318). When Nicanor, are extant. (Zonar. xiii. 9; Julian, Orat. frag. ;
having been called on to withdraw the Macedonian Chron. Alexand. p. 680, ed. 1615 ; Eckhel, vol.
garrison from Munychia, consented to attend a viji. p. 121. )
[11. R. ]
meeting of the council in the Peiraeeus, Dercylus DESILA'US (Acoinaos), a statuary, whose
formed a design to seize him, but he became aware | Doryphorus and wounded Amazon are identioned
of it in time to escape. Dercylus is also said to by Pliny (xxxiv. 8. s. 19. & 15). There is no reason
have warned Phocion in vain of Nicanor's inten- to believe, with Meyer and Müller, that the name
tion of making himself master of the Peiraeeus. is a corruption of Ctesilaüs; but, on the contrary,
(Plut. Phoc. 32; Nep. Phoc. 2; Droysen, Gesch. the wounded Amazon in the Vatican, which they
der Nachf. Alex. p. 223. )
(E. E. ] take for a copy of the work of Ctesilaüs, is proba-
DERCYLUS or DERCYLLUS (Aepkúaos, bly copied from the Amazon of Desilaüs. (Ross,
Aépkulos), a very ancient Greek writer, men- Kunstblatt, for 1840, No. 12. ) [CRESILAS. ] [P. S. ]
tioned several times in connexion with Agias, the DESPOENA (Aéoroiva), the ruling goddess or
latter being a different person probably from the the mistress, occurs as a surname of several divini-
author of the Nóotoi, with whom Meineke identities, such as Aphrodite (Theocrit. xv. 100), De-
fies him. We find the following works of Der- meter (Aristoph. Thesm. 286), and Persephone.
cylus referred to: 1. 'Αργολικά. 2. ’Italirá. (Paus. viii. 37. S 6; comp. PERSEPHONE. ) (L. S. ]
3. Αίτολικά. 4. Κτίσεις. 5. Σατυρικά, appa- DEUCA'LION (Aeukaliwv). 1. A son of Pro-
rently on the fables relating to the Satyrs. 6. llep metheus and Clymene. He was king in Phthia,
opwv. 7. Ilepi aitwr. The exact period at which and married to Pyrrba. When Zeus, after the
he flourished is uncertain. (Plut. Par. Min. 17, 38, treatment he had received from Lycaon, had re-
de Fluv. 8, 10, 19, 22; Athen. ill. p. 80, f. ; Clem. solved to destroy the degenerate race of men who
Alex. Strom. i. p. 139, ed. Sulb. ; Schol. ud Eur. inhabited the earth, Deucalion, on the advice of
Troad. 14; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. his father, built a ship, and carried into it stores
417. )
[E. E. ) of provisions; and when Zeus sent a flood all over
DE'RCINUS (Aépkuros), a son of Poseidon Hellas, which destroyed all its inhabitants, Deuca-
and brother of Albion. (Apollod. ii. 5. § 10. ) | lion and Pyrrha alone were saved. After their
Pomponius Iela (ii. 5) calls him Bergion. [L. S. ] ship had been floating about for nine days, it land-
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DEVERRA.
DEXIPPUS.
At
cil, according to the common tradition, on mount from entering the house, and were looked upon as
l'amassus; others made it land on mount Othrys symbolic representations of civilized or agricultural
in Thessaly, on mount Athos, or even on Actna in life, since without an axe no trec can be felled, a
Sicily. (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. ix. 64; Serv. ail l'iry. pestle is necessary to pound the grain, and corn is
Icion. vi. 41 ; llygin. Ful. 153.
) These differ swept together with a broom. (Augustin, de Cir.
ences in the story are probably nothing but local | Dei, vi. 9; Ilartung, Die Relig. der Römer, ji.
traditions ; in the sime manner it was believed in p. 175. )
[L. S. ]
several places that Deucalion and Pyhrra were not DEXAMENUS (Actduevos), a centaur who
the only persons that were saved. Thus Vegarus, lived in Bura in Achaia, which town derived its
a son of Zeus, escaped by following the screams of name from his large stable for oxen. (Schol. ad
crines, which led him to the summit of mount Cullim. Ilymn. in Del. 102; Etymol. M. s. r. )
Gerania (Pruus. i. 40. § 1); and the inhabitants of According to others, he was a king of Olenus, and
Delphi were said to have been saved by following the father of Dežaneira, whom Heracles seduced
the bowling of wolves, which led them to the sum- during his stay with Dexamenus, who had hospi-
mit of Parnassus, where they founded Lycorcia. tably received him. Heracles on parting promised
(Paus. X. 6. $ 2. ) When the waters had subsided, to return and marry her. But in his absence the
Deucalion offered up a sacrifice to Zeus Phyxius, centaur Eurytion sued for Dežaneira's hand, and
that is, the helper of fugitives, and thereupon the her father out of fear promised her to him. On
god sent llermes to him to promise that he would the wedding day lleracles returned and slew Eu-
grant any wish which Deucalion might entertain. rytion. (Hygin. Fab. 33. ) Dežaneira is usually
Deucalion prayed that Zeus might restore mankind. called a daughter of Oeneus, but Apollodorus (ii. 5.
According to the more common tradition, Deucalion (5) calls the daughter of Dexamenus, Mnesimache,
and Pyrrha went to the sanctuary of Themis, and and Diodorus (ir. 33) Hippolyte. [L. S. ]
prayed for the same thing. The goddess bade DEXICRATES (Aegikpatns), an Athenian
them cover their heads and throw the bones of comic poet of the new comedy, whose drama enti-
their mother behind them in walking from the tled 'TO ĆavtWv alavuueroi is quoted by Athe-
temple. After some doubts and scruples respecting naeus (iii. p. 124, b). Suidas (s. r. ) also refers to
the meaning of this command, they agreed in in the passage in Athenaeus. (Heineke, Frag. Com.
terpreting the bones of their mother to mean the Gruec. i. p. 492, iv. p. 571. )
[P. S. ]
stones of the earth; and they accordingly threw DEXIPPUS (AĆELATOS), a Lacedaemonian, was
stones behind then, and from those thrown by residing at Gela when Sicily was invaded for
Deucalion there sprang up men, and from those of the second time by the Carthaginians under Han-
Pyrrha women. Deucalion then descended from nibal, the grandson of Hamilcar, in B. C. 406.
Parnassus, and built his first abode at Opus (Pind. the request of the Agrigentines, on whom the storm
01. ix. 46), or at Cynus (Strab. ix. p. 425; Schol. first fell
, he came to their aid with a body of mer-
ad Pind. Ol. ix. 6+), where in later times the cenaries which he had collected for the purpose ;
tomb of Pyrrha was shewn. Concerning the whole but did not escape the charge of corruption and
story, see Apollod. i. 7. S 2; Ov. Met. i. 260, &c. treachery which proved fatal to four of the Agri-
There was also a tradition that Deucalion had gentine generals. When the defence of Agrigen-
lived at Athens, and the sanctuary of the Olym- tum became hopeless, Dexippus returned to Gela,
pian Zeus there was regarded as his work, and his the protection of that place having been assigned
tomb also was shewn there in the neighbourhood him by the Syracusans, who formed the main stay
of the sanctuary. (Paus. i. 18. § 8. ) Deucalion of the Grecian interest in the island. Not long
was by Pyrrha the father of Hellen, Amphictyon, after, he was dismissed from Sicily by Dionysius,
Protogeneia, and others. Strabo (ix. p. 435) | whose objects in Gela he had refused to aid.
states, that near the coast of Phthiotis there were (Diod. xiii. 85, 87, 88, 93, 96. ) [E. E. ]
two small islands of the name of Deucalion and DEXIPPUS ( SÉEITOS), a comic poet of
Pyrrha,
Athens, respecting whom no particulars are known.
2. A son of Minos and Pasiphaë or Crete, was Suidas (s. v. Kwpukaius) mentions one of his plays
an Argonaut and one of the ydonian hunters. entitled on ós, and Eudocia (p. 132) has pre-
He was the father of Idomeneus and Molus. served the titles of four others, viz. 'AVTiT OPVO-
(Ηom. ΙΙ. xiii. 451 ; Αpollod. iii. 1. 8 2, 3. 81; βοσκός, Φιλάργυρος, Ιστοριογράφος, and Διαδικα-
Diod. iv. 60; Hygin. Fal. 14, 173; Serr. ad Aen. Sóuevoi. Meineke in his Hist. Crit. Com. Graec.
iii. 121. )
has overlooked this poet.
[L. S. ]
3. A son of Hyperasius and Hypso, and brother DEXIPPUS (ACELTTITOS), a
of Amphion. (Val. Flacc. i. 366; comp. Apollon. Plato and Aristotle
, was a disciple of the Neo-
Rhod. i. 176. )
Platonic philosopher Iamblichus, and lived in the
4. A son of Heracles by a daughter of Thespius. middle of the fourth century of the Christian era.
(Hygin. Fab. 162. )
We still possess a commentary of Dexippus on the
5. A Trojan, who was slain by Achilles. (Hom. Categories of Aristotle, in the form of a dialogue,
1. xx. 477. )
[L. S. ) which, however, is printed only in a Latin trans-
DEVERRA, one of the three symbolic beings-lation. It appeared at Paris, 1549, 8vo. , under the
their names are Pilumnus, Intercidona, and De- title of “Quaestionum in Categorias libri tres, in-
verra—whose influence was sought by the Romans, terprete J. Bernardo Feliciano," and again at Venice,
at the birth of a child, as a protection for the mo- 1546, fo. , after the work of Porphyry In Prae-
ther against the vexations of Sylvanus. The night dicam. The Greek title in the Madrid Codex is,
after the birth of a child, three men walked around | Δεξίππου φιλοσόφου Πλατωνικού των εις τας
the house : the first struck the threshold with an | 'Αριστοτέλους Κατηγορίας Αποριών τε και Λύσεων
axe, the second knocked upon it with a pestle, Kepáda a u'.
and the third swept it with a broom. These sym- In this work the author explains to one Seleucus
bolic actions were believed to prevent Sylvanus the Aristotelian Categories, and endeavours at the
commentator on
3 s 2
## p. 996 (#1016) ###########################################
906
DEXIPPUS.
DIADUMENIANUS.
same time to refute the objections of Plotinus. twelfth being quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium
(Plotin. Ennead. vi. 1, 2, 3; comp. Simplic. al (s. v. "Enoupoi), and it frequently referred to by
Arist. Categ. fol. 1, a. ; Tzetzes, Chiliad. ix. Ilist. the writers of the Augustan history. (Limprid.
274. )
Aloa'
. Sev. 49; Capitolin. Maximin. Jun. 6, Tres
Specimens of the Greek text are to be found in Gord. 2, 9, Nazim. et Bulbin. 1; Treb. Poll.
Iriarte, Col. Bill. Matrit. Catalog. pp. 135, 274, Gullien. 15, Trig. Tur. 32, Claud.
treat on the subject of peace in B. c. 347. In B. C. (Xen. Hell. v. 2, 3 ; Diod. xv. 19-23. ) We learn
346, the same ambassadors appear to have been from Theopompus (ap. Athen. X. p. 436, d. ), that
again deputed to ratify the treaty. (See the he was taken prisoner by the Olynthians, but it
Argument prefixed to Dem. de Fals. Lrg. p. 336 ; does not appear on what occasion ; nor is it certain
Aesch. de Fals. Leg. p. 41 ; Thirwall's Grecce, whether he is the same Derdas to whom Aristotle
vol. v. p. 356; comp. the decree ap. Dem. de Cor. alludes. (Polit. v. 10, ed. Bekk. ) Derdas, whose
p. 235; Classical Museum, vol. i. p. 145. ) Der sister Phila was one of the wives of Philip, was
cylus was also one of the envoys in the third probably a different person, though of the same
embassy (end tous 'Auoktúovas), which was ap- family. (Ath. xiii. p. 557, c. )
[E. E. )
pointed to convey to Philip, then marching upon DERRHIA'TIS (Aepoiétis), a surname of Ar-
Phocis, the complimentary and cordial decree of temis, which she derived from the town of Der-
Philocrates, and to attend the Amphictyonic coun- rhion on the road from Sparta to Arcadia. (Paus.
cil that was about to be convened on the affairs of iii. 20. $ 7. )
[L. S. ]
Phocis. When, however, the ambassadors had DESIDE'RIUS, brother of Magnentius, by
reached Chalcis in Euboea, they heard of the de- whom he was created Caesar and soon after put to
struction of the Phocian towns by Philip, and of death, when the tyrant, finding that his position
his having taken part entirely with the Thebans, was hopeless, in a transport of rage, massacred all
and Dercylus returned to Athens with the alarm- his relations and friends, and then, to avoid falling
ing news ; but the embassy was still desired to into the power of his rival, perished by his own
proceed. (Aesch. de Fals. Leg. pp. 40, 46, c. Ctes. p. hands. According to Zonaras, however, Deside-
05; Dem. de Cor. p. 237, de Fals. Leg. pp. 360, rius was not actually killed, but only grievously
379. ) It is perhaps the same Dercylus whom Plutarch wounded, and upon his recovery surrendered to
mentions as “ general of the country” (TOÛ ÊTrì Tņs Constantius. No genuine medals of this prince
xopas otpatnyoû, in B. c. 318). When Nicanor, are extant. (Zonar. xiii. 9; Julian, Orat. frag. ;
having been called on to withdraw the Macedonian Chron. Alexand. p. 680, ed. 1615 ; Eckhel, vol.
garrison from Munychia, consented to attend a viji. p. 121. )
[11. R. ]
meeting of the council in the Peiraeeus, Dercylus DESILA'US (Acoinaos), a statuary, whose
formed a design to seize him, but he became aware | Doryphorus and wounded Amazon are identioned
of it in time to escape. Dercylus is also said to by Pliny (xxxiv. 8. s. 19. & 15). There is no reason
have warned Phocion in vain of Nicanor's inten- to believe, with Meyer and Müller, that the name
tion of making himself master of the Peiraeeus. is a corruption of Ctesilaüs; but, on the contrary,
(Plut. Phoc. 32; Nep. Phoc. 2; Droysen, Gesch. the wounded Amazon in the Vatican, which they
der Nachf. Alex. p. 223. )
(E. E. ] take for a copy of the work of Ctesilaüs, is proba-
DERCYLUS or DERCYLLUS (Aepkúaos, bly copied from the Amazon of Desilaüs. (Ross,
Aépkulos), a very ancient Greek writer, men- Kunstblatt, for 1840, No. 12. ) [CRESILAS. ] [P. S. ]
tioned several times in connexion with Agias, the DESPOENA (Aéoroiva), the ruling goddess or
latter being a different person probably from the the mistress, occurs as a surname of several divini-
author of the Nóotoi, with whom Meineke identities, such as Aphrodite (Theocrit. xv. 100), De-
fies him. We find the following works of Der- meter (Aristoph. Thesm. 286), and Persephone.
cylus referred to: 1. 'Αργολικά. 2. ’Italirá. (Paus. viii. 37. S 6; comp. PERSEPHONE. ) (L. S. ]
3. Αίτολικά. 4. Κτίσεις. 5. Σατυρικά, appa- DEUCA'LION (Aeukaliwv). 1. A son of Pro-
rently on the fables relating to the Satyrs. 6. llep metheus and Clymene. He was king in Phthia,
opwv. 7. Ilepi aitwr. The exact period at which and married to Pyrrba. When Zeus, after the
he flourished is uncertain. (Plut. Par. Min. 17, 38, treatment he had received from Lycaon, had re-
de Fluv. 8, 10, 19, 22; Athen. ill. p. 80, f. ; Clem. solved to destroy the degenerate race of men who
Alex. Strom. i. p. 139, ed. Sulb. ; Schol. ud Eur. inhabited the earth, Deucalion, on the advice of
Troad. 14; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. his father, built a ship, and carried into it stores
417. )
[E. E. ) of provisions; and when Zeus sent a flood all over
DE'RCINUS (Aépkuros), a son of Poseidon Hellas, which destroyed all its inhabitants, Deuca-
and brother of Albion. (Apollod. ii. 5. § 10. ) | lion and Pyrrha alone were saved. After their
Pomponius Iela (ii. 5) calls him Bergion. [L. S. ] ship had been floating about for nine days, it land-
## p. 995 (#1015) ###########################################
DEVERRA.
DEXIPPUS.
At
cil, according to the common tradition, on mount from entering the house, and were looked upon as
l'amassus; others made it land on mount Othrys symbolic representations of civilized or agricultural
in Thessaly, on mount Athos, or even on Actna in life, since without an axe no trec can be felled, a
Sicily. (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. ix. 64; Serv. ail l'iry. pestle is necessary to pound the grain, and corn is
Icion. vi. 41 ; llygin. Ful. 153.
) These differ swept together with a broom. (Augustin, de Cir.
ences in the story are probably nothing but local | Dei, vi. 9; Ilartung, Die Relig. der Römer, ji.
traditions ; in the sime manner it was believed in p. 175. )
[L. S. ]
several places that Deucalion and Pyhrra were not DEXAMENUS (Actduevos), a centaur who
the only persons that were saved. Thus Vegarus, lived in Bura in Achaia, which town derived its
a son of Zeus, escaped by following the screams of name from his large stable for oxen. (Schol. ad
crines, which led him to the summit of mount Cullim. Ilymn. in Del. 102; Etymol. M. s. r. )
Gerania (Pruus. i. 40. § 1); and the inhabitants of According to others, he was a king of Olenus, and
Delphi were said to have been saved by following the father of Dežaneira, whom Heracles seduced
the bowling of wolves, which led them to the sum- during his stay with Dexamenus, who had hospi-
mit of Parnassus, where they founded Lycorcia. tably received him. Heracles on parting promised
(Paus. X. 6. $ 2. ) When the waters had subsided, to return and marry her. But in his absence the
Deucalion offered up a sacrifice to Zeus Phyxius, centaur Eurytion sued for Dežaneira's hand, and
that is, the helper of fugitives, and thereupon the her father out of fear promised her to him. On
god sent llermes to him to promise that he would the wedding day lleracles returned and slew Eu-
grant any wish which Deucalion might entertain. rytion. (Hygin. Fab. 33. ) Dežaneira is usually
Deucalion prayed that Zeus might restore mankind. called a daughter of Oeneus, but Apollodorus (ii. 5.
According to the more common tradition, Deucalion (5) calls the daughter of Dexamenus, Mnesimache,
and Pyrrha went to the sanctuary of Themis, and and Diodorus (ir. 33) Hippolyte. [L. S. ]
prayed for the same thing. The goddess bade DEXICRATES (Aegikpatns), an Athenian
them cover their heads and throw the bones of comic poet of the new comedy, whose drama enti-
their mother behind them in walking from the tled 'TO ĆavtWv alavuueroi is quoted by Athe-
temple. After some doubts and scruples respecting naeus (iii. p. 124, b). Suidas (s. r. ) also refers to
the meaning of this command, they agreed in in the passage in Athenaeus. (Heineke, Frag. Com.
terpreting the bones of their mother to mean the Gruec. i. p. 492, iv. p. 571. )
[P. S. ]
stones of the earth; and they accordingly threw DEXIPPUS (AĆELATOS), a Lacedaemonian, was
stones behind then, and from those thrown by residing at Gela when Sicily was invaded for
Deucalion there sprang up men, and from those of the second time by the Carthaginians under Han-
Pyrrha women. Deucalion then descended from nibal, the grandson of Hamilcar, in B. C. 406.
Parnassus, and built his first abode at Opus (Pind. the request of the Agrigentines, on whom the storm
01. ix. 46), or at Cynus (Strab. ix. p. 425; Schol. first fell
, he came to their aid with a body of mer-
ad Pind. Ol. ix. 6+), where in later times the cenaries which he had collected for the purpose ;
tomb of Pyrrha was shewn. Concerning the whole but did not escape the charge of corruption and
story, see Apollod. i. 7. S 2; Ov. Met. i. 260, &c. treachery which proved fatal to four of the Agri-
There was also a tradition that Deucalion had gentine generals. When the defence of Agrigen-
lived at Athens, and the sanctuary of the Olym- tum became hopeless, Dexippus returned to Gela,
pian Zeus there was regarded as his work, and his the protection of that place having been assigned
tomb also was shewn there in the neighbourhood him by the Syracusans, who formed the main stay
of the sanctuary. (Paus. i. 18. § 8. ) Deucalion of the Grecian interest in the island. Not long
was by Pyrrha the father of Hellen, Amphictyon, after, he was dismissed from Sicily by Dionysius,
Protogeneia, and others. Strabo (ix. p. 435) | whose objects in Gela he had refused to aid.
states, that near the coast of Phthiotis there were (Diod. xiii. 85, 87, 88, 93, 96. ) [E. E. ]
two small islands of the name of Deucalion and DEXIPPUS ( SÉEITOS), a comic poet of
Pyrrha,
Athens, respecting whom no particulars are known.
2. A son of Minos and Pasiphaë or Crete, was Suidas (s. v. Kwpukaius) mentions one of his plays
an Argonaut and one of the ydonian hunters. entitled on ós, and Eudocia (p. 132) has pre-
He was the father of Idomeneus and Molus. served the titles of four others, viz. 'AVTiT OPVO-
(Ηom. ΙΙ. xiii. 451 ; Αpollod. iii. 1. 8 2, 3. 81; βοσκός, Φιλάργυρος, Ιστοριογράφος, and Διαδικα-
Diod. iv. 60; Hygin. Fal. 14, 173; Serr. ad Aen. Sóuevoi. Meineke in his Hist. Crit. Com. Graec.
iii. 121. )
has overlooked this poet.
[L. S. ]
3. A son of Hyperasius and Hypso, and brother DEXIPPUS (ACELTTITOS), a
of Amphion. (Val. Flacc. i. 366; comp. Apollon. Plato and Aristotle
, was a disciple of the Neo-
Rhod. i. 176. )
Platonic philosopher Iamblichus, and lived in the
4. A son of Heracles by a daughter of Thespius. middle of the fourth century of the Christian era.
(Hygin. Fab. 162. )
We still possess a commentary of Dexippus on the
5. A Trojan, who was slain by Achilles. (Hom. Categories of Aristotle, in the form of a dialogue,
1. xx. 477. )
[L. S. ) which, however, is printed only in a Latin trans-
DEVERRA, one of the three symbolic beings-lation. It appeared at Paris, 1549, 8vo. , under the
their names are Pilumnus, Intercidona, and De- title of “Quaestionum in Categorias libri tres, in-
verra—whose influence was sought by the Romans, terprete J. Bernardo Feliciano," and again at Venice,
at the birth of a child, as a protection for the mo- 1546, fo. , after the work of Porphyry In Prae-
ther against the vexations of Sylvanus. The night dicam. The Greek title in the Madrid Codex is,
after the birth of a child, three men walked around | Δεξίππου φιλοσόφου Πλατωνικού των εις τας
the house : the first struck the threshold with an | 'Αριστοτέλους Κατηγορίας Αποριών τε και Λύσεων
axe, the second knocked upon it with a pestle, Kepáda a u'.
and the third swept it with a broom. These sym- In this work the author explains to one Seleucus
bolic actions were believed to prevent Sylvanus the Aristotelian Categories, and endeavours at the
commentator on
3 s 2
## p. 996 (#1016) ###########################################
906
DEXIPPUS.
DIADUMENIANUS.
same time to refute the objections of Plotinus. twelfth being quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium
(Plotin. Ennead. vi. 1, 2, 3; comp. Simplic. al (s. v. "Enoupoi), and it frequently referred to by
Arist. Categ. fol. 1, a. ; Tzetzes, Chiliad. ix. Ilist. the writers of the Augustan history. (Limprid.
274. )
Aloa'
. Sev. 49; Capitolin. Maximin. Jun. 6, Tres
Specimens of the Greek text are to be found in Gord. 2, 9, Nazim. et Bulbin. 1; Treb. Poll.
Iriarte, Col. Bill. Matrit. Catalog. pp. 135, 274, Gullien. 15, Trig. Tur. 32, Claud.
