If we add to these par- said to one of his men, “ I am old and weary of
ticulars the facts, that he was elevated to the rank life; but you, whom I love above all men, are
of proconsul, enjoyed great celebrity as a poet, and young, and may yet be happy.
ticulars the facts, that he was elevated to the rank life; but you, whom I love above all men, are
of proconsul, enjoyed great celebrity as a poet, and young, and may yet be happy.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
p.
5; Comment.
in
human life should be cast out of the country. Hippocr. “ Praedict. I. ” ii. 52, vol. xvi. p. 625;
(Paus. vi. 11; Suid. s. v. Nixwv. ) From Suidas Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Nal. Hom. ” ii. 1, vol.
we learn that Dracon died at Aegina, being smo- xv. p. 1ll; Thessali, Orat. ad Aram, and Sorani
thered by the number of hats and cloaks showered Vita Hippocr. in Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. pp. 842,
upon him as a popular mark of honour in the thea- 855. ) Galen tells us that some of the writings of
tre. (Suid. s. vv. Apákwv, neplayerpóuevot; Kuster, Hippocrates were attributed to his son Dracon.
ad Suid. s. v. 'AxpóSpva. ) His legislation is re- Dracon II. Was, according to Suidas (s. r.
ferred by general testimony to the 39th Olympiad, Apákwv), the son of Thessalus, and the fa-
in the fourth year of which (B. C. 621) Clinton is ther of Hippocrates (probably Hippocrates IV. ).
disposed to place it, so as to bring Eusebius into If this be correct, he was the nineteenth of the
exact agreement with the other authorities on the family of the Asclepiadae, the brother of Gorgias
subject. Of the immediate occasion which led to and Hippocrates III. , and lived probably in the
these laws we have no account. C. F. Hermann fourth century B. C.
(1. c. ) and Thirlwall (Greece, vol. ii. p. 18) are of Dracon Ill. is said by Suidas (s. v. Apdrwv)
opinion, that the people demanded a written code to have been the son of Hippocrates (probably
to replace the mere customary law, of which the Hippocrates IV. ), and to have been one of the
Eupatridae were the sole expounders ; and that physicians to Roxana, the wife of Alexander the
the latter, unable to resist the demand, gladly Great, in the fourth century B. C.
sanctioned the rigorous enactments of Dracon as There is, however, certainly some confusion in
adnpted to check the democratic movement which | Suidas, and perhaps the origin of the mistakes
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may be his making Dracon I. and Dracon II. two (Isidorus, de Scrip. Eccl. c. 24; Honorius, de
distinct persons, by calling Dracon 11. the grandsom, Scrip. Ecclcs. lib. iii. c. 28; Ildefonsus, de Scrip.
instead of the son of Hippocrates II. (W. A. G. ] Eccles. c. 14, all of whom will be found in the
DRACO'NTIDES (Apakovtidns), one of the Bibliotheca Ecclesiasticu oi Fabricius. )
thirty tyrants established at Athens in B. C. 404. Tbe Dracontius mentioned above must not be
(Xen. Hell. ii. 3. & 2. ) He is in all probability confounded with the Dracontius to whom Athana-
the same whom Lysias mentions (c. Erat. p. 126), sius addressed an epistle ; nor with the Dracon-
as having framed at that time the constitution, tius on whom Palladius bestowed the epithets of
according to which the Athenians were to be go- év8o&os and Savuaotós; nor with the Dracontius,
verned under their new rulers; and he is perhaps bishop of Pergamus, named by Socrates and Sozo-
also the disreputable person alluded to by Aristo- menus.
(W. R. )
phanes as having been frequently condemned in DREPA'NIUS. It became a common practice,
the Athenian courts of justice. (Vesp. 157; Schol. in the times of Diocletian and his immediate suc-
ad loc. , comp. 438. )
[E. E. ) cessors, for provincial states, especially the cities of
DRACO'NTIUS, a Christian poet, of whose Gaul, at that period peculiarly celebrated as the
personal history we know nothing, except that he nursing-mother of orators, to despatch deputations
was a Spanish presbyter, flourished during the first from time to time to the imperial court, for the
half of the fifth century, and died about A. D. 450. | purpose of presenting congratulatory addresses apon
His chief production, entitled lleraëincron, he- the occurrence of any auspicious event, of returning
roic measure, extending to 575 lines, contains a thanks for past benefits, and of soliciting a renewal
description of the six days of the creation, in addi- or continuance of favour and protection. The in-
tion to which we possess a fragment in 198 elegiac dividual in each community most renowned for his
verses addressed to the younger Theodosius, in rhetorical skill would naturally be chosen to draw
which the author implores forgiveness of God for up and deliver the complimentary harangue, which
certain errors in his greater work, and excuses was usually recited in the presence of the prince
himself to the emperor for having neglected to ce- himself. Eleven pieces of this description liave
lebrate his victories. Although the Hexaëmeron been transmitted to us, which have been generally
is by no means destitute of spirit, and plainly in- published together, under the title of “ Duodecim
dicates that the writer had studied carefully the Panegyrici veteres," the speech of Pliny in honour
models of classical antiquity, we can by no means of Trajan being included to round off the number,
adopt the criticism of Isidorus : “Dracontius com- although belonging to a different age, and possessing
posuit heroicis versibus Hexaëmeron creationis very superior claims upon our notice, while some
mundi et luculenter, quod composuit, scripsit," if editors have added also the poem of Corippus in
we are to understand that any degree of clearness praise of the younger Justin. (CORIPPUS. ] Of
or perspicuity is implied by the word luculenter, the eleven which may with propriety be classed to-
for nothing is more characteristic of this piece than gether, the first bears the name of Claudius Ma-
obscurity of thought and perplexity of expression. mertinus, who was probably the composer of the
Indeed these defects are sometimes pushed to such second also [MAMERTINUS]; the third, fourth,
extravagant excess, that we feel disposed to agree sixth, and seventh are all ascribed to Eumenius,
with Barthius (Advers. xxiii. 19), that Dracontius with what justice is discussed elsewhere [EUME-
did not always understand himself.
NIUS); the ninth is the work of Nazarius, who
It is to be observed that the Hexaëmeron exists appears to have written the eighth likewise; the
under two forms. It was published in its original tenth belongs to a Mamertinus different from the
shape along with the Genesis of Claudius Marius personage mentioned above ; the eleventh is the
Victor, at Paris, 8vo. 1560 ; in the “Corpus Chris- production of Drepanius, but the author of the fifth,
tianorum Poetarum," edited by G. Fabricius, Basil. in honour of the nuptials of Constantine with
4to. 1564 ; with the notes of Weitzius, Franc. Fauston the daughter of Maximianus (A. D. 307),
8vo. 1610; in the “ Magna Bibliotheca Patrum," is altogether unknown.
Colon. fol. 1618, vol. vi. par. 1; and in the “ Bib Discourses of this description must for the most
liotheca Patrum," Paris, fol. 1624, vol. viii. part be as devoid of all sincerity and truth as they
In the course of the seventh century, however, are, from their very nature, destitute of all genuine
Eugenins, bishop of Toledo, by the orders of king feeling or passion, and hence, at best, resolve them-
Chindasuindus, undertook to revise, correct, and selves into a mere cold display of artistic dexterity,
improve the Six Days; and, not content with re- where the attention of the audience is kept alive
pairing and beautifying the old structure, supplied by a succession of epigrammatic points, carefully
what he considered a defect in the plan by adding balanced antitheses, elaborate metaphors, and well-
an account of the Seventh Day. In this manner tuned cadences, where the manner is everything,
the performance was extended to 634 lines. The the matter nothing. To look to such sources for
enlarged edition was first published by Sirmond historical information is obviously absurd. Success
along with the Opuscula of Eugenius, Paris, 8vo. would in every case be grossly exaggerated, defeat
1619. In the second volume of Sirmond's works carefully concealed, or interpreted to mean victory.
(Ven. 1728), p. 890, we read the letter of Euge. The friends and allies of the sovereign would be
nius to Chindasuindus, from which we learn that daubed with fulsome praise, his enemies over-
the prelate engaged in the task by the commands whelmed by a load of the foulest calumnies. We
of that prince ; and in p. 903 we find the Elegy cannot learn what the course of events really was,
addressed to Theodosius. The Eugenian version but merely under what aspect the ruling powers
was reprinted by Ririnus, Lips. 8vo. 1651, and in desired that those events should be viewed, and
the “ Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum,” Lugdun. vol. frequently the misrepresentations are so fingrant
ix. p. 724. More recent editions have appeared that we are unable to detect even a vestige of truth
by F. Areralus, Rom. 4to. 1791, and by J. B. lurking below. We derive from these effusions
Carpzovius, Helmst. 8vo. 1794.
some knowledge with regard to the personal history
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DROMICHAETES.
ܪ
of particular individuals which is not to be obtained cc. 2 and 24 ; Auson. Prarf. Epigramm. , Lud.
elsewhere, and from the style we can draw some Sept. Sup. , Technopaegn. , Gramaticomast. , Idyl. vii. ;
conclusions with regard to the state of the language Symmach. Epist. viii. 12, ix. 58, 69. ) [W. R. ]
and the tone of literary taste at the commencement DRIMACUS (Apluakos), a fabulous leader of
of the fourth century; but, considered as a whole, revolted slaves in Chios. The Chians are said to
antiquity has bequeathed to us nothing more have been the first who purchased slaves, for
worthless.
which they were punished by the gods, for many
Latinus Pacatus DREPANIUS was a native of of the slaves thus obtained escaped to the moun-
Aquitania, as we lcarn from himself and from Si- tains of the island, and from thence made destruc-
donius, the friend of Ausonius, who inscribes to tive inroads into the possessions of their former
him several pieces in very complimentary dedica- masters. After a long and useless warfare, the
tions, and the correspondent of Symmachus, by Chians concluded a treaty with Drimacus, the
whom he is addressed in three epistles still extant. brave and successful leader of the slaves, who put
He was sent from his native province to congratu- an end to the ravages. Drimacus now received
late Theodosius on the victory achieved over among his band only those slaves who had run away
Maximus, and delivered the panegyric which through the bad treatment they had experienced.
stands last in the collection described above, at But afterwards the Chians offered a prize for his
Rome, in the presence of the emperor, probably in head. The noble slave-leader, on hearing this,
the autumn of A. 1). 391.
If we add to these par- said to one of his men, “ I am old and weary of
ticulars the facts, that he was elevated to the rank life; but you, whom I love above all men, are
of proconsul, enjoyed great celebrity as a poet, and young, and may yet be happy. Therefore take
was descended from a father who bore the same my head, carry it into the town and receive the
name with himself, the sources from which our in- prize for it. ” This was done accordingly; but,
formation is derived are exhausted.
after the death of Drimacus, the disturbances
The oration, while it partakes of the vices which among the slaves became worse than ever; and
disfigure the other members of the family to which the Chians then, seeing of what service he had
it belongs, is less extravagant in its hyperboles been to them, built him a heroum, which they
than many of its companions, and although the called the heroum of the ñpws eúuerns. The
language is a sort of hybrid progeny, formed by slaves sacrificed to him a portion of their booty;
the union of poetry and prose, there is a certain and whenever the slaves meditated any outrage,
splendour of diction, a flowing copiousness of ex- Drimacus appeared to their masters in a dream to
pression, and even a vigour of thought, which caution them. (Athen. vi. p. 265. ) [L. S. ]
remind us at times of the florid graces of the DRIMO (Apuw), the name of two mythical
Asiatic school. How far the merits of Drepanius personages. (Hygin. Fab. Praef. p. 2; Eustalli.
as a bard may have justified the decision of the ad Hom. p. 776. )
(L. S. )
critic who pronounces him second to Virgil only DROMEUS (Δρομεύς). l. Of Mantineia, a
(Auson. Praef. Epigramm. Idyll. vii. ), it is impos- victor in the Olympian games, who gained the
sible for us to determine, as not a fragment of his prize in the pancratium in Ol. 75. (Paus. vi. 6.
efforts in this department has been preserved. $ 2, 11. & 2. )
He must not be confounded with Florus Drepanius, 2. Of Stymphalus, twice won the prize at Olym-
a writer of hymns.
pia in the dolichos, but it is not known in what
The Editio Princeps of the Panegyrici Veteres years. He also gained two prizes at the Pythian,
is in quarto, in Roman characters, without place, three at the Isthmian, and five at the Nemean
date, or printer's name, but is believed to have games. He is said to have first introduced the
appeared at Milan about 1482, and includes, in custom of feeding the athletes with meat. There
addition to the twelve orations usually associated was a statue of his at Olympia, which was the
together, the life of Agricola by Tacitus, and frag-work of Pythagoras. (Paus. vi. 7. & 3; Plin. H.
ments of Petronius Arbiter, with a preface by N. xxxiv. 8, 19. )
(L. S. ]
Franc. Puteolanus, addressed to Jac. Antiquarius. DROMICHAETES (Apouixaltas). 1. A king
Another very ancient impression in 4to. , without of the Getae, contemporary with Lysimachus, king
place, date, or printer's name, containing the twelve of Thrace, and known to us only by his victory
orations alone, probably belongs to Venice, about over that monarch. He first defeated and took
1499. The most useful editions are those of prisoner Agathocles, the son of Lysimachus, but
Schwarzius, 4to. , Ven. 1728; of Jaegerus, which sent him back to his father without ransom, hoping
presents a new recension of the text, with a valu- thus to gain the favour of Lysimachus. The latter,
able commentary, and comprehends the poem of however, thereupon invaded the territories of Dro-
Corippus, 2 tom. 8vo. , Noremberg. 1779; and of michaetes in person, with a large army; but soon
Arntzenius, which excludes Drepanius, with very became involved in great difficulties, and was ulti-
copious notes and apparatus criticus, 2 tom. 4to. , mately taken prisoner with his whole force. Dro-
Traj. ad Rhen. 1790-97. The edition published michaetes treated his captive in the most generous
at Paris, 12mo. , 1613, with notes by many com- manner, and after entertaining him in regal style,
mentators, bears the title “XIV Panegyrici set him at liberty again on condition of Lysimachus
Veteres,” in consequence of the addition of Pane- giving him his daughter in marriage and restoring
Eyrics by Ausonius and Ennodius.
the conquests he had made from the Getae to the
In illustration we have T. G. Walch, Dissertatio north of the Danube. (Diod. E. rc. Peiresc. xxi.
de Panegyricis veterum, 4to. , Jenae, 1721; T. G. p. 559, ed. Wess. , Exc. Vatic. xxi. p. 49, ed. Dind. ;
Moerlin, de Panegyricis veterum programma, 4to. , Strab. vii. pp. 302, 305 ; Plut. Demetr. 39, 52;
Noremb. 1738; and Heyne, Censura XII Pare- Polyaen. vii. 25; Memnon, c. 5, ed. Orell. ) Pau-
gyricorum veterum, in his Opuscula Academica, vol. sanias, indeed, gives a different account of the
vi. p. 80.
transaction, according to which Lysimachus him-
(Sidon. Apollin. Epist. viii. 12; comp. Panegyr. I self escaped, but his son Agathocles having fallen
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into the power of the enemy, he was compelled to what to do. It was impiety to mourn the goddess,
purchase his liberation by concluding a treaty on and it was death not to mourn the woman. Seve-
the terms already mentioned. (Paus. i. 9. § 6. ) ral suffered death for entertaining a relative or
The dominions of Dromichaetes appear to have ex- guest, or saluting a friend, or taking a bath, in the
tended from the Danube to the Carpathians, and days that followed her funeral
. (Dion Cass. lix. ll;
his subjects are spoken of by Pausanias as both Senec. Consol. ad Polyb. 36. )
numerous and warlike. (Paus. I. c. ; Strab. vii. 3. JULIA DRUSILLA, the daughter of the
pp. 304, 305; Niebuhr, Kleine Schriften, p. 379; emperor Caius (Caligula) by his wife Caesonia.
Droysen, Nachfolg. Alex. p. 589. )
She was born, according to Suetonius (Caligula,
2. A leader of Thracian mercenaries (probably 25), on the day of her mother's marriage, or, ac-
of the tribe of the Getae) in the service of Antio- cording to Dio (lix. 29), thirty days afterwards.
chus II. (Polyaen. iv. 16. )
On the day of her birth, she was carried by her
3. One of the generals of Mithridates, probably father round the temples of all the goddesses, and
a Thracian by birth, who was sent by him with an placed upon the knee of Minerva, to whose patron-
army to the support of Archelaus in Greece. (Ap- age he commended her maintenance and educa-
pian. Mithr. 32, 41. )
(E. H. B. ] tion. Josephus (Ant. Jud. xix. 2) relates, that
DROMOCLEIDES (Apopokleions) of Sphetius, Caligula pronounced it to be a doubtful question
an Attic orator of the time of Demetrius Phalereus, whether he or Jupiter had the greater share in her
who exercised a great influence upon public affairs paternity. She gave early proof of her legiti-
at Athens by his servile fattery of Demetrius macy by the ferocity and cruelty of her disposition,
Poliorcetes. (Plut. Demetr. 13, 14, Praecept. Polit. for, while yet an infant, she would tear with her
p. 798. )
(L. S. ] little nails the eyes and faces of the children who
DROMOCRIDES, or, as some read, Dro- played with her. On the day that her father was
mocleides, is mentioned by Fulgentius (Mythol. i. assassinated, she was killed by being dashed
17) as the author of a Theogony, but is otherwise against a wall, A. D. 41, when she was about two
unknown. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. i. p. 30. ) [L. S. ] years old.
DROMON (Apouwv). 1. An Athenian comic 4. DRUSILLA, daughter of Herodes Agrippa I. ,
poet of the middle comedy, from whose Yártpia king of the Jews, by his wife Cypros, and sister
two fragments are quoted by Athenaeus (vi. p. of Herodes Agrippa II. , was only six years old
240, d.
human life should be cast out of the country. Hippocr. “ Praedict. I. ” ii. 52, vol. xvi. p. 625;
(Paus. vi. 11; Suid. s. v. Nixwv. ) From Suidas Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Nal. Hom. ” ii. 1, vol.
we learn that Dracon died at Aegina, being smo- xv. p. 1ll; Thessali, Orat. ad Aram, and Sorani
thered by the number of hats and cloaks showered Vita Hippocr. in Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. pp. 842,
upon him as a popular mark of honour in the thea- 855. ) Galen tells us that some of the writings of
tre. (Suid. s. vv. Apákwv, neplayerpóuevot; Kuster, Hippocrates were attributed to his son Dracon.
ad Suid. s. v. 'AxpóSpva. ) His legislation is re- Dracon II. Was, according to Suidas (s. r.
ferred by general testimony to the 39th Olympiad, Apákwv), the son of Thessalus, and the fa-
in the fourth year of which (B. C. 621) Clinton is ther of Hippocrates (probably Hippocrates IV. ).
disposed to place it, so as to bring Eusebius into If this be correct, he was the nineteenth of the
exact agreement with the other authorities on the family of the Asclepiadae, the brother of Gorgias
subject. Of the immediate occasion which led to and Hippocrates III. , and lived probably in the
these laws we have no account. C. F. Hermann fourth century B. C.
(1. c. ) and Thirlwall (Greece, vol. ii. p. 18) are of Dracon Ill. is said by Suidas (s. v. Apdrwv)
opinion, that the people demanded a written code to have been the son of Hippocrates (probably
to replace the mere customary law, of which the Hippocrates IV. ), and to have been one of the
Eupatridae were the sole expounders ; and that physicians to Roxana, the wife of Alexander the
the latter, unable to resist the demand, gladly Great, in the fourth century B. C.
sanctioned the rigorous enactments of Dracon as There is, however, certainly some confusion in
adnpted to check the democratic movement which | Suidas, and perhaps the origin of the mistakes
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1073
DREPANIUS.
may be his making Dracon I. and Dracon II. two (Isidorus, de Scrip. Eccl. c. 24; Honorius, de
distinct persons, by calling Dracon 11. the grandsom, Scrip. Ecclcs. lib. iii. c. 28; Ildefonsus, de Scrip.
instead of the son of Hippocrates II. (W. A. G. ] Eccles. c. 14, all of whom will be found in the
DRACO'NTIDES (Apakovtidns), one of the Bibliotheca Ecclesiasticu oi Fabricius. )
thirty tyrants established at Athens in B. C. 404. Tbe Dracontius mentioned above must not be
(Xen. Hell. ii. 3. & 2. ) He is in all probability confounded with the Dracontius to whom Athana-
the same whom Lysias mentions (c. Erat. p. 126), sius addressed an epistle ; nor with the Dracon-
as having framed at that time the constitution, tius on whom Palladius bestowed the epithets of
according to which the Athenians were to be go- év8o&os and Savuaotós; nor with the Dracontius,
verned under their new rulers; and he is perhaps bishop of Pergamus, named by Socrates and Sozo-
also the disreputable person alluded to by Aristo- menus.
(W. R. )
phanes as having been frequently condemned in DREPA'NIUS. It became a common practice,
the Athenian courts of justice. (Vesp. 157; Schol. in the times of Diocletian and his immediate suc-
ad loc. , comp. 438. )
[E. E. ) cessors, for provincial states, especially the cities of
DRACO'NTIUS, a Christian poet, of whose Gaul, at that period peculiarly celebrated as the
personal history we know nothing, except that he nursing-mother of orators, to despatch deputations
was a Spanish presbyter, flourished during the first from time to time to the imperial court, for the
half of the fifth century, and died about A. D. 450. | purpose of presenting congratulatory addresses apon
His chief production, entitled lleraëincron, he- the occurrence of any auspicious event, of returning
roic measure, extending to 575 lines, contains a thanks for past benefits, and of soliciting a renewal
description of the six days of the creation, in addi- or continuance of favour and protection. The in-
tion to which we possess a fragment in 198 elegiac dividual in each community most renowned for his
verses addressed to the younger Theodosius, in rhetorical skill would naturally be chosen to draw
which the author implores forgiveness of God for up and deliver the complimentary harangue, which
certain errors in his greater work, and excuses was usually recited in the presence of the prince
himself to the emperor for having neglected to ce- himself. Eleven pieces of this description liave
lebrate his victories. Although the Hexaëmeron been transmitted to us, which have been generally
is by no means destitute of spirit, and plainly in- published together, under the title of “ Duodecim
dicates that the writer had studied carefully the Panegyrici veteres," the speech of Pliny in honour
models of classical antiquity, we can by no means of Trajan being included to round off the number,
adopt the criticism of Isidorus : “Dracontius com- although belonging to a different age, and possessing
posuit heroicis versibus Hexaëmeron creationis very superior claims upon our notice, while some
mundi et luculenter, quod composuit, scripsit," if editors have added also the poem of Corippus in
we are to understand that any degree of clearness praise of the younger Justin. (CORIPPUS. ] Of
or perspicuity is implied by the word luculenter, the eleven which may with propriety be classed to-
for nothing is more characteristic of this piece than gether, the first bears the name of Claudius Ma-
obscurity of thought and perplexity of expression. mertinus, who was probably the composer of the
Indeed these defects are sometimes pushed to such second also [MAMERTINUS]; the third, fourth,
extravagant excess, that we feel disposed to agree sixth, and seventh are all ascribed to Eumenius,
with Barthius (Advers. xxiii. 19), that Dracontius with what justice is discussed elsewhere [EUME-
did not always understand himself.
NIUS); the ninth is the work of Nazarius, who
It is to be observed that the Hexaëmeron exists appears to have written the eighth likewise; the
under two forms. It was published in its original tenth belongs to a Mamertinus different from the
shape along with the Genesis of Claudius Marius personage mentioned above ; the eleventh is the
Victor, at Paris, 8vo. 1560 ; in the “Corpus Chris- production of Drepanius, but the author of the fifth,
tianorum Poetarum," edited by G. Fabricius, Basil. in honour of the nuptials of Constantine with
4to. 1564 ; with the notes of Weitzius, Franc. Fauston the daughter of Maximianus (A. D. 307),
8vo. 1610; in the “ Magna Bibliotheca Patrum," is altogether unknown.
Colon. fol. 1618, vol. vi. par. 1; and in the “ Bib Discourses of this description must for the most
liotheca Patrum," Paris, fol. 1624, vol. viii. part be as devoid of all sincerity and truth as they
In the course of the seventh century, however, are, from their very nature, destitute of all genuine
Eugenins, bishop of Toledo, by the orders of king feeling or passion, and hence, at best, resolve them-
Chindasuindus, undertook to revise, correct, and selves into a mere cold display of artistic dexterity,
improve the Six Days; and, not content with re- where the attention of the audience is kept alive
pairing and beautifying the old structure, supplied by a succession of epigrammatic points, carefully
what he considered a defect in the plan by adding balanced antitheses, elaborate metaphors, and well-
an account of the Seventh Day. In this manner tuned cadences, where the manner is everything,
the performance was extended to 634 lines. The the matter nothing. To look to such sources for
enlarged edition was first published by Sirmond historical information is obviously absurd. Success
along with the Opuscula of Eugenius, Paris, 8vo. would in every case be grossly exaggerated, defeat
1619. In the second volume of Sirmond's works carefully concealed, or interpreted to mean victory.
(Ven. 1728), p. 890, we read the letter of Euge. The friends and allies of the sovereign would be
nius to Chindasuindus, from which we learn that daubed with fulsome praise, his enemies over-
the prelate engaged in the task by the commands whelmed by a load of the foulest calumnies. We
of that prince ; and in p. 903 we find the Elegy cannot learn what the course of events really was,
addressed to Theodosius. The Eugenian version but merely under what aspect the ruling powers
was reprinted by Ririnus, Lips. 8vo. 1651, and in desired that those events should be viewed, and
the “ Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum,” Lugdun. vol. frequently the misrepresentations are so fingrant
ix. p. 724. More recent editions have appeared that we are unable to detect even a vestige of truth
by F. Areralus, Rom. 4to. 1791, and by J. B. lurking below. We derive from these effusions
Carpzovius, Helmst. 8vo. 1794.
some knowledge with regard to the personal history
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DREPANIUS.
DROMICHAETES.
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of particular individuals which is not to be obtained cc. 2 and 24 ; Auson. Prarf. Epigramm. , Lud.
elsewhere, and from the style we can draw some Sept. Sup. , Technopaegn. , Gramaticomast. , Idyl. vii. ;
conclusions with regard to the state of the language Symmach. Epist. viii. 12, ix. 58, 69. ) [W. R. ]
and the tone of literary taste at the commencement DRIMACUS (Apluakos), a fabulous leader of
of the fourth century; but, considered as a whole, revolted slaves in Chios. The Chians are said to
antiquity has bequeathed to us nothing more have been the first who purchased slaves, for
worthless.
which they were punished by the gods, for many
Latinus Pacatus DREPANIUS was a native of of the slaves thus obtained escaped to the moun-
Aquitania, as we lcarn from himself and from Si- tains of the island, and from thence made destruc-
donius, the friend of Ausonius, who inscribes to tive inroads into the possessions of their former
him several pieces in very complimentary dedica- masters. After a long and useless warfare, the
tions, and the correspondent of Symmachus, by Chians concluded a treaty with Drimacus, the
whom he is addressed in three epistles still extant. brave and successful leader of the slaves, who put
He was sent from his native province to congratu- an end to the ravages. Drimacus now received
late Theodosius on the victory achieved over among his band only those slaves who had run away
Maximus, and delivered the panegyric which through the bad treatment they had experienced.
stands last in the collection described above, at But afterwards the Chians offered a prize for his
Rome, in the presence of the emperor, probably in head. The noble slave-leader, on hearing this,
the autumn of A. 1). 391.
If we add to these par- said to one of his men, “ I am old and weary of
ticulars the facts, that he was elevated to the rank life; but you, whom I love above all men, are
of proconsul, enjoyed great celebrity as a poet, and young, and may yet be happy. Therefore take
was descended from a father who bore the same my head, carry it into the town and receive the
name with himself, the sources from which our in- prize for it. ” This was done accordingly; but,
formation is derived are exhausted.
after the death of Drimacus, the disturbances
The oration, while it partakes of the vices which among the slaves became worse than ever; and
disfigure the other members of the family to which the Chians then, seeing of what service he had
it belongs, is less extravagant in its hyperboles been to them, built him a heroum, which they
than many of its companions, and although the called the heroum of the ñpws eúuerns. The
language is a sort of hybrid progeny, formed by slaves sacrificed to him a portion of their booty;
the union of poetry and prose, there is a certain and whenever the slaves meditated any outrage,
splendour of diction, a flowing copiousness of ex- Drimacus appeared to their masters in a dream to
pression, and even a vigour of thought, which caution them. (Athen. vi. p. 265. ) [L. S. ]
remind us at times of the florid graces of the DRIMO (Apuw), the name of two mythical
Asiatic school. How far the merits of Drepanius personages. (Hygin. Fab. Praef. p. 2; Eustalli.
as a bard may have justified the decision of the ad Hom. p. 776. )
(L. S. )
critic who pronounces him second to Virgil only DROMEUS (Δρομεύς). l. Of Mantineia, a
(Auson. Praef. Epigramm. Idyll. vii. ), it is impos- victor in the Olympian games, who gained the
sible for us to determine, as not a fragment of his prize in the pancratium in Ol. 75. (Paus. vi. 6.
efforts in this department has been preserved. $ 2, 11. & 2. )
He must not be confounded with Florus Drepanius, 2. Of Stymphalus, twice won the prize at Olym-
a writer of hymns.
pia in the dolichos, but it is not known in what
The Editio Princeps of the Panegyrici Veteres years. He also gained two prizes at the Pythian,
is in quarto, in Roman characters, without place, three at the Isthmian, and five at the Nemean
date, or printer's name, but is believed to have games. He is said to have first introduced the
appeared at Milan about 1482, and includes, in custom of feeding the athletes with meat. There
addition to the twelve orations usually associated was a statue of his at Olympia, which was the
together, the life of Agricola by Tacitus, and frag-work of Pythagoras. (Paus. vi. 7. & 3; Plin. H.
ments of Petronius Arbiter, with a preface by N. xxxiv. 8, 19. )
(L. S. ]
Franc. Puteolanus, addressed to Jac. Antiquarius. DROMICHAETES (Apouixaltas). 1. A king
Another very ancient impression in 4to. , without of the Getae, contemporary with Lysimachus, king
place, date, or printer's name, containing the twelve of Thrace, and known to us only by his victory
orations alone, probably belongs to Venice, about over that monarch. He first defeated and took
1499. The most useful editions are those of prisoner Agathocles, the son of Lysimachus, but
Schwarzius, 4to. , Ven. 1728; of Jaegerus, which sent him back to his father without ransom, hoping
presents a new recension of the text, with a valu- thus to gain the favour of Lysimachus. The latter,
able commentary, and comprehends the poem of however, thereupon invaded the territories of Dro-
Corippus, 2 tom. 8vo. , Noremberg. 1779; and of michaetes in person, with a large army; but soon
Arntzenius, which excludes Drepanius, with very became involved in great difficulties, and was ulti-
copious notes and apparatus criticus, 2 tom. 4to. , mately taken prisoner with his whole force. Dro-
Traj. ad Rhen. 1790-97. The edition published michaetes treated his captive in the most generous
at Paris, 12mo. , 1613, with notes by many com- manner, and after entertaining him in regal style,
mentators, bears the title “XIV Panegyrici set him at liberty again on condition of Lysimachus
Veteres,” in consequence of the addition of Pane- giving him his daughter in marriage and restoring
Eyrics by Ausonius and Ennodius.
the conquests he had made from the Getae to the
In illustration we have T. G. Walch, Dissertatio north of the Danube. (Diod. E. rc. Peiresc. xxi.
de Panegyricis veterum, 4to. , Jenae, 1721; T. G. p. 559, ed. Wess. , Exc. Vatic. xxi. p. 49, ed. Dind. ;
Moerlin, de Panegyricis veterum programma, 4to. , Strab. vii. pp. 302, 305 ; Plut. Demetr. 39, 52;
Noremb. 1738; and Heyne, Censura XII Pare- Polyaen. vii. 25; Memnon, c. 5, ed. Orell. ) Pau-
gyricorum veterum, in his Opuscula Academica, vol. sanias, indeed, gives a different account of the
vi. p. 80.
transaction, according to which Lysimachus him-
(Sidon. Apollin. Epist. viii. 12; comp. Panegyr. I self escaped, but his son Agathocles having fallen
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into the power of the enemy, he was compelled to what to do. It was impiety to mourn the goddess,
purchase his liberation by concluding a treaty on and it was death not to mourn the woman. Seve-
the terms already mentioned. (Paus. i. 9. § 6. ) ral suffered death for entertaining a relative or
The dominions of Dromichaetes appear to have ex- guest, or saluting a friend, or taking a bath, in the
tended from the Danube to the Carpathians, and days that followed her funeral
. (Dion Cass. lix. ll;
his subjects are spoken of by Pausanias as both Senec. Consol. ad Polyb. 36. )
numerous and warlike. (Paus. I. c. ; Strab. vii. 3. JULIA DRUSILLA, the daughter of the
pp. 304, 305; Niebuhr, Kleine Schriften, p. 379; emperor Caius (Caligula) by his wife Caesonia.
Droysen, Nachfolg. Alex. p. 589. )
She was born, according to Suetonius (Caligula,
2. A leader of Thracian mercenaries (probably 25), on the day of her mother's marriage, or, ac-
of the tribe of the Getae) in the service of Antio- cording to Dio (lix. 29), thirty days afterwards.
chus II. (Polyaen. iv. 16. )
On the day of her birth, she was carried by her
3. One of the generals of Mithridates, probably father round the temples of all the goddesses, and
a Thracian by birth, who was sent by him with an placed upon the knee of Minerva, to whose patron-
army to the support of Archelaus in Greece. (Ap- age he commended her maintenance and educa-
pian. Mithr. 32, 41. )
(E. H. B. ] tion. Josephus (Ant. Jud. xix. 2) relates, that
DROMOCLEIDES (Apopokleions) of Sphetius, Caligula pronounced it to be a doubtful question
an Attic orator of the time of Demetrius Phalereus, whether he or Jupiter had the greater share in her
who exercised a great influence upon public affairs paternity. She gave early proof of her legiti-
at Athens by his servile fattery of Demetrius macy by the ferocity and cruelty of her disposition,
Poliorcetes. (Plut. Demetr. 13, 14, Praecept. Polit. for, while yet an infant, she would tear with her
p. 798. )
(L. S. ] little nails the eyes and faces of the children who
DROMOCRIDES, or, as some read, Dro- played with her. On the day that her father was
mocleides, is mentioned by Fulgentius (Mythol. i. assassinated, she was killed by being dashed
17) as the author of a Theogony, but is otherwise against a wall, A. D. 41, when she was about two
unknown. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. i. p. 30. ) [L. S. ] years old.
DROMON (Apouwv). 1. An Athenian comic 4. DRUSILLA, daughter of Herodes Agrippa I. ,
poet of the middle comedy, from whose Yártpia king of the Jews, by his wife Cypros, and sister
two fragments are quoted by Athenaeus (vi. p. of Herodes Agrippa II. , was only six years old
240, d.
