Deucetius, a Sicilian general. Diodorus, bk. 11.
Deudorix, one of the Cherusci, led in triumph by Germanicus.
Dexamĕne, one of the Nereides. Homer, Iliad, bk. 18.
Dexamĕnus, a man delivered by Hercules from the hands of his daughter’s suitors. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 5.——A king of Olenus in Achaia, whose two daughters married the sons of Actor. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 3.
Dexippus, a Spartan who assisted the people of Agrigentum, &c. Diodorus, bk. 13.
Dexithea, the wife of Minos. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 1.
Dexius, a Greek, father of Iphinous, killed by Glaucus in the Trojan war, &c. Homer, Iliad, bk. 7.
Dīa, a daughter of Deion, mother of Pirithous by Ixion.——An island in the Ægean sea, 17 miles from Delos. It is the same as Naxos. See:[Naxos]. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, li. 157.——Another on the coast of Crete, now Standia.——A city of Thrace,——of Eubœa,——Peloponnesus,——Lusitania,——Italy, near the Alps,——Scythia, near the Phasis,——Caria,——Bithynia,——and Thessaly.
Diactorĭdes, one of Agarista’s suitors. Herodotus, bk. 6, ch. 127.——The father of Eurydame the wife of Leutychides. Herodotus, bk. 6, ch. 71.
Diæus, of Megalopolis, a general of the Achæans, who killed himself when his affairs became desperate. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 16.