Diōres, a friend of Æneas, killed by Turnus. He had engaged in the games exhibited by Æneas on his father’s tomb in Sicily. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 297; bk. 12, li. 509.
Dioryctus, a place of Acarnania, where a canal was cut (δια ὀρυσσω), to make Leucadia an island. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 1.
Dioscorĭdes, a native of Cilicia, who was physician to Antony and Cleopatra, or lived, as some suppose, in the age of Nero. He was originally a soldier, but afterwards he applied himself to study, and wrote a book upon medicinal herbs, of which the best edition is that of Saracenus, folio, Frankfurt. 1598.——A man who wrote an account of the republic of Lacedæmon.——A nephew of Antigonus. Diodorus, bk. 19.——A Cyprian, blind of one eye, in the age of Ptolemy Philadelphus.——A disciple of Isocrates.——An astrologer sent ambassador by Julius Cæsar to Achillas, &c. Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 3, ch. 109.
Dioscorĭdis insula, an island situate at the south of the entrance of the Arabic gulf, and now called Socotra.
Dioscūri, or sons of Jupiter, a name given to Castor and Pollux. There were festivals in their honour, called Dioscuria, celebrated by the people of Corcyra, and chiefly by the Lacedæmonians. They were observed with much jovial festivity. The people made a free use of the gifts of Bacchus, and diverted themselves with sports, of which wrestling matches always made a part.
Dioscurias, a town of Colchis. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 28.
Diospăge, a town of Mesopotamia. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 26.
Diospŏlis, or Thebæ, a famous city of Egypt, formerly called Hecatompylos. See: [Thebæ].
Diotīme, a woman who gave lectures upon philosophy, which Socrates attended. Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium.
Diotīmus, an Athenian skilled in maritime affairs, &c. Polyænus, bk. 5.——A stoic, who flourished 85 B.C.