Domĭtius Domitiănus, a general of Diocletian in Egypt. He assumed the imperial purple at Alexandria, A.D. 288, and supported the dignity of emperor for about two years. He died a violent death.——Lucius. See: [Ænobarbus].——Cnæus Ænobarbus, a Roman consul, who conquered Bituitus the Gaul, and left 20,000 of the enemy on the field of battle, and took 3000 prisoners.——A grammarian in the reign of Adrian. He was remarkable for his virtues, and his melancholy disposition.——A Roman who revolted from Antony to Augustus. He was at the battle of Pharsalia, and forced Pompey to fight by the mere force of his ridicule.——The father of Nero, famous for his cruelties and debaucheries. Suetonius, Nero.——A tribune of the people, who conquered the Allobroges. Plutarch.——A consul during whose consulate peace was concluded with Alexander king of Epirus. Livy, bk. 8, ch. 17.——A consul under Caligula. He wrote some few things now lost.——A Latin poet, called also Marsus, in the age of Horace. He wrote epigrams, remarkable for little besides their indelicacy. Ovid, ex Ponto, bk. 4, poem 16, li. 5.——Afer, an orator, who was preceptor to Quintilian. He disgraced his talents by his adulation, and by practising the arts of an informer under Tiberius and his successors. He was made a consul by Nero, and died A.D. 59.
Ælius Donātus, a grammarian, who flourished A.D. 353.——A bishop of Numidia, a promoter of the Donatists, A.D. 311.——A bishop of Africa, banished from Carthage, A.D. 356.
Donilāus, a prince of Gallogræcia, who assisted Pompey with 300 horsemen against Julius Cæsar.
Donūca, a mountain of Thrace. Livy, bk. 40, ch. 57.
Dŏnȳsa, one of the Cyclades in the Ægean, where green marble is found. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 125.
Doracte, an island in the Persian gulf.
Dōres, the inhabitants of Doris. See: [Doris].
Dori and Dorica, a part of Achaia near Athens.
Dorĭcus, an epithet applied not only to Doris, but to all the Greeks in general. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 27.
Dorienses, a people of Crete,——of Cyrene.