Dōrus, a son of Hellen and Orseis, or, according to others, of Deucalion, who left Phthiotis, where his father reigned, and went to make a settlement with some of his companions near mount Ossa. The country was called Doris, and the inhabitants Dorians. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 56, &c.——A city of Phœnicia, whose inhabitants are called Dorienses. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 24.
Doryasus, a Spartan, father to Agesilaus.
Dŏrȳclus, an illegitimate son of Priam, killed by Ajax in the Trojan war. Homer, Iliad, bk. 11.——A brother of Phineus king of Thrace, who married Beroe. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 620.
Dŏrȳlæum and Dorylæus, a city of Phrygia, now Eski Shehr. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 29.—Cicero, Flaccus, ch. 17.
Dory̆las, one of the centaurs killed by Theseus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 180.
Dory̆lāus, a warlike person intimate with Mithridates Evergetes, and general of the Gnossians, B.C. 125. Strabo, bk. 10.
Doryssus, a king of Lacedæmon, killed in a tumult. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 2.
Dosci, a people near the Euxine.
Dosiadas, a poet who wrote a piece of poetry in the form of an altar (βωμος), which Theocritus has imitated.
Dosiades, a Greek, who wrote a history of Crete. Diodorus, bk. 5.