Dryŏpe, a woman of Lemnos, whose shape Venus assumed, to persuade all the females of the island to murder the men. Flaccus, bk. 2, li. 174.——A virgin of Œchalia, whom Andræmon married after she had been ravished by Apollo. She became mother of Amphisus, who, when scarce a year old, was with his mother changed into a lotus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 10, li. 331.——A nymph, mother of Tarquitus by Faunus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 551.——A nymph of Arcadia, mother of Pan by Mercury, according to Homer, Hymn 19 to Pan.
Dryŏpeia, an anniversary day observed at Asine in Argolis, in honour of Dryops the son of Apollo.
[♦]Dryŏpes, a people of Greece, near mount Œta. They afterwards passed into the Peloponnesus, where they inhabited the towns of Asine and Hermione, in Argolis. When they were driven from Asine by the people of Argos, they settled among the Messenians, and called a town by the name of their ancient habitation Asine. Some of their descendants went to make a settlement in Asia Minor, together with the Ionians. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 146; bk. 8, ch. 32.—Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 34.—Strabo, bks. 7, 8, 13.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 1.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 4, li. 146.—Lucan, bk. 3, li. 179.
[♦] ‘Drpŏpes’ replaced with ‘Dryŏpes’
Dryŏpis and Dryŏpĭda, a small country at the foot of mount Œta in Thessaly. Its true situation is not well ascertained. According to Pliny, it bordered on Epirus. It was for some time in the possession of the Hellenes, after they were driven from Histiæotis by the Cadmeans. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 56.
Dryops, a son of Priam.——A son of Apollo. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 34.——A friend of Æneas, killed by Clausus in Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 346.
Drypĕtis, the younger daughter of Darius, given in marriage to Hephæstion by Alexander. Diodorus, bk. 18.
Dubis, or Alduadubis, the Daux, a river of Gaul, falling into the Saone.
Dubris, a town of Britain, supposed to be Dover.
Ducetius, a Sicilian general, who died B.C. 440.