A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Dyras, a river of Trachinia. It rises at the foot of mount Œta, and falls into the bay of Malia. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 198.

Dyraspes, a river of Scythia. Ovid, ex Ponto, bk. 4, poem 10, li. 54.

Dyris, the name of mount Atlas among the inhabitants of that neighbourhood.

Dyrrhăchium, now Durazzo, a large city of Macedonia, bordering on the Adriatic sea, founded by a colony from Corcyra, B.C. 623. It was anciently called Epidammus, which the Romans, considering it of ominous meaning, changed [♦]into Dyrrhachium. Cicero met with a [♥]favourable reception there during his exile. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 3.—Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 10.—Plutarch.—Cicero, bk. 3, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 22.

[♦] ‘intlo’ replaced with ‘into’

[♥] ‘favourabe’ replaced with ‘favourable’

Dysaules, a brother of Celeus, who instituted the mysteries of Ceres at Celeæ. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 14.

Dyscinētus, an Athenian archon. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 27.

Dysōrum, a mountain of Thrace. Herodotus, bk. 5, ch. 22.

Dyspontii, a people of Elis. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 22.