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 DERIS. DERIS or DERRHIS (A^pts, Stnb. zvii. p. 799 ; A^jkf, PtoL iv. 5. § 7 ; A4f^v or A4ffa, Stadiasm. p. 436), a promontory on the coast of Marmarica in N. Africa, between the harboon of LencaspiB and Phoenicns, named fmn a black rock in the ^pe of a hide. Pacho takes it for the headland now called El Hesf. (Voyage dam la Marmarique, &c p. 18 ^ rp S.1 DERRHIS (A/f)^is, Ptol. iii. 18. § 12; Strab. Til. p. 330; Steph. B. t.v, Topdni; MeUi, ii. 3. § 1 : C. Dkripano)j the promontory of Sithonia that doses thegulfofTonmatoSE. (JaiAr^ Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 119.) [E.B.J.] DEllRHIUM (A^^^mtX a place in Laoonia on Mt Taygetns, contaming a atetne of Artomis Der- rhiatis in the open air, and near it a fountain called Anonns. (Pans. iii. 20. § 7.) The stta «f the place is uncertain. Stephanos B. calls it Dbra («. «l A/^), and gives as Ethnic names Atpaios and Atped n ^s. DEKTO'VA(A4f>0ay, Strab. v. p. 217; Atfnim^ Ptol. iii. 1. § 35: TorUma), an important city of Ligoria, situated in the intoior of that prorince, at the nortiiem foot of the Apennines, and on the high road leading from Genua to Placentia. The Itine- raries place it 51 miles from the Utter city, and 71 from Genua, but this last distance is greatly over- stated, (/fm. AtU. pp. 288, 294.) Strabo speaks of it as one of the most considerable towns in this part of Italy, and we learn frxym Plinj that it was a Roman colony. VeQeius mentions it among those founded under the republic, though its date was un- certain; but it appears to have been reodonised under Augustus, train, whence we find it bearing in inscriptions the titie of '* Julia Dertona." (Veil. Pat, i. 15; Plin. iii. 5, s. 7; Orell. Inecr. 74.) Decimus Brutus encamped here on his march in pursuit of Antonius, after the battle of Mutina (Gic. ad Fam, zL 10), and it was one of the places where a body of troops was usually stationed during the later ages of the empire. (Not Dign. ii. p. 121.) Ptolemy erroneously places Dertona among the Tau- rini; its true position is clearly marked by Strabo and the Itineraries, as well as by the modem town of Tortona, which retains the ancient name. Many andent tombs were extant here in the time of Clu- Terins,and a remarkable sarcophagus isstill preserved in the cathedral. (Gluver. Ital, p. 81 ; Hillin, Voy, en Piemotti, vol. ii. p. 281.) [£. H. B.] DERTCXSA (Atfnwoa or Acprwcrcra, Stfab. iii pp. 159, 160; Ptol. ii. 4. § 64; Colonia Julia Au- gusta Dertosa, coins: Eth. Dertosani, Plin. iii 3. s. 4 : Tortosa), a dty of the Dercaones in Hispania Tarroconensis, on*the left bank of the Iberus (Ebro), not far above the delta of the river, which was here crossed by the high road from Tarraco to Carthago Nova. (/<ifi. Ant. p. 399; Mela, iL 6; Suet. Ga!b, 10.) Though only mentioned by Pliny as one of the dties civium Romttnorumj it b proved to have been a colony by the assertion of Strabo and the epi- graphs of its corns, all of which belong to the early empire, and bear the heads of Julius Caesar, Au- gustus, and Tiberius. ^Florez, Med. de Etp. vol. t p. 376; Kionnet, vol. i. pp. 40, 44, Suppl. i. p. 81 ; Sestini, p. 138; Eckhd, vd. i. p. 47.) [P. S.] DEBUSUCI. [Persib.] DERVEln'IO, in Britain, mentioned in the fixBt Itinerary as being seven miles from York, in the direction of Delgovitia {Mm'het WeighUm), Some place it on the Z>en0ent [R. G. L.] DESSOBRI'GA, a town of the Mubbooi, or Turmodigi, in Hispania TanaconensiB, 15 M. P. W. DEVA. 771 of Segiiiamo, on the high road from AstoHca to Caesaraugusta. (Jtm. AnL p. 449.) [P. S.] DESUDABA, a place in Maedica of Macedonia, 75 M. P. from Almana, on the Azius, where the mer- cenaries of the Gauls who had been summoned by Perseus in the memorable campaign of B.C. 168, took up their podtion. (Liv. xliv. 26.) Leake {Northern Greece, vol iii. p. 472) has placed it at or near KumAnovo, on one of the confluents of the Upper Azius. [E. B. J.] DESUVIATES, a people of Gallui Narbonensis, known only from a few words of Pliny (iii. 4), who says, ^ regio Anatiliorum, et intus Desuviatium Cavammque." The Anatilii are supposed to have been at the mouth of the Rhone, and probably they occupied part at least of the isle of Camargue. The position of the Cavarcs, north of the Durance [Cavareb], is known; and there renuuns no pUce for the Desnviates ezcept the small district south of the Durance, between the Durance and the Rhone. If this is so, the Desnviates were surrounded on the easft and south by the Saljes. [G. L.] DBTTUMO. [Decuma]. DETUKDA. [Decuma]. DEUCALSDONICVS OCEANUS (AoimiraAe. Mriof 'ClKtaif&f^ the name given by Ptolemy to the ocean on the north «C the Britannic Islands. " The table " of the British Ides " is bounded on the north by that " ocean *' which is called Hyperborean or Deucaledonian '^ (viii. 3. {2)u The word occurs again in Marcianus Heracleota, whose tezt, for these parts at least, is but an abric|gipent of Ptolemy's. In another part of his work, this htter calls it " Deucaledonian or Sarmatic." [Dicaledonajb; Picm.] [B. G. L.] DEURIOPUS (Acvp(oTo$, Strab. v. pp^ 326, 327 ; Aovpfovor, Steph. B.), a subdivison of Paecmia in Maoedonta, the limits of which amnot be ascertained, but which, with Pdagonia and Lyncestis, compre- hends the country watered by the Erigon and its branches. Bryanium, and Stymbara, an important place on the frontier of r^al Macedonia, belonged to Deuriopus. (Liv. zzziz. 54; Leake, NortMm Greece, vd. iii. p. 306.) [E. B. J.] DEVA (Ano6a, Ptol. iL 6. § 8), or DEVAXES (Mela, iii. 1), a small river on the N. coast of His- pania Tarraconensis, probably identical with the Biream now called Deva, near S, Sebaetian. (Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 800.) [P. S.] DEVA. 1. Thenameofthe river Dee, in Cheshire. Just, however, as Dbkventio, though really the name of the Derweni, denotes a town on that river rather than the river itself, Deva means a town on the Deva rather than Deva {Dee) th« river. The exact figure of speech by which this change is brought about u fUKertain. Perhaps the fuller form may have been Ad Devam or Ad Derventionem. No- thing, however, is more eertain than that the name in both the eases before us (as well as in eertain others) is originally and primarily the name of the river rather than the atation. Another form is Deuna, given by Ptolemy as a dty of the Comabii, Viro< oonium and the station of the Twentieth Legion (or the Vict<sions) bdng the other two. As the Cor* nabii lay between the Ordovlces of North Walee and the Coritani of Leicester and Lineokuhire, these correspond more or less with the present counties of Derby, Stafford, and Cheshire, in the second Itine~ rary we find the station Deva Leug. zz. victriz, in which (as far at least as the name of the station goes) we probably have the bettor reading. The com* Sd 2