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 772 DEVANA. jiGatiaB herebj engcodend ooiristo in the disdne- tioD soggested by Ptdemj b e t wee u DemiaaDd Devn, it being assnined that the latter is the station cf the Twentieth L^ion; a oom]dicatu»wluch, though not rexy important, still leqaires mmvdling. PossiUj there were two stations on the Dee (Ad Detam). Poisiblj there was a change of station between the time of Ptolemj and the author of the Itineiaiy. The Boman remains at Chester are important, nnmeroas, and well described. (See Ormerod's Hie- tarff of Cheektre^ vol. L p. 295.) The Roman streeU maj be traced hj the existenoe of pavements under the present existing street, some feet below the sur- face of the soiL The walls, too, of Chester Mow their old Boman outline, and probably stand, for the greater part of their dicnit, (m Boman foundations. A postern on the bank of the Dte^ called the Ship- gate, consisting of a cixcular arch, is supposed to be Boman. Altars, coins, baths, with hjpocausts and figores, have also been found. The earliest inscrip- tion is one bearing the name of Commodns, not the emperor ao called, but ** CejcMuus Commodus qui et Aelius Verus appellatus est" (Spartian, HcuHan), who was adopted by Hadrian. One of the sta- tues, supposed to represent either Atys or ACthras, bears a Phxygian bonnet on the head, a short vest 00 the body, and a declining torch in the hand. Others are given to Minerva, to Aesculapius, and to other more truly Boman deities. Sepulchral vases, too, have been found. 2. A river in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy as being the third from the promontory of the Novantae ( Wigton)j in a southern direction, — the Abravan- nus and Uie Tena aestuary being the first and seoMid. The Dee in Gattotoay. [R. 6. L.] DEVANA (Atiovaya), in North Britain, men. tioned by Ptolemy (ii. 3. § 19) as the chief town of the Tezali (Ta^eali), a people of AberdeeneMre, situated on the Aberdeenshire Dee, (See Dbya= Chester.) [R 0. L.] DEVELTUS, DEVELTON, DIBALTUM, DE- BE LLION (Affo^fArof), a town in the east of Thrace, to the west of Apollonia (Ptol. iiL 11. § 11 ; Hiercl. p. 635 ; Theophan. p. 422 ; Plin. iv. 18 ; Amm. Marc xzzL 8, who caUs it Dd^eicum ; Geogr. Bav. iv. 6). According to Zonaras (iL p. 155), the place afterwards reoeiv^ the name Zagorat which it still bears, [L. S.] DIA (Afa), a small island which lies 40 stadia (5^ p. 70) places it 60 stadia east of the mouth of the Hypios, which river is between the Sangarius and Heradea. The name in Marcian, Alas w6ts, may be a mistake for Diospolis, which Ptolemy has (v. 1). It seems probable that the Dia of Stephanus and this Diospolis are the same. There are some very rare coins with the qngraph Aios, which Sestini assigns to this place. [G.L.] DIA. [BosPoRDB, p. 422, a.] DIABE'TAE (Aia^cu: Eth, Aiofarcubi). Stephanus B. («. 9.) speaks of the Diabetae as islands about Syme, which is an island off the Carian coast Pliny also names the Diabetae (v. 31). There are two or three small islands called Siskle off the south part of Syme; and there are also other small islands near it. [G. L.] DIANION. DIABLINTES. Caesar (A G. iii. 9) mentions the Diablintes among the allies cf the Veneti and other Armoric states whom Caesar attacked. The Diablintes are mentioned between the Morini and Menapii, from which, if we did not know their true position, we might be led to a fabecoodnaon. The true form of the name in Caesar is doubtfaL Schndder, in his edition ci the Gallic War, has adopted the form Diablintres, and there is good MSS. authority for iL The Diablintes are the Diablindi, whom Pliny (iv. 18) places in Gallia Lugdunoisis; and probably the Aulerd I^nlitae of Ptolemy (ii. 8). We may infer thdr position in some degree from Plinjr's enumeratian, ^ Cariosvdites [Cubiosoutab], Diablindi, Bhedflnes.** The capi- Ul of the Diablintes, according to Ptolemy, vis Noeodunum, probably the Nudinm of the Table. The Notitia of the Gallic provinces, which belongs to the commoicement of tihe fifth century, mentioos Civitas Diablintnm auMOg the dties of L^gdunensis Tertia. A document of the seventh century speaks of '*oandlU Diablintica" as situated ** in Pago Ce- nomannico" (Le Ifions), and thus we obtain tbe position of the Diablintes, and an explanation of the fret of the name Anieid being given in Ptolemy both to the Diablintes and Cenomanni [AuLssa; Cbnomanhi]. Another document <^ the sevenih century speaks of ** oppidum Diablintes juxta ripam Araenae fiuvidi;" and the Arena is recognised as the AroUj a branch of the Mayeime. A small place called Jvblems, where Boman remains have been found, not far from the town of Jfa y e ww e to the S.E., is probably the site of the " Civitas Diablin- tnm" and Noeodunum [Nobodukum]. The terri- tory of the Diablintes seems to have been small, and it may have been induded in that of the Cenomanni, or the diocese of Mans, (D'AnviUe, Notice^ &c; Walckenaer, Geog,^ &c. vd. i p. 387.) [G. L.] DIACOPE'NE {AuveowTitHi), a district in Pon- tus. Strabo (p. 561), after speaking of the plain Chiliocomon [Amasia], says, " there is the Diaoo- pene, and the Pimolisene, a country fertile all the way to the Halys; these are the northern parts o£ the country of the Amaseis." [G. L.1 DIA'CRIA. [AxncA.] DIAGON (AtdYw), a river separating Arcadia and Ells, and foiling into the Alphdus on its left bank, nearly opposite the mouth of the Exymanthos. (Paus. vL 21. § 4.) It is conjectured by Leake to be the same as the Dalion (Aa^{«r) of Strabo (viii. p. 344), who mentions it along with the Acheron. (Leake, Morea, vd. ii. p. 89.) DIA'NA, an island off the coast of Spun, men- tioned in the Maritime Itinerary (^Itin,AnL p. 510), where, however, the text is confused. If the name be genuine, it may be identified with the eooaall island off the Pr. Dianium, which Strabo mentiona, but without naming it (Strab. iii. p. 159.) [P. S.] DIA'NA VETEBANO'BUM, a town of Numidia, on the high road from Theveste to Sitifi, by Lambese, 33 M. P. from the latter place, is idientified with Izana or Zanah by inscriptions on a triumphal arch in honour of Severus at that place, (/tfik Jnt pp. 34, 35; Tab, PeuL; Sbaw, Travels, &c p. 136). [P.S.] DIA'NION (Geog. Bav.), a place in Dalmatia, which is set down in the Peutinger Table as *' ad Dianam," where a temple of Diana once stood, suc- ceeded in later times by the Churdi of St George. It is now the promontory of MargUany just bdow the mountain (^ the same name. (Wilkinson, Dal- rnaHa and JfoiUeaegro, vol i. p. 143.) [E.B. J.]