Page:Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Volume I Part 2.djvu/35

 776 DIKIA. nage of monxitalos maj extend from tlie Mcrod Dagk east to the neighlxKirhood of PessiDiis. Stnbo coald hard! J be ignonuit that there is a ooDsiderahle distance between the tonrce of the Hermoa and the mountain that overhangs Pessinus. Hamilton de- scribes the DindTmonii in whidi is the source of the Hennas, as rising to a great hdght, and forming " the watershed between Sie Hermns and the Bh jn- dacns, extending from Mond Dagh to Ak Dagh near SimanL** He adds that these moontains ^ join the range of Demiiji, bong a part of the great cen- tral axis of Asia Minor, which maj be said to extend from SE. bj E. to NW. bj W., from the Taoros bj Sultan Dagh to Moont Ida, forming the great water- shed betweoi the rivers which fall into the Medi- terranean and the Archipelago^ and those which fall into the Sea of Marmora and the Bkck Sea." (i2e- seorcAef, &c. vol. i. p. 105.) As to the Dmdjmmn of Pessinus, see Pessxsus. [G. L.] DINIA (^Digne% a town in Gallia Narbonensis. Pliny (UL 4) says that the Avantid and Bodiontici were aidded by the emperor Galba to the list (f<ff- mnla) of the people of Narbonensis, and he menticMis Dinia as their capital, or he may mean the capital of the Bodiontici only, though he has ill exprnsed himself, if that is his meaning. The name of Dinia does not occur in the Itins. ; but as Digne^ now in the department of the BoMtet Alpet, became the chief place of a diocese, its identity with Dinia is easily made out In the Notitia of the provinces of Galba, "Givitas Diniensium'* occurs. Ptolemy (iL 10. § 19) makes Dinia {Aiyla) the chief place of the Sentii, which is either an error, or some change had been made between the time of Pliny and Ptolemy, and the Avantid and Bodiontid were included in the territory of the SentiL [G. L.] DINIAE, a place in Phiygia, through which the Boman consul Cn. Manlins marched in his Galatian expedition. (Liv. xxxviiL 15.) He came to the plain of Metropolis [Metbopoutakus Campus], and on the following day to Diniae. From Diniae he marched to Synnadaj but there is no indication of the length of the march from Diniae to Synnada. Hamilton observes that Strabo (p. 663), in a passage whore *' he describes the great line of communication between Ephesus and Mazaca, places Metropolis (clearly the same as that alluded to by Livy) be- tween Apamea and Chelidonii, probably the same place as the Diniae of the historian." {ResearcheSj &c. vol. ii. p. 179.) Hamilton oondndes that the plain of Siizhanli represents the Metropolitanus Campus ; ** both from the narrative of Livy and its being on the great line of traffic." This seems a very probable conclusion. He also thinks that Afiom Kara Hissar is the representative of Synnada; and if he is right in these condusions, the position of Diniae is fixed within certain limits, though the maps do not show any name that corresponds to it. It is generally aj^reed that the words iral XcAi8o- w'mv in Strabo (p. 663) are corrupt; but it is doubtful if Livy's Diniae is concealed under it. Cramer {Asia Minor y vol. ii. p. 30) and Grosknrd {TraniL Sirabo^ vol. iii. p. 63) have some remarks on this reading. Palmerins proposed ital 4iXofi7)(oi/, against which Cramer's objection is insufficient. [G. L.l DINOGETIA, DINIGUTTIA, DIRIGOTHIA ( AiyoTCTCia), a town on the Danube in Moesia, nearly opposite the point where theHierasus ^PrtUh) empties itself into the Danube. (PtoL iii. 1 0. §§ 2, 1 1 ; It. Ant 225; Notit Imp.) [L. S.] DIOCAESABEIA (AiOKOtodpfia: Eik. AioKoir DICMKWOIL tnp»&6t), 1. ApiaoeinCappadodai Aceoiding to Gr^orios of Naaanzns, it was a small place. It is mentioined by Ptolemy (v. 6); and by- Pliny (vL 3), who gives no infonnatiou about it. Ainsworth, on his road from Ak Send to Kara Hissar, came to a place called Kaisar Koi, and ha observes ** that by its name and positi<m it might be identified with Diocaesarea." {London Geog. Jovr- nai, voL x. p. 302.) Some geographers take N»- zianzns and Diocaesareia to be the same place. 2. A town of Cilida Trachea, mentianed by Pto- lemy (v. 8) and the ecdesiastical authorities. Leake {Asia Minor^ p. 117) supposes that it may have been between Clandtopolis (ifoul) and Seleuceia {SeUfhe). [G. L.] DIOCAESARELL [Skpfboris.] DIOCLEA (AoKXia, Ptol. iL 16. § 12 : Etk. . / Dodeatae, Plin. iii. 2^, a place in Dalmatia, where Cy Diocletian was bom, and from which he took his ' name. (Aurel.yictjE^/»(.54; comp.Eutrop.ix. 19.) It was really called Doclea, but the rising soldier changed the barbaric Docles into the Grecian Diodea, which, after his assumption of the purple, was La- tinised into Diodetianus. The surrounding district bore the same name. (Const Porph. ds Adm. Imp, c. XXXV.) The town continued to be a ]Jace of oon- siderable importance till the Turkish invasion. The ruins of it are found at the delta farmed by the union of the rivers ZeUa and Mora^ in Monte- negro. (Schafarik, Slao, AlLy<L iL pp. 239, 249, 272— 275.)Jhi^C«-^v*yta25L33 [E. B. J.] DIOCLEIA (AioicXc(a), as the name is said to be written in one MS. of Ptolemy, though the common reading is Docda; but in one at least of the old Latin editions of Ptolemy, it is DiocUa (v. 2). Diocleia is a town of Phiygia Magna, mentioned by Hierodes. There are no means of fixing its position except what Ptolemy offers. It has been conjectured that the place is represented by some ruins at the passage of the Pursek, between KfUah^fah and In-oghi ; but this is only a guess. [G. L.] DIOCLETL/lNaPOLIS {Auuc ru^o&woKa, Procop. Aed. iv. 3), a town in Thrace, which the Antonine Itinerary places between Edessa and Thea- salonica. Hierocles mentions another place of this name near Philippopolis. The site of neither of these has as yet been made out [E.B. J.] DIODO'RI INSULA (Au»8dSpovrJ7(ror),«n island situated in the narrow straits of the Bed Sea, which is stated by Arrian, in his Periplus of the Red Sea (pp. 2, 14, ap. Hudson), to be 60 stadiA in width at its mouth. The channel between it and the main- land was fordable. Its modem name is Perim^ The straits and island are thus described by Com- mander Moresby {Sailing Directions for the Red Sea, pp. 1, 2): " The straits of Bab-et-Mandeb are 14^ nules wide At the entrance, between Bdb-ei- Mandeb Cape and the opposite point or volcanic peak, called JUM Seajam, Near the former cape is Perim Island, which divides the two straits at the entrance, the larger bdng about 11 miles wide. Perim is a huge rocky island, about 4| miles long by 2 broad, rising 230 feet above the levd of the sea, and without fresh water or inhabitants. The narrowest part of the little strait is nearly one and a half mile wide." [G. W.] DIODO'RUM, a town in Gallia, placed by the An- tonine Itin. on the road from Rotomagus {Bouen) to Lutetia (Porit). It lies between Durocasses (Z)rcsn;) and Paris, 22 Gallic leagues from Dreux, and 15 from. Parir. The place was oo a stream, as we may