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 780 DIVOXA. V centmj. It aftenrardi became the ctpital of Ans- tranAj or of the kingdom of ife<z, as it wu Boinetimes calkxL The Boman bnildings at MeU have diaappeaied; hat the arrondiswmeDt of J/ete contains many Roman remains. At or about SabUm, 1 mile S. of Metz^ were an amphitheatre, a nanmachia, and baths. This indeed appears to have been the site of the old Roman town. The amphitlieatre is said to have been as htrge as that of Nimes. The rains of these edifices furmshed a Urj^ part of the materials for the citadel and fortifications, which were added to the town in the 17th centniy. The aqnednct that supplied Mete with water, extended from the mills of the village of Gone on the west side of the Motette to MetZy a distance of more than 6 French leagues, it brought the water to the city across the river. There stiil remain of this great work 5 arches en the left bank of the Moeelle, and 1 7 in the village of Jouy on the right bank. The jnles or foundations in the river hare been destroyed by the water. The masonxy of the aqueduct is very good, and covered with a cement which is very well pre- aerved wherever the aqueduct exists. It is estimated that it supplied every minute a volume of water equal to 1050 cubic feet. The arch under which the road to Nancy passes at Joi^ is 64 feet high, or as high as one of our great viaducts. These arches supported two parallel canals. The two canals to- gether were 11^ feet wide. Such was one <^ the Roman works in a town, the history of which u unknown. {Guide du Voyageur, &c, par Richard et E. Hocquart.) [G. L] DrVONA, afterwards Caourci (CoAor*). In Ptolemy (ii. 7. § 11) the name is written Amrfy>va or Aotficof^o. In the Table the name is miswritten Bibona. In the Notitia of the Gallic provinces it appears under the name of Givitas Gadurcoram. The name Divona is in Ausonlns {Clarae Urbes Burdig. v. 31), who gives the etymology of the name as he understood it: — " Dirona Geltaram lingua, Pons addite Divis." He means to say that J)i or Div means ^ God,** and von or on, " water " or " fountain." It is said that it is the fountain at C<ihors called '* Des Ghartreux" which gave the place the name Divona. It was the capital of the Gadurci, and there are four roads in the Table and the Itin., from Vesunna (P^r^ueeu;), Aginnum (Agen), Tolosa {Taulouse)^ and Sego- dunum (^Rhodez), which meet at Divona, or Cahon^ in the department of Lot. De Valois affirms that there is in Cohort a place still called Lot Cadurcaty and it is further said that the ruins are those of a temple of Diana. The Roman aqueduct at Cohort was a great work. It was about 19 miles in length, and had a very winding course through valleys and along monntun sides. It crossed the valley of Lar^ roque-^kt-aret by a bridge of three tiers of arches, the elevation of which is estimated to have been nearly 180 feet. On the sides of two ranges of hills there are still some remains of this magnificent work, the dimensions of which must have equalled, or even surpassed, those of the Pont-du-Gard It is said that it continued in pretty good preservation to the end of the 14th century. The aqueduct is ge- nerally cut in the rock on the sides of the hills along which it is carried. The channel for the water was eonstructed of masonry lined with cement and co- vered with tiles, so that no water could filter through. It was a work worthy of the gnmdeur of the Romans. DOBUNL Pali of the wall of the baths remaios, and a partks of a doorway. Some beantifol mosaic work has been discoverad on the site of the baths. Thetheotxe was of a semicircular form. A ^iaax of this theatre and an elevation were poMished in VAwKtuire de Lot for 1840. The fountain Dee CkartrtmXj so called because it was in the indosnre of a c ouv cn i at this religious society, the ancient Divona, is an abundant source. A hige maihle altar has heen found at Cakore, with an inacriptian which reooids that it was set up by the Givitas Gadnrooniin, in honour of M. Lucterius Leo, the son of Lucterina Senecianus, who had discharged all the high offices in his native place, and was priest at the AraAognsti, at the confluence of the Arar and the Rhodamw One Lucterius, a Cadurcan, stirred up the revolt against Gaesar in b. c 52 {B, G, viL 5, ftc, viiL 44), and this man may have been one of the fiumly. At least he had the name, with aRoman praenomen. The authority for the remains of Divona is in the work entitled ** Goup d*odl sur ks m<muments his- toriques dn Lot, par M. le Baron Ghandrnc de Ci»- zannes.** from whose work there are large extracts in the *' Guide du Voyageur, par Richard et E. Hocquart" [G. L.] DOANAS (6 Aodnir, PtoL vii. 2. § 7), a river in India extra Gangem, which there is some reason to suppose is represented by the present Irmuaddg ot river of Ava. It discharged its waters into what Ptolemy calls the Sinus Magnus. It appears, fipom Be(ghaus*8 map, that the modern Salven bean the name of Djaoen near its embouchure, from which it might be inferred that this is the repnaentative of the andene Doanas. It seems, however, more likely that the Salven is the Dorias of Ptolemy (vii 2. §§ 7, 1 1). The two rivers flowed in parallel lines from N. to S., and it is clear that the ancients had no accurate account of them. The Doanas appears to have been about a degree to the W. of the Dorias; and the two streams must have really entered the sea in the Sinus Sabaracus or Gulf of Afartab€sn, Mannert and Reichard have both supposed that they were rivers fiS the Gheiwaesus Aurea. [V.] DOfiEllUS (A^^pos, Stcph. B.; A^ofwi, Ai^ 9opoft Ao^/Supos^f a Paeonian town or district, which Sitalces reached after crossing Gercine, and where many troops and additional volunteers reached lum, making up his full total. (Thnc. il 98, 100.) Hierodes names Diaboros next to Idomene among the towns of the Gonsuhtf Macedonia under the Byzantine empire; this, coupled with the statement of Ptolemy (iii. 13. 8. § 28) that it belonged to the Aestraei, would seem to show that Doberns was near the modern Doghirdn. The DoBBRES (A^pes, Doberi, Plin. iv. 10) are described by Herodotus (viL 1 Id) as inhabiting, with the Paeoplae, the country to the N. of Mt. Pangaeum, — these being precisely the tribes whom he luid before associated with the inhabitants of the Lake Prasias (v. 16). Their position must, there- fore, be sought to the E. of the Strymon : they shared Mt. Pangaeum with the Paeonians and Pierians, and dwelt probably on the N. side, where, in the time of the Roman empire, there was a ** mutatio," or pUoe for changing horses, on the Via Egnatia, called Do- MEROS, between Amphipolis and Philippi, 13 M. P. from the former and 19 M. P. from the latter. (/<«n. Hierosol; comp. Tafel, de Via EgnaL p. 10.) (Leake, Northern Greece, voL iiL pp. 212, 444, 467.) [E.B.J.] pOBU'NI (Ao^ovvoOi a people in Britain, men*