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 DOSARON. place in its imnMdiate neighbourhood." (Leake.) Dorylaeom is in an extensive plain. The remaina of antiqnity do not appear to be of any note. The origin of Dorylaeum is not known. The name occurs in the wars of Lysimachns and Anti- gonns (Diod. zx. 108), whence we majr condnde that the place is older than the time of Alexander. Lysimachus made an entrenched camp at Doiylaenm, '* which place had abundance of com and other sup- plies, and a river flowmg by it" The Dorylenses were among those who joined in the prosecution against L. Flaocos, who was praetor of the province of Asia (B.C. 62), and who was accused of makul- ministration. Cicero^ who defended him, calls these Dorylenses *' pasfeoros " (^pro Flaoc. c. 1 7 ), irom which we may collect that thiere was sheep feeding about Borylaeum then as thera is now. The roads from Dorybeumand its position show that it must always have been an important town during the Boman oc- cupation of Asia ; and it was a flourishing place under the Greek empire. [G. L.] DaSABOK (AflMrdpwv), a river of India which discharges itself into the Sinus Gangeticus at 141^ kmg., and 17^ 4! lat (PtoL vi. ]);. and has been identified with the Maka-Nadi. (Comp. Gosselin, GiograpkU des Anciens^ vol. ilL pp. 21 5, 216, 255^ 812.) [E. B. J.] DOTHAN (Ao0at{/u), a town of Palestine, men- tioned in the histoiy of Joseph ((?en. xzxvii. 17) and of Rlisha (2 Kmgtj vi. 13). From the former notice it appears to have been on the high road be- tween Gilead and Kgypt It is mentioned in the book of Judith in connection with Bethulia, over against Esdraelon, toward the open country (iv. 6) ; and it is clear, from vii. 4, that it must have been in the mountains bordering the plain of Esdraelon on the south. Consistently with this, Eusebius places it 12 miles to the north of Samaria (^Sdnute) (^OnomasL s. v.), where a village of the name Ihidn still exists, a little to the east of the Ndblua road, south-west of Jenm, (Schultz, in Williams, Hol^ Cii9, vol. ii. p. 469.) [G. W.] DCXTIUM, town. [Domus Cakfits.J DaTIUS CAMPUS {rh £>Jrrtov ic^iov), the name of a plain in Pelasgiotis in Thessaly, situated south of Oissa, along the western side ii the lake Boebeis. It is mentioned as the earliest seat of the Aenianes. (Strab. i. p. 61, ix. p. 442 ; Pint. Quaeit. Oraec 18.) Hesiod speaks of '* twin hiUs in the Dotian plain opposite to the vine-bearing Amyrus," said to have been the dwelling-place of Coronis, mother of Aesculapius by ApoUo, who put her to death because she had &voured Ischys, son of Eilatus. (Hesiod, tqt. Strab, ix. p. 442, xlv. p. 647 ; oomp. Horn. Hynm. xv.; Callim. Hymn, tn Cer, 25.) Leake identifies this doable hill of Hesiod with a very remarkable height, rising like an island out of a plain, about four miles in circumference, and having two summits connected by a ridge : between them b a village called Petra^ from which the kill derives its name. The north-eastern summit of the hill b surrounded by foundations of Hellenic walls of remote antiquity. We learn from Pindar that the toini on thb hill was called Lacbrbia (Ao- jc^pcio, Pind. Pylh. iii. 59), to which, however, other writers give the name of Dotium (StepL B. «. V. AAtiop ; Plin. iv. 9. s. 16). (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. pp. 420, 447, 45 1.) DOURUS, in Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy as &lling into the Western Ocean between'the Senus (JSheamon) and the lemus {Kemnare). Thb makes DBANGUNA. 787 it, in all probability, the river which fiilb into Dmgle Bay. [R G. L.] DRABESCUS (Apo^^o-icof^Strab. vii. p. 331 ; ys,^ Steph. B.), a place where the Athenian colonbts of Amphipolis were defeated by the Thracian Edoni. In the Peutinger Table (Damvescus) it is marked 12 M. P. to the NW. of Philippi, a situation which corresponds with the plain of Dhr&ma. The plain of Drabescus b concealed from Amphipolis by the meeting of the lower heights of Pangaeum with those which enclose the plain to the NE. Through this strait the ^Anghiata makes its way to the lake; and thus there b a marked separation between«the Stry- monic plain and that which contains Drabescus and Philippi. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 183.) rB.B.J.] DBACO (jtkpijKtov), a small river which enters the southern side of the bay of Astacus, in the Pro- pontis. It runs from the high land north of the bke Ascania, near Nicaea, and enters the sea at the promontoiy of DU^ and near Helenopolb (^EntiK). The Draco b a rapid river, with a winding course, which by its alluvium has formed the DU. (Procop. de Aedif. v. 2.) Leake observes (Atia Minor, p. 10):—'' In riding from the Dil to Ktederweut (on the road to Nicaea, Iznik), I remarked that we traversed the river about twenty times, without being aware that Procopius has maide precisely the same remark with regard to the Draco.'' [G. L.] DRACO MONS. [Tmolus.] DRAHCNUS, a small river, now the Drone or TVotm, which flows into the Mosella (^Moaef) at Neumagen, the ancient Neomagus. Neinmagen b in the circle of Trier, The Drahonus b mentioned by Ausonius : — {Id. X. MoseUa, v. 365.) [G. L.] DRANGIA'NA (Aparywnf, Strab. xi. p. 516, xv. p. 723; Ptd. vi. 19. § 1; Affdyrn, Strab. xi. p. 514; Apayytni, Diod. xvii. 81, xviii. 3; Drangbna, Amm. Marc. xxiiL 6), a dbtrict at the eastern end of the modem kingdom of Persia, and comprehending part of the present Sejeitan or Seietan, It was bounded on the N. by Aria, on the E. by Arachosb, on the S. by Gedrosia, and on the W. by Carmania. Its inhabitants were called Drakoae (^Apdyyeu, Arrian, Anab. iii. 28 ; Strab. xv. pp. 721, 723, 724; Plin. vi. 23. s. 25), or Zaranoab (Plin. I. c; Za- payyoiy Arrian, vi. 17 ; Zapceyycuotf Arrian, iii. 25; abo called Xoftdyycu, Herod, iii. 93, 117, vii. 67; AopdU'Scu, Ptol. vi. 9. § 3). The name b derived by M. Bumouf (^Comment sur le Jagna, p. xcviii.) from Zarayo, a Zend word meaning sea, and might therefore signify those who dwelt on or near the sea or lake now Zarah, which undoubtedly retains its Zend name. (Comp. Wibon, Ariana, p. 152, 153.) Herodotus describes the Sarangae in the army of Xerxes as conspicuous for the dress they wore, dyed garments, boots which reached half up their legs, and bows and Median darts. Drangbna was conquered by Alexander (Arrian iii. 28; Diod. xvii. 78), and united with the adja- cent provinces under one satrap. At first Menon b mentioned as satrap of Arachosia (and therefore probably of Drangiana, as the two provinces were conquered in succession, Arrian, iii. 28); then, on the dbtribntion of Alexander's empire among hb generab, it fell to the lot of Stasanor of Solus, to- gether with Aria. (Diod. xviii. 8; Justin, xiii. 4.) Lastly, it was given by Antipater to Stasander of Cyprus^ with .£ia, Stasanor having been removed
 * ' Praetereo exilem Lesuram tenuemque Drahonum."