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 DUlfNISSUS. bj PtdanXt M lying north of the Promontory Orcas and south of the Orcades. [Orcades.] [R.6.L.] DUMNISSUS, a place in Gallia, on the road from Bingiam (^Bmgm) te Augusta TrcTiroram (rrter). The Table gives 16 Gallic leagues from Bingimn to Dumnissoay and 8 from Damnissos to Belginnm. Aoaonias, in his poem on the Mosella (▼. 1, &c.), mentions Dumniasas. After crossing the Nava (iVioile), which joins the Bhine at i^tin^eii, be speaks of passing through forests without tracks, where there was no sign of human cultiTation ; and he adds,— '* Praetereo arentem ntientibns nndique tenis Dnmnissum, rigusaque perenni foote Tabemas." The route of Ansonius from Bingen was throi^h the Smtdtruckf but the site of Dnmnissus is unkno?rn. It is placed bj boom geographers at Denzen, near KirnMerg, Belginnm is supposed to be Belch^ which in &ct is the same name. [G. L.] DUNIUM, in Britain, mentioned bj Ptolemy (ii. 3. § 29) as a town of the Durottiges. [R. G. L.] DUNUM. 1. In Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy (iL a. § 10)as a town of that island. 2. D. SiHUB (AovMii' k6Kkq% a bay in Britain, mentioDed by Ptolemy (ii 3. § 6). Name for name, and place for phlce, /)im-s-ley Bay, near Whitby, in Yorkshire. [B. G. L.] DUODECIMUM, AD. 1. Tacitus (^imi. iiL 45), in his account of the revolt of Sacrovir, eays that the Roman commander Silius marched upon Augusto- dunum after ravaging the lands of the Sequani, and he met Sacrovir " ad Duodecimum lapidem," which seems to mean 12 M. P. from AuUm^ in an open country. Perhaps Tacitus dues not mean to speak of Ad Duodecimum as a place. D*Anville con- cludes that the march of Silius was from Cabillonum {fihaUon) on the Sooim, which is likely enough. Cabillonum was on a road from Lugdunum to Augus- todunum, and the Autonine Itin. places Cabillonum 33 M. P. from Angustodnnum. The site of Sacro- ▼ir*s defeat cannot be very fax from the spot where the Roman proconsul C. Julius Caesar defeated the Uelvetii, B, a 58. 2. DuoDBCiMirH, Azx [Decem Paoi.] 3. The Table places a Duodecamnm 18 from Noviomagns (Ajrmepeii), on the road to Leyden. D'Anville supposes that the 18 is an error, and should be 12, and that the 12 are 12 M. P. Some take the 18 to be M. P., and so the distance would be 12 Gallic leagues. D'Anville merely led by a name, and probably deceived by it, fixes on Doodemoerd^ on the right bank of the Waal, as the place. [G.L.] DURA. 1. (rk Awptif Polyb. v. 5lAmm. Marc zz. 5, 6), a fortified castle in Assyria, on the left bank of the Tigris. It still bears the name of Dur or Vmxi. (Lynch, 12. 0, L vol ix. p* 447 ; Layard, Ninevth and Babglon^ p. 469.) 2. (Aovpa, Isid. Char. p. 4 ; Zosun. iiL 14; Amm. Ilaro. xziiL 5), a place in the N. of Mesopotamia, at no great ^stance from Ciroesinm and the Eu- phrates, at which, according to ZosimuSi the military monnment to Gordlan was elected. Ammianus diffisrs from him in this, stating that Gordian's tomb was at Zaitha, a few miles distant. Eutropins and Rufos Pectus state that the monument was 20 M. P. firam Ciroesium. Zosimns is therefore, in all pro- bability, correct. ludorus states that Duia was built by the M«i^oi^nnUn«^ and was called Eukopus as well as Dura Nicanoris. It may be doubted whether the passage in Polyhias (v. 48} docs not DURIA. ^91 refer to the Assyrian town of this name. The Eame remark applies to the reference in Stephanas, who simply refers to the 5th book of Polybius, in which both places are mentioned. [V.] pURA'NIUS iDordogne), a krge river of Gallia, which joins the Ganunna (Garontui), on*the right bank below Bordeaux, Ansonius {MoieUa, ▼. 464) says of the Dnranius, — " Concedes gelido Durani de monte volntus Amnis.** The Ihrdogne rises in Mont Dor^ which seems to have given the river its name. Mont Dor is in the department of Pug de Dome, and its summit is said to be the highest- point of the mountains of central France. The name Duranins appears in the middle ages in various forms; and Dordonia, one of them, is the origin of the name Dordogne, [G. L.] DURDUS (rh Aovpioy 6pos named by Ptolemy as one of the chief mountain ranges of Mauretania Tingitana, appears to be that part of the main chain of AtUs from which the river Malva takes its rise. Its name evidently contains the same root as Dyrin, the native name of the Atlas. [P. S.] DUREa IE. The Table pUces Duretie 29 Gallic leagues from Portu Namnetum (JVontef), on the road to Geeocribate (Brest). The next station after Duretie is Dartoritum, which Ptolemy calls Dariori- gum. [Dariorigum.] The distances in the Table eannot be trusted; and if they can, we must be sure about the direction of the Roman road between Nantes and Vannes before we can determine the poeition of Duretie. Some geographers place it at Roche Bernard, near the heiui rf the aestnary of the VHaine, D'Anville proposes to alter Duretie to Dorerie, and he thinks that the second part of the word contains the word Herios, the name which Ptolemy gives to the Vilaine. The first part of the word Duretie is probably the common Celtic name Dur, [G. L.] DU'RIA (Aovpfof, Strab.: Dora), the name of two rivers of Cisalpine Gaul, both of them rising in the Alps, and flowing into the Padus. (Piin. iii. 1 6. s. 20.) They are commonly called by writers on ancient geography the Duria Major and Duria Minor, but we have no ancient authority for these appel- lations. Pliny calls them simply **I>urias duas;" and Strabo mentions only one river of the name. This is evidently nothing more than the Celtic Dvr or DWf water; which sufficiently accounts for its double employment. The two streams are now known as the Dora BaUea and Dora Riparia : the former name is apparently of very early origin, as the geographer of Ravenna in the ninth century calls it '' Duria Bantica." (Geogr, Ra». iv. 36.) 1. The Dora BaUea, which is much the larger of the two streams, has its sources in the Pennino and Graian Alps (^Great and Little St. Bernard)^ and flows through the great valley of the Salassi (^Val d'Aogta)^ receiving on its course numerous tributaries from the gbcien of the Pennine Alps, so that it is one of the most important of the feedere or tributaries of the Padus. It flowed under the walls of Augusta Praetoria (Aosta) and Eporedia (/trrea), and joined the Padus about 22 miles from the latter city, and the same distance below Augusta Tauri- nomm. Strabo, who correctly describes this river as flowing through the country of the Salassians, and turned to much account by that people for their gold- washings [Salassi], has evidently oonfbnnded it with the other river of the same name, where he 3b4