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DIMIDIATION. 256 DINGLINGER. In 1833 he resigned his university post, and from that time was for many years an important con- tributor to the republication of Stephanus's The- He saurus Lingua Graca (Paris, 1832-65). edited all of the Greek dramatic poets separately, and prepared a collective arrangement in his Pocta Scenici Græci (1830). His Metra Es- chyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis et Aristophanis (1842) is a valuable study, and his lexicons to Sophocles (1870) and Eschylus (1873-76) are useful. For the Corpus of writers of the Byzan- time period, of which Niebuhr was general editor, he edited several historians, including Procopius, In 1846-31 he published a notable edition of Demosthenes (9 vols.). He is to be ranked among the leading Hellenie scholars of recent times. DINARIC RACE. world) along or near the coast of the northern Adriatic, especially in Bosnia, Dalmatia, and Croatia; also in Rumania, Venetia, among the Slovenes, the Ladings of the Tyrol, the Romansch of Switzerland, and in parts of France. Stature, 1.68 m. to 1.72 m. average; cephalic index, 85-86; brown or black wavy hair, dark eyes, straight cyebrows, long faces, delicate aquiline noses, tawny skin. Consult: Deniker, Races of Man (London, 1900); Ripley, Races of Europe (New York, 1899). Dinarzade DINAR ZADE. In the Arabian Nights, the sister of Scheherazade, whose husband purposed to strangle his bride at daybreak, spends her nights in the bridal chamber, and just before every dawn demands another story, thus interesting the Sultan and causing him to forego his intention. DINCKLAGE - CAMPE, dink la-ge-käm'pe, EMMY VON (1825-91). A German novelist. She was born on the family manor at Campe, Han- over. She traveled extensively in Europe and also visited the United States (1880). Her fine powers of observation and the poetie beauty of her descriptions, particularly of the Ems region, in which she lived. won for her the title 'Die Dichterin des Emslandes. Her novels, tales, and romances, several of which have been translated, include: Tolle Geschichten (1870); Emsland Bilder (1881); Jung Alarich's Braut (1890). A portion of DINDINGS, din-dingz. THE. the British colony of the Straits Settlements (q.V.), consisting of the small island of Pangkor, off the western coast of the Malay Peninsula, and a portion of Perak (q.v.) (Map: Burma, D 6). DINDORF, din'dorf, LupWIG AUGUST (1805- 71). A German classical philologist of dis- tinction. His abilities, however, were somewhat overshadowed by the genius of his elder brother, Wilhelm (q.v.), He was born in Leipzig, Jan- Hary 3, 1805. and studied under Gottfried Hermann. In 1823 he began his literary activity by publishing, with full critical commentary, Xenophon's Symposium and Agesilaus. From this time to his death he kept almost equal pace with his brother in editing critical texts, al- though he centred his attention chiefly on the historians. He published editions of Thucydides (1824), Xenophon (1853-66), Diodorus Siculus (last ed., 1867-68), Pausanias (1845). Polybius (1863-65), Zonaras (1866-68), Dio Cassius (1868-75), the collection of Historici Graci Minores (1870-71). For the Corpus Script. His- loriæ Byzantine he edited Johannes Malalas (1831) and the Chronicon l'aschale (1832). He also published editions of Hesiod and Euripides (1825), and, with his brother and K. B. Hase, prepared a revised edition of Stephanus's The- Con- saurus Græca Lingua (Paris, 1831-65). sult: Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Phi- lologic in Deutschland (Munich, 1883); Allge- meine deutsche Biographie, vol. v. (Leipzig, 1877). DIN'DYME'NE (Lat.. from Gk. Advµývy). The by-name of Cybele, from Mount Dindymus in Phrygia, which was sacred to the goddess. DINGELSTEDT dingel-stet. FRANZ VON (1814-S1). A German poet, dramatist, and nov- elist, born at Halsdorf, Hesse, June 30, 1814. He won popular favor but shocked oflicial Germany by his liberal Lieder eines kosmopolitischen Nachtwächters (1841). His Gedichte (1845) were less offensive and more poetie. His pecu- liar, somewhat frivolous, manner of dealing with serious problems is shown in his later sketches of travel (Das Wanderbuch, 1847) and his society novel, Die Amazone (1868). He adapted Molière and Shakespeare to the German stage, wrote Studien und Kopien nach Shakespeare (1858) and a successful tragedy. Das Haus der Barneveldt (1851). He won great success as a theatrical director at Munich, Weimar, and Vienna, was ennobled in 1867, and made baron ja 1876. He died in Vienna, May 15, 1881. DINDORF, WILHELM (1802-83). A German critic and philologist. He was born in Leipzig, studied at the university there, and early com- pleted (võls, vii, xiii., 1820-34) Invernizzi's edi. tion of Aristophanes, and himself prepared a much smaller edition of that poct (2 vols., 1827). From 1828 to 1833 he was professor of the his- tory of literature in the University of Leipzig. DINGLE, din'g'l. A seaport, the most west- erly town in Ireland, in County Kerry, 39 miles west-northwest of Killarney (Map: Ireland, A 4). It has an antique aspect, some of the houses having been built in the sixteenth century, in the Spanish style, with stone balconies, etc. The chief exports are corn and butter to Liver- pool. Dingle was incorporated in 1585. Popula- tion, 2000. DINGLE, den'glâ. A town of Panay. Philip- pines, in the Province of Iloilo, situated 21 miles north of Iloilo. There are gold deposits in the vicinity. Dingle was founded in 1825. Popula- tion, in 1898, 11,000. An DING'LEY, NELSON, Jr. (1832-99). American Congressman and journalist. He was born in Durbam. Maine, graduated at Dart- mouth in 1855, and in the following year became proprietor of the Lewiston Journal, of which he From 1862 was also editor for twenty years. to 1873 he served in the State Legislature, being Speaker in 1863 and 1864, and in 1874-75 was Governor. From 1981 until his death he waS in Congress, where he was prominent as a spe- cialist in tariff legislation, and was the framer of the tarif law of 1897, which bears his namic. DINGLINGER, dingling-er, JOHANN MEL- CHIOR (1665-1731). A German goldsmith and jeweler. He was born at Biberach, and in 1693 settled at Dresden. Here he became a favorite with Augustus the Strong and also with Peter the Great, who twice availed himself of his hospitality while on a visit to Dresden. His