DILIS. TIm genera] ispocl of the ratley of the Lieoaa uninpuuls perfMtlj witb the deacription of it giren bj Honn {_Ep. L Ifl. 1—14), uid ill tnTsUen who hiTe viflitfli it concar in prmiNng ite buntj (ud [dnnntDflB. Until ratj latelj it iru ■ >«tnd«l ■pot, nnlf TJntfd Ijj ttnngan, though within an ttty lide of Tieoli, sai the niinple mumeni ud nutio nrtnei of ita inhatdtants in said still to le- ■onbk thoss ef the ancient Ssbiues. Two other nunes ranuda to be mentioMd, which then ia nuon Co connect with tiie Sabine tarm of Horace: the Hon Locrttili!!, wbo« pleaxuit ebades conld aJlnre yaunra from Lycseus (Corra. i. 17), naj be oMj identified with Uie lofij Monte Gen- DIHDYMUU. 7TB imro, which forms the head of the TsDey of LSetma, and Mpantea it from the Boman Campagna. [Lu- CHKTii.is MoBB.] The slopng Uetica (Urtiai cn- baoa, ii, oa the other hand, omnot be fixed with accmacy: it was probablf one of the lower alopcg or ondetlalli of the nune monnlaia masa, ia the iirnne- diata nrighbtmrhood of the valley. The mrdem bcalitife of the nlley of the Ltcoua bare been described in great detail by ChaDff (if oiMK (fffonvK, ToL iii. pp. 1 50—363), and mon recently by DennU in MilmaD's Lfe of Horace, jq). 97— no, and Kibbj (^Diatorai diRoma, vol. u. p. i. HodeiD VUU(i DILIS, a ptara in Gallia on the coast between Masailia (JfarMiUe) and FoesH Maiianae (_F<a-la- MarligiKi). Tbe Maritime Itin. (Wees. p. 507) places Incams ( Carry) next to Masiili*, then " Dills positio," 8 H.P. from locame, and then Fosne 12 M. P. further. The edition of Wosseling makes it 30 from Dilia to Fouae; but three MSS. have IS. Walckenaer(ffB;s.,*c.vol, iii. p.ia2)anpp(iaealhat the number 20 is derived from some Itinerary which omitted Dilii, and gave only the dittance from Incarus to Foanej which seems likely. Tbe modem site may he Carre. [0. L.] DILUNTUM. [Dalldktdm.] DIUALLUM (AlfiBAoi, A^iAq, Avi^XXq, Po- lyb. iiL 18, vii. 9), an important fortnas in liijri- cnm, taken by the Romans under L. Aemilioa Pan- lus, in their war witb Demetriu of Pharta; and which neemg to have been in the neigbbonrbDod of the Parthim, if not iododed within ^ir territory. (Liv.iiii.l2: Po)yb.2.0 [E.B.J.] DIMASTUS. [MTCOiitTa,] DIMETAE or DEMETAE (Ahmv™). ■ people in Britain, mentjaned by Ptolemy (li. 3. § 23) as lying west of the Klurea, and bavins, aa towns, Lnentinum and Maridanitm (Caer-mar(Acii). This gives them Paxbrokethirt and Carmartiai aa cer- tain portions of the area, and, probably, aome partj of the neighboiiring conntiw. Zh'erf, as the Webih name of a district, is the toot Dimet, In its modem form. [B. G. L,] DINARETDU. [Clbides.] DINDYME'NE. [Dihdtmum.1 DiironiuM. rcyzicDs.] DrSDYMUM (t AWu/wi-). Stmbo (p. 5B7) speaks of a mountain Dindymiun which ris« above Peaainns in Galatia; and from this mountain the goddess called Dindymene haa hor name. He adds thai the river Sangarius flows Dear it. In Ptolemy the name is incorrectly written Didyma. &tral» says in another place (p. 626), " the Hermos is doeo to Hyria, flowing from a mountain sacred to Din- dymene, and through the Catacecaumene into the territory of Sardis." Perhape he may have followed Herodotus sa to the source of the Hennus, who say* (L 80) that the Hernias Sows from a monntaui aacred to the mother Kndymene, as ot
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Dindymene haa been givei numntun. aieidianua (t. c. AlrSufui) descnoee the Dindyma as " monntalns of the Troad, whence Rhea is called Dindymene; '^ but there is a mistake here, fin- neither the monnlain i£ GaUtia, nor Dindymum near Cyiicns, is within the limits of the Troad. In some maps Mount Dindjmnm is placed near Pesunus, and Mount Dindymene at the source of the Hcrnitu; ' ut there is no Haunt Diudymcne. The mountain -act in which the Hemins riseg is the Momd Dogk, bich is the Dindymum <tf Herodotus. Tbe Bfayn- daens also rises iu this moonlaiD n^ai, and the chief bnuich of the Uaeander. It is poaoble that a
