770 DENDBOBOSA. DemoDesns opposite to Nioomedia; and he also men- tions Chaldtie and Pityodes. Pitjodes aeems to be the modern island of iVtinib^, east of ChalcitiB. It is hardly worth while to attempt to reconcile the authorities. The simplest explanatioa is to follow Hesjchios, who sajs that Chaldtis and Pityodes were the Demoneri. Prate retuns its name. There are at least eight islands in the graap of the Prince's Isles, besides some rocks. [6. L.] DENDBO'BOSA (Ary^p^tfoo-o, Arrian, Ind. c. 27), a place on the coast of Gedrosia, in the district of the Icthjophagi, yisited by Nearchos's fleet. Dr. Vincent thinks that it is the Acpdnf B(Aa of Ptolemy (vl 8. § 9), and the Derenobilla (Acpci^. tfiAAa) of Marcian (p. 23), and that it is, perhaps, represented by the modem JDiarain. ( Voy, qfNearch, Yol. i. p. 252.) [v.] DENTUELETAE (Aci^Anriu, SUab. vu. ^ 318 ; Aay0aA^ai, Steph. B.; Denseletae, Gic. m Pit, 34; Plin. ir. II), a Thracian people who ooca- pied a district called, after them, Dentheletica ( Aw- BflKirrucfi^ PtoL iiL II. § 8), which seems to have bordered on that occupied by the Maedi towards the SE., near the sonroes of the Strymon. Philip, son of Demetrius, in his fruitless expedition to the sum- mit of Mount Haemus after rejoining his camp in Maedica, made an incursion into the country of the Dentheletae, for the sake of provisiaD. (LiT. zl. 22.) (Gomp. Polyb. zzit. 6 ; Dion Cass. IL 23 ; Leake, Northern Greece, toI. iii. p. 474.) [E.B. J.] DENTHELU'TIS. [Mbssbmia.] DEOBBI'GA (AedfpiTo). 1. {Brmnot or Ni- randa de Ehro a town of the Antrigones in His- pania Tarraoonensis, on the high road from Astnrica to Caesaraugusta. (/^ AnL p. 454; Ptol. iL 6. §53.) 2. A town of the Vettones in Lusitania, only mentioned by Ptolemy; its site is unknown. (PtoL ii. 6. § 9.) [P. S.] DEOBBIGULA (Aco^pryo^Aa : Burgoe t), a town of the MuRBoai or Turmodogi in Hispanla Tarraoonensis, on the high road from Asturica to Caesaraugusta, 1 5 M. P. from Segisamo, and 2 1 M. P. from Tritium. {Itin, Ani. pp. 449, 454; PtoL ii. 6. § 52.) Its exact position is disputed. Cortes places it at Urbiel, Lapie at Tardajoe^ and Men- telle at Burgos, (^Cfeog, Comp. Etp. Mod. p. 336.) [P. S.] DEOTIUM. [FORTUNATAK.] DERAE (A^pai), a place in Messenia, where a battle was fought between the Messenians and Lace- daemonians in the second Messenian War. (Pans. ir. 15. § 4.) DERANEBILLA. [Demdrobosa.] DERANGAE. [Dranoab.] DERBE (A4p€n: Eth, At^imis), a fortified place in Isauria, and a port, according to Stephanos («. v.); but the port (Ai^A^r) is manifMUy a mistake, and it has been proposed by the French translators of Strabo to write Kifuni for it Stephanos also speaks of the form Derbeia as probably ui use; and of the fonn Derme, according to Capito; and some, he says, called it Delbia (AcA^efa), which in the language of the Lycaonians means juniper." The hst remark rather contradicts the first part of the description, which places Derbe in Isauria; and we know from the Acts of the Apostles (xiv. 6—21) that Derbe was in Lycaonia. St Paul went from loonium to Lystra, and from Lystra to Derbe. Both Lystra and I)erbe were in Lycaonia, Strabo (p. 569) places Derbe on the sides** of DERIS. Isauria, and almost in Ciqipadocia. It was the itsi- dence of Antipater, a great robber. He was defieated and killed by Amyntaa, who sdzed Deibe and the rest of Antipater's possessions. Cicero, in a letter to Q. Philippus, proconsul (b. c. 54), speaks of the hospitable relations between himself wd Amyntas, and he adds that they were exceedingly intiinate. Philippus, who was at this time proconsul of Asia, was displeased with Antipater for some reason. He had the sons of Antipator in his power, and Cicen> writes to him on their behalf. It does not appear when Cicero made this respectable acquaintance. It could not be when he was proconsul of Cilicia (b. c. 51), if the letter to Philippus is assigned to the tree time; but the date of the letter seems doabtful, and one does not see at what time Cicero could haTe became acquainted with Antipater, except during his Cilician proconsukhip. The position of IXerbe is not certain. Strabo (p 534), when he says that the eleventh praefecton of Cappadocia [Cafpaoocia, p. 507, b.] was extended as &r as Deibe, may intend to include Derbe in it, though he says elsewhere, as we have seen, that Derbe is in Lycaonia. After Strabo*8 time, Deriw formed, with Laranda and the adjacent paits of Taurus, a district called Antiochana, which was be- tween Lycaonia and Tyanitis. (PtoL v. 6.) Leake (Asia Minor, p. 101) concludes that " Derbe stood in the great Lycaonian plam, not far from the Ci- lician Taurus, on the Cappadocian side of Laianda; a situation precisely agreeing with that of the rains called the 1001 churches of Mount Kara^dagh." It was certainly further than Lystra from IcoDiam, as St Paul's travels show. Hamilton {ResearcheSy &c. voL iL p. 313) thinks that Derbe may have been at a place now called Divle, a name which resembles the form Delbia. JHvU is some distance south of the lake of Ak Gkieul^ but near enough to be de- scribed with reference to the lake; which makes it ahnost certain that the passage of Stephanos maybe safely corrected. The position of Lystxa also, if it is righUy fixed at Bir Bin KiUsseh, where there are ruins, corresponds with that of Iconium (Komk) and DivU. [G. L.] DERBICCAE or DE'BBICES (Acp^lfcmu, PtoL vi. 10. § 2; Aelian, V, H. iv. 1; Steph. B. s.v.; A^p^iKCT, Strab. xi. pp. 508, 514, 520; Diod. iL 9; Acp^^Kwi, Dionys. Per. 734, 738; Derbioes, Mela, iiL 5. § 4), a tribe, apparently of Scythian origfai, setUed in Margiana, on the left bank of the Oxns, between it, the Caspian sea, and Hyrcania. They seem to have borne various names, slightly changed from one to the other, — as Ctesias*on the authori^ of Stephanos, appears to have added to those quoted above, those of Derbii and Derbissi. Strabo (ile.) gives a curious account of their manners, which are clearly those of Scythians. " Th^ worship," says he, " the earth; they neither sacrifice nor sUy any female; but they put to death those among them who have exceeded their seventieth year, and the next of kin has the right to eat his flea^. They strangle and then bury old women. If any one dies before his seventieth year, he is not eatoi, but buried." Aelian mentions the same anecdote^ and implies that the persons slain are first ofl^ed in sacrifice and then eaten in solemn feast ( V. H, iv. 1 ). Strabo (xi. p. 517) had already shown that the manners of the people along the shores of the Caspian were ex- ceedingly barbarous. [V.] DERIS (A«p(r), a small town in the S. of Thraoe, onthebayofMelas. (ScyL p. 27.) [L. S.]
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