764 DOEANTEIUS CAMPUS. p. 328). The lake of lodnnina was known in an^ tiquity by the name of Pambotis (no^iScrrii Xi/u^)i which was placed in Molossis. (Enstath. mi Bom. Od, iii. 189.) We have alreadj seen that the temple of Dodona was probablj outside the dtj. Lrake supposes that the former stood on the peninsnla now oocapied by the citadel of lo&nnina, but there are no remains of the temple en this spot (Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. iv. p. 168, foil.; respecting the oraclei see Conies, De Oractdo Dodimaeo^ Groningen, 1826; Lassaulx, Daa Pelatgitche Orakel des Zeut zu Do- dona, Wttrzbaig, 1840; Ameth, Ueber das Tau- benorakel von Dodona^ Wlen, 1840; Preller, in Pauly's Beal-Enelopadie, art. Dodona; Hermann, Lehrbuch der goUudien$tUchen AUertL. der Grie- chen, § 39.) DOEANTEIUS CAMPUS. Stephanas B. («. e. AoiayTos rcSloy) places it in Phrygia: the name came from Doeas. The situation of the pl«un is unknown. Apollonius Rhodius (iL 370, &c. 989, Sec.) places a Aotdyrtoy wMoy at the mouth of the Thermodon in Pontus, where the Amazons dwelled. [G. L.] IXytlCHE (AoLxn% a town in Perrhaebia in Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Doliche, with the two neighbouring towns of Azorus and Pythium, formed a tripolis. Leake identifies it with the small village of DukUsta, ** where in a ruined ehnrch are two fragments of Dane columns 2 feet 6 inches in diameter, and in the burying-ground a Bepulchral stone, together with some squued blocks." (Polyb. xxviii. 1 1 ; Liy. xliL 53, xliv. 2 ; PtoL iiL 13. § 42 ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 344.) DOLICHE, DOLICHISTE (AoX/xiJiAoXixfoni: Eth, AoXixc^^t AoXixlrrns). Stephanus B. («. v.) describes Doliche as an island close to the Lydan coast, on the authority of Callimachus; and he adds that Alexander, in his Peripltu of Lycia, calls it Dolichiste. It is menti<Mied by Pliny (v. 31) and Ptolemy (v. 3). Pliny places it oppotdte to Chi- maera; and both Pliny and Ptolemy name it Doli- chiste. Doliche or Dolichiste, a long Island, as the name implies, is now called Kahava, It lies near the southern coast of Lycia, west of the ruins of Myra, and in front of the spacious bay also named Kahava. The island is a ** narrow ridge of rock, incapable of yielding a constant supply of water; each house had therefore a tank hollowed in the rock, and lined with stucco." (Beaufort, Karamania, p. 21.) Leake {Asia Minora p. 127) speaks of the '* ruins of a large city, with a noble tiieatre, at Ka- hava, in a fine harbour formed by a range of rocky isUnds.'* But this theatre appean, from what Leake says, to be on the coast of the mainland; and Beau- fort observes that " the whole of these islands and bays may be included under the general Greek name Kakava." The island of Doliche is now unin- habited. [G. L.] DOLI'OKIS ( AotoWr : Eth, AoXfofcs). Stepha- nus B. («. V. AoXloyes) describes the Doliones as the " inhabitants of Cyzicus," and he adds thatHecataeus called them Dolieis: they were also called Dolionii. The Doliones (Strab. p. 575) are a people about Cyzicus who extended from the river Anepus to the Rhyndacus and the lake Dascylitis. [Dabctlium.] The names Dolionis and Doliones are cimnected with the earliest traditions about Cyzicus; and in Strabo's time the Cyziceoi had the Dolionis. Strabo (p. 564) found it hard to fix the limits of the Bithynians, the Myidans, the PhiygianSi as well as of the Do- DORA. liones, those about Cyzicus; and we cannot do mora than he did. Apollonius Rhodius (Arg. i. 947) doubtless followed an old tradition wh^ he described the Doliones as occupying the isthmus, by which he means the isthmus of Cyzicus, and the plain, which is probably the plain on the mainland; and here, he says, reigned Cyzicus, a son of Aeneas. [G. L.] DOLOME'NE (AoAo/ii?nf, Strab. xvL p. 736), one of the districts m the plain country cf Assyria, adjoining the capital Minus (Nineveh). [V.] DOLONCAE, DOLONCI {A6?ioyicoi), aThrwaan tribe, which seems to have belonged to the race of the Bithynians. (Plin. iv. 18; Solin. 10; Steph. B. ». V. ; Eustath. ad Diontfe. Per. 323.) [L. S.] DOXOPES, DOLO'PL/L [Thbsbalia.] DOMANITIS, or, as it is sometimes written, Do- MANETIB. [PAPHLAOOiriA.] [G. L.] DOMERU& [DoBEBUB.] DOMETI'OPOLIS (iutfurio&voXts : Eth. Ao- ficrioiroAlnit), is described by Stejdianus («. v.) 9s a city of Isanria. Ptolemy (v. 8) makes Dometio- polis a dty of Cilicia Trachea. The site is un- known. [G. L.] DO'NACON (Aoyociir), a viUage in the territocj of Thespiae in Boeotia, where the river Narcissus rii<es. It is mentioned hy Pausanias after notidng the river Olmius, and befbre describing Creuais and Thisbe. Leake places Donacon near a hamlet called Tatezd, at a spot "where there is a copious fountain surrounded by a modem endosure, of which the materials are andent squared blocks: in the ooni- fields above are many remains of former habitations.** (Paus. ix. 31. § 7 ; Leake, Northern (Treeoe, voL iL p. 501.) DONU'SA or DONY'SA (A6wvca; whence come the corrupt forms Aoi^oi/trta, Steph. B. §,v. ; Eustath. ad Dionge. Per. 530; Dionysia, MeL ii. 7), a small island near Naxos, said by Stephanus to have been the island to which Dionysus carried Ariadne from Naxos, when punned by her father Minos. This tale, however, appeare to have arisen from con- foimding Donusa, the name of the island, with Dio- nysus, tiie name o^ the god. Stephanus also states, though we know not on what authority, that the island bdonged to Rhodes. Viigil {Aen. iii. 125) gives to Donusa the epithet of "viridis," which Servius explains by the colour of its marble; but this statement is probably only invented to explain the epithet. Donusa was used as a place of banishment under the Roman empire. (Tac Ann. iv. 30.) DORA (t& tkStpa), a maritime town of Palestine, locally situated in tiie half tribe of Manasseh, on this side Jordan, but left in possession of the old Canaanitish inhabitants. {Jwdgea, i. 27.) Scylax (p. 42), who calls it Dorus, says that it was a dt/ of the Sidonians. It is frequently mentioned bj Joaephus, whose notices enable us to identify it with the modem village of ronltaro. It was a dty of Phoenicia, near Mount CarmeL (Josej^. ViL § 8; c. Apion. iL 9.) It was a strong fortress when TryphoQ held it against Antiochus Pius (^AnL xiiL 7. § 2). Caesarea b placed by him between Dora and Joppa, both which maritime towns are described as having bad harboure, owing to thdr exposure to the south-west wind, which rolled in heavy breakers upon the sandy coast, and forced the mochants to anchor in the open sea (xv. 9. 6). St Jerome de- scribes it as andoitly a most powerful dty, but a ruin in his time (EpitajA. Paulae), dtuated 9 miles from Caesarea, on the road to Ptdemais. {OnomatL $. v.; Rehmd, PalaeiL pp. 738—741.)
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