DE ™M 
of yao: for sag furniture, &c. are obtained. N. lat. 
6° 40'. W. Jong. 45'0 
DEME ROSESA, in Ancient Geogra “phys a ae of the 
ifland of Aibion, tuppofed by Gale to a mfrie 
DEMERS fomou. See Lea 
E ,in Law. See Demain. 
DEMETA, in Ancient Ge raphy, were a of 
South Wales, feated, according to Ptolemy, next to the 
Siures, and poffefled that part of ie country, en is now 
divided into Caermarthenfhire, Pembrokefhire, and Cardi- 
anfhire ; to which Baxter thinks Brecknackfhire and Rad- 
Glories fhould be added. This country is called by fome 
of the moft ancient of our monkifh writers, Demetia, from the 
name of its inhabitants; and it is not improbable, that they 
ane their rcountry derived their name from ‘“ Deveit,’”? or 
he had defeated the Iceni. For the 
any of thefe Cangians reached to the Irifh fea, which 
very well agrees with the fituation of Demetia, (Tacit. An. 
lL. xii. c. 33). s the Demete did not refift the Romens 
much obftinacy, and as their country lay in a remote 
‘corner, and was then, and long after, 
da. 
DEMETRIA, Anpnzpe, in Antiquity, a feftival in thes 
nour of Ceres, called by the Greeks demeter, Snunrnp, of da, 
i. @. yny earth, and pnrnp, mother. It was ufual on this occa- 
fion for the worthippers to lafh themfelves with whips made 
of the bark of trees, and a puzonres, Pott. Archeol. 
Gree. tom. i. lib. ii. cap. 20. pe 379. 
Demerria was likewife the name . panei ie ce- 
lebrated sy the oo in hon Demetrius Polior- 
s the fame with cee i vere called Dio- 
ny fia. at 
DEMETR TAS, in fohsidae ' Geography, a town of Greece, 
<a iven 
in Theffaly.—Alfo to the town of Sicyonia. 
—Alfo,a town of Afia, i in aoe fituated near to and is of 
the — fea.— Afia, now Ker- 
kouk, e mountains and §.S.E. of Arbela. It is 
ealled jee? by Ptolemy. 
TRIUM, a place of Theffaly, near the Pelafgian 
gulf, where was a grove facred to Ceres.—Alfo, a port in 
the northern part of the ifle of Samothrace, near the pro- 
montory of the fame name. 
DEMETRIUS I. in Biography, furnamed Poliorcetes, 
king of Macedon, was fon of Antigonus, a captain under 
Alexander the Great, and one of - Spe effors. as 
born about.the year 340 of his firft military 
effays he was unfucce(sful. Pele ee invaded Syria, 
Demetrius was fent with an. army to oppote him, and: was 
DEM 
completely defeated at Gaza Soon after, another oppore 
an nity was giv- ah vn ot retrievh. -g his character w' icik he 
did by vanquithing Ptolemy’ 8 g-neral, taking him prifoner, 
aty was ishmediately entered ito bitween 
Antigenus a the princes confederated againft him, which 
was foon broken; and Demetrius from this time fet himfelf 
to deliver Greece from the tyranny under which it had long 
laboured. He landed at Athens, and after various fuccefs 
he affembled the people, and folemnly reftored their ancient 
democratic government; giving them, at the fame time, 
large prefents of corn, timber, re alae ageliad of whic 
they ftood moft in need. The niarfs in return for this 
liberality invelted their benefactors wilh the er honed ‘ 
ue to guardian deities, and 
Greece, Demetrius: 
c another war againft Ptolemy. He 
narmy in Cilicia, and affembling a numerous fleet, 
preceeded to Cyprus. Here he defeated Menelaus the 
brother of Ptolemy, and belieged him in the town of Sala- 
mis. Ptolemy came with a large fleet in aid of his brothers. 
and a naval engagement en{ued, tn which the whole force of 
Ptolemy was almoft entirely dettroyed, and he was obliged 
to return to Egypt with eight galleys only. whole 
ifland, with all the warlike flores and magazines, fell i ie the 
hands of the vitor: and Menelaus and his fon were amo ng 
the prifoners; but thefe, with a genuine greatnefs of mind, 
he 
liberated without a ranfom. Antigonus henceforth af 
umed the title of king, and gave it alfo to ng 
met 
complete afcendency. His paul however, 
never permitted him to forget the bufinefs of wa s 
an able mechanician, and applied his knowledge a the con= 
ftru€tion of military engines, that were particularly ufeful to- 
_- him in the various fieges which he undertook, and in which 
he was generally fuccefsful ; though at Rhodes his fill was 
baffled, and he was ob iged to retire after he had continued 
a b uce 
reftored eal se ig the Grek fates ae of Therm 
en up his quarters at Athens, where his: 
goo oa freon, and the high niet which vad ace 
quired, dre m the citizens the moft fervile Sahin. 
which ene a to all s of RLF ce and th 
roffeft debauchery, His ce dunes with the Athenians can- 
not be better fhewn than by obfe ie. that when he de: 
manded to be initiated into gone mytteries, which could’ 
only be done at certain periods of the year, they actually 
changed the names of two of their months to accommodate 
his wifhes. Demetrius was called from Greece by his fa- 
ther, againft whom a league was formed by Caflander, Se~ 
leucus, and Lyfimachus. Th the battle of Ipfus, B.C. gor, his 
ter ing 
ted the vanquifhed city with an 
a ian Py male aeee it with a large fu PP'y. Leg 
