DEV 
ufiafm ; and feparating religion totally fro Negond 
oa affections, have reduced it to a frigid obfervance of what 
. order t ar 
an fo 
that devotion oaueies {pirit of ele in judging of the 
manners and characters of sain r, that perpetual rapture 
and fpiritual j joy belong to dev 
Uuder the 
Pp 
me of Scans are ually underftood cer- 
tain religious peace, which a n makes it a rule to 
difcharge regularly ; and with en if this exatitnde be 
foun — n folid piety; otherwife it is vanity, or fuper- 
ftiti 
Dev voTion, among the Romans, was a fort of facrifice, 
or ceremony, whereby they: ‘confecrated themfelves to the 
fervice of fome perfon. 
The ancients had a notion, that the life of one might be 
redeemed by the death of another: and hence were thofe 
devotions fo frequent for the lives of the emperors. Thefe 
were either private or public ; of the former fort were the de- 
after devoting himfelf to his country, threw himfelf into the 
hands of his enemies, and was killed, is faid to have gained 
On this occafion Decius gave 
e, * Valeri, opus eft; 
agedum; prei verba quibus me pro legibus devoveam.” 
‘The public devotions were poe by the di€tator or 
pane at the head of an army. The form is tranfmitted to 
<0, ) and is as follows: ‘“* Father 
atever name it is lawful 
whic 
t 
my, and in name of our legions, that 
Auguitus, tho eh aa to aia this vile aad infamous 
Sapeery, yet ial the author. 
us bad been - 
DEU 
Cornelius Nepos ufes the word devotion for a kind- of 
punifhment, confifting o rer ig seine and marks ‘of ins 
famy. e cu Exec ON 
Whenever the law devoted any one t 
mitted to kill him Rom 
in thele = rms ¢ 
eft 
to death, it was pers 
ulus’s ee was conceived. 
ronus clienti fraudem faxit, ho 
. If any patron defrauds his client, let him e- 
voted. 3 It was to a or — and the other heal dei- 
ties, that criminals were 
NG, in Heli. Whe o fifhes are borne 
in an efcutcheon, in eding poftur e heralds deno- 
minate it ceoues beaut fifhes abe all ie food 
ole. 
«Si pat 
DEUPRAG, in oe a town in. the eauniry of 
Thibet; 15 miles S. of Sirina 
DEVRACOTA, a trad PF lan d on the coaft of Orixa 
in the fouthern part of aa ew called the 
had been ceded to the French Ea& 
viceroys of Go corde. 
240,000 French livres per annum. 
la France, vol. vii. 
REN, or Duren, anciently Marcodurum, was for- 
merly a town of the duchy of Juliers, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, in Germany, but is now a town of France, in the 
department of the Roer, diftrié& of Atcha fituated 
on the river Roer, 15 miles S. of Juliers, 30 S. W. 0 
logne. E. long. 9° Lat. 50° 46’. It. contains 3489 in- 
habitants, and is the chief place of a canton, which, in 57 
communes, comprifes a population of 16,695 individuals. 
DEURIOPUS, in Ancient Geography, a country of Ma- 
Ponta 5 lituated between the 
Its principal towns were - 
anium, Alalcomene, and Stymbara, foppofed to be the 
fame with Stubera, 
DEUS Depir, or God’ s gift, in Biography, pope, fucceffor 
to — ae in the year 614. He-reigned but three 
and w ae it few Neg tran{mitted to us 
are him, pane than that he waé a native o 
and fon of a fubdeacon of the oak and that his cleGtion 
to the coe was unanimous 
benevolent man, and to 
Herbin Siatittiqne a. 
man by bringing thei 
probably gave little credit to fuch a report, but thought it 
neceflary to infert it .to shawn the minds of the Bevolers to 
the Catholic ce ore 
DEUS , Deus le Vili the ery of battle among 
the Cro oe in their feveral expeditions into the Eaft for 
he council of Cler- 
Y secon: 
DEDHINGIUS, ‘Awrxony, in Biography, a learned 
phyfician, and voluminous writer on every part of medicine, . 
and on other branches of natural philofophy, was saul at.. 
Meurs, in the duchy of Juliers, Oétober a 16 Af. 
ter acquiring a proficiency’ in the learn tiga oe to 
which were added the Arabic and Perfian, “he went to ne - 
