DIA 
doubled by Marc Antory, fo that it took in part of the 
city ; bu in order to te te the many abufes 
and diforders ee — paves of this kind, shears 
that uilty 
or difhoneft ae oa! fhould pa ene ek he fled to tie 
altar itfelf. 
The priefts, who officiuted in-this temple, were held in 
great elteem, and trufted with the care of facred virgins or 
priefteffes, but not till they were made eunuchs. They 
were called Exftiatores and Effene, had-a particular diet, and 
were not allowed, 7 their conftitutions,'to go into any pri- 
vate houfe. T ere maintained with the profits ascruing 
from the lake Sainutas, and another that fel! into it, which 
mutt ae ig ae confiderable, fince they erected a golden 
Ratue t e Artemidorus, who, being -fent to Rome, re- 
covered yen ey they had aad feized 
the public revenues. lt eae: ; 
Ephefus with their wives a children n, where 
— Arie fettival of ‘Diana with great pomp a magnifi- 
cence: making, 
mentioned he t. (Luke, - (Aas,- XVI. ‘ a according to 
eza faa. whofe peeuliar province it was to regu- 
late i publi {ports a oe anmuehy eieaass at Ephe- 
fus, in hon of ‘Dia hey were maintained with the 
false cae made during ae fports; for al Afia flocked to 
‘fee them. ‘great Diana of the Peaaas ” as fhe 
was ftyled by: ber blind adorers, was, according to Pliny, a 
fma!l — — “ebony, made by 
made in the trunk of 
m, Such was the firft rife of the aris that was 
os aid to Diana in this place. In procefs of time, the vene- 
ek for the goddefs aly increafing among the ne 
of Afia, a as ftately and magnificent temple was built 
r the pla ead ie elm ftood, and the ftatue of the 
it. This was the firit temple, but not 
quite fo fumptuous as that pier we 
though reckoned, as well as the 
of the world. The fecond was remainin s time, 
and in Strabo’s ; and is fuppofed to have been deftroyed in 
the reign of. Conftantine, purfuant to the edi€ by which 
:that emperor a tar all the temples of the heathens to 
be demolifhed: the former was burnt on the d 
—s motive which 
ny vay eae s the defi 
‘to hae ages. ates general o 
fhould prevent the sec iert of his intention, by pub- 
lifhing a decree, prohibiting the mention of his name. 
iminal 
y re- 
0 
on this occafion, willingly parted with them; and the fum 
aad raifed fevda for the Bieta on of the work till other 
4 
DIA 
contributions ‘came in, which; in a fhort time, amounted ‘to 
an immenfe treafure. ‘The archite& who fpevatnded ‘ 
conftru&tion of this edifice was Dinocrates Th he 
temple of which Strabo, Pliny, and other R 
have given an account. It ftood between the city and the 
: port, and was bui It, or and fuithea, as Livy tells us, (lib. i. 
c. 45,) in the reign of king Servius. This temple, after 
having rifen with increafing {plendour from feven repeated 
misfortunes, was finally burnt by the Goths, in hap third 
naval invalion, A. D. 260 
‘It appears, on undoubted evidence, that in Ragin dt 
common people, in ancient times, not 
ut of the gro cout: that, both by the one 
aod urefs, as likewife biy an infcription found not faf from 
it, appeared to be the figure of that goddefs, nd Mr. 
Camden thinks it not improbable, that there was die aud 
atemple of Diana where St. Paul’s cathedral now ftands, 
from the great number of ox-heads that were aad there i in 
digging up the church-yard in hea reign.of king Edward T., 
and were then looked upon entile facrifices: and in 
this opinion he i is followed by his i iiaie editor, (Gibfon 
Mr. Sammes, Mr. Howel, and o r W 
splice Wren, § 
particularly (in his Letter to Si Chri 
i its ealiseion @ 
had int 
ftood a temple of Diana: 
monies performed at as church, 0 
we 
-o 
Qu 
@ 
mony of t 
continued till the days of queen Blade Forth’ 8 Life 
of Erafmus, v ol. ii. 
at in Zoology. See 
a’s Peak Mountain, in Ce a one of the higheft 
in the ‘flan of St. Helena, rifing 2692 feet above the level 
of the fea 
i -— Tree. See Arzo 
#& Fanum, in se ye hy a a of 
Afia Minory in oe t the entrance of the Eux 
according to Ptolemy. tapi Urius had a ceaplen on this 
promontory.—Alfo, a Pee of Italy, in rag ere 30 ftadia 
from Capua. a waias ace of Greece, in Attic 
DIANDRIA, in Botany, (from dss, double, aie ap, a 
taining plants with two ftamens only, in 
the piitil. It confifta of three — ‘of which the firft, 
Monogynia, is by far the moft numero It feparates fuch 
of the natural order of labiate bomen: as have only two 
mens, from their ane in ea 14th clafs, Didynamia, whofe 
amens are four, m longer than the others; and 
this is one of the be a defeéts of all artificial fyttems, 
nor has any fyftem hitherto.contrived, however natural in 
its 
