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D1J 
Dit AZanes. See Manes. 
Dir Ninii. 
lympii, Olympian go 
e twelve ae bile 
ie aga alta 
the cake were the three fupreme 
deities, eet lies. and Minerva. They were fir received 
over all the Eat, and afterwerds, fucceffively, in Greece and 
taly. They are defcribed as indigetes by Virgil, Georg. ie 
yer, 499,. and as noitri by Juvenal, Sat. ii. ver. 145. 
DIJAMBUS, in Poeiry, the foot of a Latin verfe of 
four fyliables; it is compounded of two iambics, as 
feveritas. 
DIJON, in Geography, an ancient and confiderable town 
of France, in the department of the Cét — chief place 
of the department, and of a diltri& a ame name, 
fituated in an agreeable plain between the river Ouche on 
the fouth, and a fireamlet, called Sufon, on the north, 
228 miles S.E. of Paris, ie N.E. of Autun, 63 ° 
Befangon, 138 N. of Lyons. . It-contains many 1 remark 
i modern palimen feveral of which are 
2 an oe elevation and boldzefs. St. Mary’s, 
t rch of our lady (Notre Dam me), is a Go thic 
edifice, sf eae loa and uncommon liglitnefs on deli- 
acy. It was raifed i 13th century. The galleries 
a {mall columns of a acces in diameter, and from 
metres high, all of a fingle block. ‘Tne arch is 
e qlicle conititutes an un- 
ods, the name given by the 
to whom they had 
equally remarkable for its grandeur and beauty. ‘The {pi 
Behind the choir of this pve a i8 
wlar opening. in the 
Io o4 columns, the thaft “of whic hi is of a fin; 
third of ye —— is buried under ground ; it is the ruin of 
a Pagan tem 
ee is the native city of Boffuet, Crebiilon, and Piron. 
It is divided into three {:@ions, which form each a feparate 
canton, one of — ‘+h comprifes 13 communes, and 11 
inhabitants, the oth:r 17 communes, ve 12,1 175 inbabitan ts, 
the third 14 communes, and 11,939 inhabitants. 
a territorial extent of 4073 Ciba e 
itfelf has altogether a population of 21,000 individuals. 
principal manufaétures are thofe of woollen {tuffs, hofiery, 
m § 
GC = 
a cotton {pinnery. 
s chief place of the department and of a diftrié, Dijon 
has a prefeGt, four courts of juflice, and a regilter office. It 
is the fee of a bifhop. 
The eae trade of the difri@ is with corn and cattle, 
bet chiefly with wine, which is fent to Paris, Strafbourg, 
Holland, and Switzerland. The produce of a French ar- 
pent in wine averages in this diftri& a net profit af 89 
French livres. It yields Burgundy of the very firit qua- 
ity. 
The population of the diftriét of Dijon amounts to 
122,532 aacuds difperfed in 14 cantons, and 270 com- 
47° 19’. E.long. . Herbin Statiftique de la France. 
obfervations of four years, ending in 1781, the 
temperature t iease is 52°°8’. Th dard tem- 
the Temperature of Places, &c. p. 80. 
s, leather, wax-candies, muftard, fweet-meats, and, 
DIL 
Dijon waa founded by the emperor Aurelian, when he 
vere Gaul,‘which, in its origin, was a cattle, and not a 
LIA, —— in Antiquity, an Athenian fefti- 
bo celebrated in as r of 
e city. For 
fee Potter’s Archaeol, Gree. lib. ti. c, 20. tom. i. p. 331. 
DIKE, in Aes a name frequently eae to a 
ditch. It likewife fignifies a dam, of earth, 
raifed to prevent inundations ; and fometimes even a waters 
ditch ufed as a divifion-fence. 
The word feems formed from the verb, to dig; though 
others eae to derive it from the Dutch, dif, a dam, fea- 
bank, or w 
- Dike, or * Ds ‘ke, allo denotes a work of ftone, timber, 
or fafcines, ernie to oppo ofe ia a or paffage of the 
waters of the fea, ariver, lake, e hike. 
word comes from the es cee or diz, a heap 
of my to bound or item the water. Junius and Menage 
take the Flemifh to have borrowed ae pee from the 
Greek tuys, wall. Guichard derives it from the Hebrew 
ne 
hefe dikes are ufually e'evations of earth, with hurdles 
or {takes, ftones, and other ers. 
aed dike of ioe is a ie effels faftened to the 
botto The dikes of Hol are. frequently broke 
peonet and large ati of la nda are then drowned. 
DIK O, in Geogr aphy, a town of Bohemia, in the 
circle of Konigingratz ; nine miles E, S. E. of Gitfchin 
DILAPI TION, a wafteful deftroying, or letting 
iene aa elpecially parfonage houfes, run to ruin and de- 
cay, for want of neceflary reparation. 
As cao lies for dilapidations, seis in the a 
court by the canon law, or in the courts of common law 
ceffor, if Living, or, if d 
It is faid to be good caufe of deprivation, if the bifhop, 
parfon, vicar, oy other ano Baltical perfon, dilapidates the 
buildings or cuts down timber, growing in the patrimony of 
the church, unlefs for cae repairs. oll. . 86. 
11 Rep. 98 Godb. 2 And that a writ of prohibition 
ill lie againft him in the courts of co » 43 . 
158. oll, Rep. 3 By ftatute 13 Eliz. c. to. if any 
ipritual perfon makes over or alienates his goods, with in- 
ent to defeat his fucceflors of their remedy for dilapida- 
fica the fucceffor fhall have fuch remedy againft the 
wae in the ecclefiaftical court, as if he was the executor 
i fo ag es recovered for dilapida- 
Cs Ti. in the repal 
the fame houles. vith tno 0 years, on penalty of forfeiting 
double the value to the c 
LATA 
largement of bodies after a itate i comare ; on- 
fequence of the intreduGion of other fubfances amongit 
their component particles; thus, when p } air is 
rawn out of the receiver of an air-pump, the remaining 
air becomes dilated ; 
thus alfo ca, paper, &a. are dilated 
by moifture; and ail ae are dilated by heat. See Eras- 
TICITY, and Ex XPANSION. 
Divatation, in Guns. denotes the laying open any 
orifice, or the lips of a wound wider, or the eoreuon 
of any veffel, or the like. 
This is done by an inftrument called a dilatatorium. 
TED Vein, in Afininz,-called allo a flat vein, 
or freak, denotes sae aad ‘of ore as lies between ftrata, 
hke. feams of coal, and commonly occurs in argil.aceous. 
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