DIL» 
or muft we here omit that beautiful nara of Tertul- 
co Ghee he clears the Chriftians, and accufes Trajan, 
o- had forbad the fecking them ae aid yet pean them 
ss be punifhed when found: “ O fententiam neceffitate con- 
ufam! negat inquirendos, ut inion andat puni- 
ndos nocentes: parcit et fevit, diffimulat et animad- 
sk quid ve raae cenfura circumvenis? fi a cur 
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id, as being de feat 
there being a middle degree, or form, between. handfome 
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2. That the dilemma aes ve 7 alone, and that 
the perfon who a it be liable to have it retorted 
upon him. This the ae in nh ie ated dilemma 
of the fophift Prono. which the aan, with all 
their wifdom, were not able to refolve. 
outh 
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y me in Paes ie 
oa, ; and if 
in puriuance aE our cov 
me, or agai 
it, you m 
fore, whether the caufe goes for m me, you 
pay me the reward. Nay, retorts Enathlus, which wa 
foever the caufe go, you will have nothing: for if I prevail, 
the fentence gives it that nothing is due to you; and if I 
lofe, then there is nothing due by the covenant ; and there- 
fore, whether I gain or lofe the caufe, I will not pay you ; 
for nothing will be due to you. It is faid, that the court, 
unable to decide in favour of either party, ordered them both 
to appear in os again an hundred years afterwards, to re- 
ceive judgme 
After the like manner, an ancient prieftefs ee ue 
fon from haranguing the poe ie this — “na 
injufta fueferis;’’ fays fhe, ‘* habebis Deos iratos: fin 
juita, tratos Hse homines: = the haa thus neereee Y the 
dilemma on bis re am aye ‘ expedit ad po- 
pulum verba face, nam i juita dixero, ii me amabunt; fi 
injufta, hom 
D LEN, in ene aphy, a river of Elindooftan, which rifes 
beyond, that is, to the north or north-weft of Ghizni, and 
r daiz saci: river named Semil; after 
C 
uing its courte towards Nughz, receives near ‘that place 
another river, which comcs from the quarter of Candahar. 
See Cow 
DILETTANTE, Ital. ; equivalent with amateur, Fr. 
The word is formed, odern times, from dilettare of di- 
le&ator, Lat. ; e whe gives ae receives delight from the 
facceffion and oan ation of founds in mufic 
An Iralian dilettante is one delighting in me who has 
made a confiderable progrefs in the art, not a rofeffor, 
but merely os his own amufement and that of his ue 
See AMATEU 
DI ILICTUM, aterm ufed, 2 aay oe to exprefs a 
ring water upon fand, ftones, earth, 
ron ppreemmed aaa on ; 
from this brine, a falt, for the afe of the table, de 
by sk aa in h i 
the wo At y> 
work of this kind, where they make at the rate of eight 
DIL 
hundred loaves of falt in a week, each loaf weighing four 
hundred weight. 
DILIGENCE, in Ethics, a virtue which confifts in the 
active and continued exercife of the faculties, and ufe of 
means for the attainment of any objet, whatever that ob- 
ject may be. 
Dizicence, in Scots Law, fignifes either that attention 
and care which perfons are bound to exercife in the condu@ o 
certain eatin or ee ~ which varies according to the 
nature of the contra it denotes pasha w orms o 
by which a eerie cesous to ma ood his 
cCting the perfon of his debe or by ae 
i al‘ ton, or by carry- 
his perfonal eftate affeéted. Of 
viz. inhibition and adjudication, which {ee ag ae 
latter diligences are arreffment and ee whic 
ILIGENZA, io the Malian me 
r {weet manner of finging or be 
 DILIMNIT-E, in Ancient G iat ae of the moft 
conliderable of oe nations hich cae. Perfia, on this: 
fide of the Tig 
DILIN, in " Gengraphy, a town of Hungary; two- miles 
se Schem 
3, in oe Gamay: Lauron, a port on the 
coatt ‘of Gilli Narbonneniis, eight miles weft from Incarus, 
according to the Itinerary of Antonine. 
the frft fort we have two, 
The 
Carri. 
DILL, in Botany. See Ane 
Divi, in Agriculture, a name ape ied to a plant ‘free 
quently ae as a field crop in Gloucefterfhire, and 
udge, in his furvey its that a fuppofes to 
ative of Portu 
g m is often piven 
to a large fort of a which has been fae grown for hay 
. for a great length o 
e. 
t is found, eco die to the writer juft mentioned, to af- 
ford an Pagani hay for all forts of cattle, but particularly 
ucking la ) in 
highly pence milk; and i 
erty of thriving well cn foils of the poor, thin, and im 
verifhed kind, where other forts of artificial grais-feeds pond 
afford but a feanty returi. In colour the feeds incline to 
red, refembling thofe of the vetch in thape, but fmaller. 
vfual to fow them broadcalt in March or the follow. 
ing month, in the proportion of about a bufhel and a half to 
the acre. They foon cover the ground, and require no hoe- 
ing or other attention till they are ready for cutting, which, 
in the moit Favourable feafors, is feldom the cafe before the 
middie or latter end of September, when left for feed 
dt 
fore the oe withers, and thenit produce 
the acre: but this !s confidered asthe leaf bens wfcitl mode, as 
the Aiba after the Sigs has-b-en threfhed — but little, if 
at all, inferior to the early mowed. or pod, has 
the refemblance of a cee and fhould always be fuily ripe bes 
fore it is harvetted, though, when ‘in too great a ftate of ma 
turity, it is apt to fhed on being moved 
pt 
The qua ae ie Pe which isafforded per acre is frequently. . 
fo much as twen ur bufhels ; the price varying from five 
fhillings to ae ‘hillings the bufhel. 
n ground with barley-it has been found to be excellent 
Tg 
food for fattening cattle-and hogs. 
h fe 
8 ufed for. a foft. 
M. d’Anville fays . 
that it is the port of Pontheu, which is eight miies from: 
it has the very excellent aie 
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