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Stephens derives it from the Greek semvears and wil! bave 
it wrote dipacr. Menage deduces it from the Italian adefnare, 
to dine; and that from the Latin definere, to leave 0 
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The and Tartar, emperor of China, after he has dined, 
makes eat icsuan by his heralds, that he gives leave for all 
the other kings and ‘ewig of the earth to go to dinner 5 
as if they waited for his leave. 
= the general, it is says to be the moft pata to make 
e fupper, and to eat the more plentifully at dinner, 
efpecialiy for tender, el people. This is the fen- 
timent of the Schola Salernitan 
** Ex magna coena ftomacho fit maxima — : 
Ut fis no&te levis, fit tibi coena brev 
Yet Bernardinus Paternus, an eminent Italian phyficians 
maintains contrary, in a treatife i aie on the fubje&. 
The Romans, we are affured, never minded dioner ; but 
deferred ee good cheer to the aes ea they made 
their grand mea 
DINO, in Biogra by, a se apsanae ee was bor 
about the middie of the 13th century. He ftudied law 
profeffor of Bologna, witha handfome ttipend. In 1296, he 
refufed an invitation to Naples fent by the king himfelf, and 
in the following year he removed to Rome, where Boniface 
VIII. employed him is compiling the fixth book of decretals | 
ae nea in 1298. Asa recompence for this labour, he hoped 
for the office of cardinal, and to enable him to hold it, he fepa- 
any from his wife, who entered into aconvent, and enrolled 
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great authority. His. commentary on the rules of law was 
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nion ot Dino fhouid be decifive. Moreri. 
DINOCRATES, a pee architeét of Macedonia, who 
flourifhed about 330 years B aving formed a arate 
of fingular conceptions in the exercife of his profcffion, h 
witfhed to recommend himfelf to Alexander the Great, whilft 
this conqueror was atchieving his military exploits. Accord. 
ingly he joined his army, and obtainins aceefs to Alexander, 
he propoled to him a icheme for laying out mount Athos 
into the form of a man, having in his left hand the walls of a 
great city, and all ea rivers = the mountain eae tile 
his right hand int € s.) ander, 
though feemingly pleated ne the rand def pa deferred = 
execution of it. Neverthelefs, he took Dinocrates with 
into Egypt, and ence him in marking out and buildin - 
the city of Alexandria. He was alfo engaged by the Ephe- 
fians to ee re-building of the temple of D:ana. 
(See Diana.) great defign which hiftory afcribes 
to him was that ee a temple to Arfinoe, queen of 
Prolemy Philadelphus, at Alexandria, having a dome above 
,on whi as to be inc: a » in order to keep 
fufpended in the air an iron ftatue of that a bear 
approved the defign, and gave orders fo t 
rits ex bu 
both the king and the archite¢t died before the prepa could 
be accompiifhed. 
DINOGETIA, in Ancient Geography, a town ia Lower 
Meefia, called Dirigathia, Demigutia. and Dinog 
DINOSTRATES, in Biography, a famous aeons ti. 
gian of the Platonic ichool, the brother of Mencchmus, and 
DIO 
st of oa ree the fteps of his brother, who 
amplified theory of the conic feftions, Dinoftrates is 
fa id . jas made oe adres difcoveries; but he ts 
particularly ditingsitie as the inventor of the guadratrix, 
which fee. Mont a deeee: obferves (Hil. Mathem. 
f I wa, an ingenious 
hilofopher and geometer, contemporary with Socratee 
DINSLAKEN, in Geography, a town of Germany, int 
the circle of Weftphalia, and duchy of Cleves ; 23 miles S.E, 
eves. 
oa in Ancient Geography, a port of Afia Minor, is 
cla. 
INUS, in Medicine, accor ue to fome, is the name ofa 
difeafe, elas more ufually verti 
DINWIDDIE, in Geoora " 
Virginia, S. of Appamatox river, w 
Chetterfield, It is about 30 mile 
its chief town is Peterfburg. 
bitants, and 6866 flaves, 
DIO, in Biagrapiys a Ripe: Stoic, who lived in the 
time of Ner ro, was a native of Prufa, in Bithy nia, and deno} 
minated, on account of i elequence, Chryfoftom. Under 
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Nero and Vefpafian he maintained the profeffion of a = 
phift ; and ee aaa in a deciamatory and Ix 
nant ftyle, againft th 
Ne ene aa and arena 
eae ei which cee him ome, an ian 
draw to Egypt. He then affomed the unde Sto 
ae a a ; embellifhing, however, his ohilotoplical a iL 
courfes, that treated oF moral topics, with the graces of 
eloquence, As his character corref{ponded to his principles 
.of virtue, he was a bold cenfor of vice, and {pared no indivi~ 
dual on account of his rank, By his freedom of fpeech he 
aia ee and being aie to become a velun. 
tary ex hra elived in great poverty, and fupported 
hi Ee or private Chae After the death of this emperor, 
he returned to Rome, and for fome time remained concealed 3 
but aie he found the foldicrs inclined to fedition, he 
brought to their recolle€tion Dio the orator and philofopher, 
by haranguing them in a ftrain of manly eloquence, a 
foon fubdued the tumult. He was adroitted into the cons 
fidence of Nerva and Trejan, and diftirgutfhed by the pene 
with tokens of favour. He lived to old age, but the time 
fhis death canrot be afcertained. His * Orations’’ are 
ftill extant, from which we may infer that he was 2 man o 
found judgment and lively fancy, and that he blended in 
his nee the qualities ee and {weetnefs, Brucker’s 
Hift. Phil. by Enfield, vo 
DIOCESAREA, in oe Geography, atown of Afia, 
placed by Piiny and Ptolemy in a country of Cappadocia, 
= lo, a town of Afia Minor fituated on the river Calys 
cadnus in the wettern part of Cilicia. Under the Philips, 
it was fignalzed by _ Cos of metropolis, See SE H 
DIOCALLIA. fany, a name by w 
and fome other grin fge calied ae common {weet — 
momile. 
ESE, or Diocess, the circuit, or extent, of ‘ie 
jurifdiétion of a bifhop. Sce Bis 
The word is formed from the Greck Sioxucss, government, 
adnate, formed of = which the ancient gloflaries 
ind op Srosxncis TNS @FOAEWC, 
ce admin ee or wal ofac 
alfo uled, in Ancient Sian. &c, for the 
perce a a r Gieuopelt an: See PROVINCE and Metro- 
OLS. 
eefis, Asoixeoicy was ori iginally a civil government, or 
preleeure: competes of divers provinces, -" 
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