D190 
Atinca. Oblong ; Tpines on the body round. Bloch. &c, 
A fpecies much refernbling the former, but of a more 
lengthened form; its general colour is grey, deeper on the 
hack, and tinged _ a cait of pink beneath. The whole 
ody is marked, as well as the fins, with numerous round 
black {pots, as in, the ae fpecies. In its manners of life, 
it refembles the porcupine ows to ly more 
than halfits length: ‘The fpecies is confidered as poifonous, 
unlefs cleaned with the greatett d, according t , 
if the leaft = ty of the gall fhould happen to fall on, and 
mix with the flefh, it produces the moft violent fymptoms ; 
the tongue becomes immoveable, the limbs {tiffen, and a cold 
{weat en{ues, followed by certain death, unlefs the porfon be 
expelled by immediate medical aid. This fifh is a native of 
the sae feas round the Cape of Good Hope. 
BICULARIS. ody round and covered with fhort 
fins Bloch. L’orbe "Her; on. Diodon Atinga var B, 
This ae inhabits | fea of heya - Cape of Good 
Hope, and th olucca ifles ; e length of nine 
or ten aon and ae on thells ey a nese animals. Tn 
point of fhape this {pecies is almoft fpberical; the {pines 
itrong, and fhort, with the bafes broad, and fomewhat reti- 
culating the fin; the colour is rufous — beneath paler. 
This, li S the former, is efteemed poifo 
LUMIERI, Elongated, blueifh, wih white {pots, and 
eoree a Diodon Plumieri, Ce epede, 
Re fembles Ane oblong diodon, but is lon ti 
and has a confiderable contraction behind the ee ; the gee 
neral colour is bluetih, with numerous {mall round white {pots. 
This {pecies is a native of the American feas in warm lati- 
tudes, where it was difcovered by raed Plumier. 
Litrvurosus. Brownihh, beneath whitifh, and marked on 
the upper part with black paces Shaw. Dindon tacheté, 
Cepede. 
This is a native of the Indian feas, and is defcribed by 
Commerfon. Its fhape is rather globular, the colour brown 
above, beneath whitifh, with a large lunate ea fpot on the 
nape, the horns of which point towards the e On each 
1 patch, nae 
ciseoat marked by a dufy cloud, and on the back a round 
{pot encircling the dorfal fin; fpines white with brown tips, 
and confiderably longer on a back than towards the abdo- 
men. il the fins are green 
The diodon mola o Gmelin is referred to the tetrodon 
genus. 
DIO ah cient Geography, an ifland of 
rabic gulf, near Egypt, according to 
ye 
DIODORIDA, a town of Afia, in Mefopotamia. 
DIODORUS, in Biography, a difciple of the Megaric 
{chool, was a native of Caria, and a great adept in that kind 
of verbal combat which prevailed among perfons of his fe@. 
It is faid that a queftion was propofed to him 1 
fence of Ptolemy Soter, by Stilpo, one of his fraternity, 
hich he required time to an{wer ; this acc 
neverthelefs, died of vexation. He is the reputed author of 
the famous argument or fophifm againft motion: if any 
7 body be moved, it is moved either in the place ae it is, 
orina pla ace naar ¥ is ir for 
where it is not; 
on. Diodorus was cc pcompeneat or the inven 
moti 
tion of this fophifm. Having diflocated his fhoulder, the 
DIO 
furgeon, who was fent for, kept him for fome time in torture, 
whilft he proved, from his own mode of reaforing, that the 
bone could not have moved out net its place. He has been 
improperly reckoned among the atomic philofophers. 
Brucker’s a Phil, by Enf. vol. i 
a Peripatetic Scien with whom the 
sneer fucceffion of the Peripatetic fchool terminated. 
n Siculus, an ancient hiftorian, who 
: the een of Julius and gulty 
to the compotion “of hiftor 
n his ftudies and enquiries, travelling to the very places in 
Euro e€ and Afia, which had been the theatre of important 
tranfactions, and inveftigating the fats with the greateit care 
and attention. A fmall part of his labours has come down 
His great work was entitled BsSaso$nun fso- 
i on Unis 
flyle is commended by Photius, as being-that kind of middle 
diGion which-is fuitable . eee a sb have not 
pology- 
eae : regret the lofs of his la 
of this work are thofe by See pliatinn, Par. 
cae Hanau, 1604; and of Wellelingive in two ole 
fol. Amfterd. 1746. 
Diovorvs, defcended from a good family, was probably 
born at Antioch, in which city he long refided, and was ore 
dained bifhop of ie oo in Cilicia, mak the year 378. 
ilft s prefbyter, be had 
ee ng ee tioch, w 
and the principles of religion. 
ae were Maximus, bifhop of Sileucia, in Tfauria, T 
dore, bifhop of Mopfueftia, in Cilicia, and John Chryfoftom, 
bifhop of pase yd a atter of whom calls him, in 
one of his = his er. -He was a firm adherent to 
the orthodox fader the perfecutions of the Arians, 
and conduéted himfelf with fo much prudence, that -he feems 
to have enjoyed a peaceable epifcopate till his death. In 
the firft council of oe he was saa in fuch re- 
and principally commentaries on almoft all the books of hs 
d Teflament, and fome of the New, which were deftroyed, 
as fome fay, by the Arians, and, according to others, by the 
Athanafians. Some fragments ftill fia which are found 
in the Catena Patrum Grecerum. - e lofs of his aOrne 
i difplayed great 
nded by Theodoret, Bafil, and sie 
fathers of the niece Suid as has given a catalogue of his 
works, extraGted from a = of Theodo ore, _ Cave’s 
H. L. vol. i. ad Sec n. Lardner’s Cred. vol. i 
DIODURUM, in Arce Geography; a place of Gaul, 
fituated, according to the Itiner ary oO ntonine, between 
Durocaffes (Dreu an foieaed acd fuppofed by D’An- 
ville to be Jouare, ne hartrain. 
DIOECESIS, pene among the Romans, a aaa 
