ae 
fopher of ie Tonic fect, ounied dione the rath Oly Ley 
or 50 i C. Having ftudied under Anaximenes, be 
fuccecded Anaxagoras at Athens, wher taught philoto-, 
Either bis doctrines were unpopular, or his fuccefs erated 
jealou fy, and he was obliged to leave the city at the peril 
ol his life; and from this period nothing more Js recorded 
f him. Little is known the peculiarity of his fenti- 
e appears to have Ae that the air poffeiled a 
n Lis the i t 
€ pow of rare fa ction a 
tion; and that the centre at ihe earth, oe is ison 
is in the centre of the whole. Tioreri. Brucker by nian 
DIOGENIS Promonrorium, in Ancient Geography, 
mentory ef Ethiopia, a the Arabic guif. Prol. 
DIOGNETUS, in Biography, a philofopher, who 
flourifhed in the reign of the emperor Ma Aurelis, 
and who was one of the preceptors of that prin who 
he was inflrua@ed in philofophy, and other peace of im- 
portast knowledge. He is mentioned with great refpect 
by Juttin, in ae oS publithed by ae Stephens 
By Lardner, 
ete has bee 
refpe&ted by his sear tat as well as 8 greatly beloved 
by his pupil, pint ‘Aureliu 
DI > FLORES, orcas flowers, in Bota tany, have 
flamens in one ear 1, and piftils in vate on feparate 
plants of the fame fpecies. Sometimes this is accompanied 
with no difference in the other parts of fuch flowers, as the 
fame natural Saag . happens 1 a 
tica, Rumen, &c. hey vas more frequently meet in flow- 
© partly monoecious or dio- 
umerous grafles, re- 
f 
of their flowers. This approved by all (ine 
botanifts who have fabfequently confidered _ 
acceffory part ria, and 
fome others, efpecially when there is moreover a differen 
of inflorefcence, as in Quercus, Corylus, Humulus, &c. 
e more natural, conftant, or Sean than 
It is far otherwile when the male and 
female flowers are fo much alike, that there are nee eer of 
ae part in the contrary flower, us, Rhodiola is merely 
Sedum, with ineffeétual ee on one plant, and abortive 
piftl on another. See Dicri 
s5.W.o 
, INSULA, in Ancient the a er of 
the Adriatic fea, "according to to Strabo, Ptolemy, liny. 
They are now the iflands of ** Tremiti.”? One bie iflands 
was called Zeutria, and the other Diomedea and Tri 
hey had to the sae that part of Italy in which was 
ficuated mount Gar 
Eo lahat a » Oiolie, a genus of the aquatic or 
e kind, the albatrofs o Engl ih navigators. ‘Thefe 
birds have the bill raight, with the upper mandible hooked 
i tee ; 16 mile 
. DION 
: fl 
-WAR, or Dracovany in Geography, a town of 
f Efzek. 
us. by m 
DIO 
at the point, and the lower truncated; the noftrils oval,” 
wide, prominent, and lateral; tongue very fmall; and feet 
fe oe. all placed forwar d. 
Species, 
Exurans. White, back and wings lineated with white ; 
biil pale ree legs flefh colour; quill-feathers black; ta:l 
rounde ad colour. Gmel. aes 5 ae ON ‘co 
Plautus aibatru, Daa in. —Tchaiki, ae ae an of war 
bird, ae 
Thi 
ten feet. 0 m 
expanding to ‘the breadth of 
eleven feet {even inches, is eed in Parkinfon’s voyage, 
another of twelve feet in the Bankfian MS. One in the 
Leverian colle&tion is faid to have meafured thirteen feet ; 
ray credit Ives, an albatrofs of this kind was thot 
ar as the p 
mouth, and in this fituation are knocked down themfelves by 
i When caught, they defend themfelves ftoutly 
trofs Poiat from this circumtta ance. ‘The neft is made on 
the ground with earth, its fhape is round, ftands about a 
cot in height, and is indented at the top; The egg is’ 
larger than ie t of a goofe, of a white colour, witha few 
dull {pots at ig broadett end.; thele eggs are etteemed good 
for eating, but poffefs this remarkable peculiarity, that the. 
white _ ee hard Py boilin 
heir eggs are taken out. But th 
arifes from the perfecution | of — cae 
eft, carts up 
to prevent which, the latter is obliged to fettle on the waters 
Thefe sae are often taken by the natives . Kamtfchatka, 
ean baited with a they are caught 
chiefly for. site fale “ their wears a particular part of 
which is blown up as a bladder, and ferves as floats to buoy 
up their nets in Efhing. e bon ra 
ipes, needle cafes, and other ufeful things; the flefh is not 
in much requeft, being hard and unfavoury. Hawkefworth, 
4Qz howeve 
