DIO 
Two varieties of ae ee cia ee are paeiebels in the 
Gmelinian Syftema, one of which is brown, with the upper 
part blackifh; the bill red, with the tip blackifh, down cine- 
reous, and whitifh towards the head. The other is whites 
the region of the fhoulders, wings: and tail, anya brown 5 
ead, and upper part of t <, deep ftraw colour 
the upper mandible white or * reddith, ie tome red, a a 
white keel, 
Deep chefnut, front, orbits, 
Jower quill- oie abdomen and legs white ; 
ous white. Pai medea {padicea, Gmel. 
Cook’s Voy 
This is ra ae than the ee rans doled more 
than three feet in length. Th , ofa 
fine deep chocolate, palett ell ae Ue tail is ie and 
rounded, and the legs blucifh white, with oie claws. This 
varies in having more or lefs white about the head, and in- 
habits the South feas. A kind of albatrofs, entirely of a 
grey brown colour, with-the bil and legs pale, is found in 
China, and has been eae as a varicty of this {pecies : 
its length is two inches and a 
HLORORHYNCHOS. White; bill black; keel . the 
upper mandible and bafe of the lower yellow ; body above 
a ck blue, beneath white. Gmel. Yellow nofed atbatrofi 
th. 
chin, pale 
bill ochrace- 
Chocolate abatrofi, 
Length about three feet and breadth feven, the bill 
black, with the u 
aie over the eye. The hind part of the neck is dufky, the 
Jower part white; aa {capulars, and wings 
black ; rump and u 
mi 
is obferved to fly about five or fix feet above the furface of 
Furieinosa. — head, bill, tail, ainitenhers and 
claws, footy brown ; area of the eyes white. Gmel. Sooty 
Forfes Albatrofs with a white eye- 
s Voy 
“Toba bits te feos Srithin the Antartic circle, i : aly the 
fize of a goofe, and meafures about three feetinlength. The 
yell 
tat 
plane is oe 3 the head ‘and tail inclining to black or 
foot colour ; for a {mall 1 fpace above, behind and beneath 
the eye, the feathers are white, but not on the fore part of 
it; the quills and tail are dark brown, nearly black ; the 
fhafts of both white, and the latter pointed; legs "pale. 
brownifh lead colour ; claws blac 
Obferved throughout the fouthern ocean within the An- 
tartic circle. 
DIOME 
EDES, in Biography, was fon of Tydeus, king of 
Etolia, and afterwards king of Argos himfelf. He Jed his 
roy in numbers {efficient to man eighty thips ; 
co arowen at the 
Trojan war, and mer b one of the moft dif- 
tinguifhed heroes of his Iliad. After the ae of 
Troy he returned to Argos, where he is {aid to have found 
his wife connected with an adulterer, and plotting with him 
DIO 
"Bice. 
EDES, in Geography, the name of an ifland near 
the omer of Siberia, on the N. E. point of the con- 
ease 
TEDIA, in - Geography, a town of Italy, in 
the Daunian diftri, m ned by Virgil. 
DI Ist pe an ifland of Italy, at the bottom 
of the gulf which lies to the eaft of Aquileia. It is now 
called Belforte. 
Diomenis Stabulum, a town of Thrace, which belonged 
to king Diomedes, called by Mela “ Diomedis Turris.” 
Avis, in Ornitholog , the name of a bird of 
ae web-footed kind, with a flender beak, hooked at the end, 
d with its hinder toe” not rule by the membrane that 
au the reft. It is of the fize of a common hen, but its 
neck and legs are ach Gree ; its colour isa dufky, and 
fomewhat greyifh aa and under the belly ee is more 
or lefa white ; its beak is of a fi a yel- 
lowifh colour, with a Ae k end. i : 
Diomedea, now called oe in the Adriatic es, and is 
{aid to be peculiar to that place. Se Wate 
ao in Biography, an afaon inhabitant of aS acu. 
, deriving an ample inheritance from his father, Hippa- 
rinus, became a — of Plato, invited by Dionyfius the 
Hide his court at Syracufe. The philofopher was 
highly pleafed ik his feholer, and {peaks 1 in high terms of 
attention an 
zie as well a 
which he und tyran 
conneéted with Dionyfius by having | married - ei ed 
; and he was alfo 
y him, fo as to be Sa aa in feveral im- 
At the acceffion of Dionyfius the 
Younger: 366, he maintained couaderble influence 
by virtue of his Gaaes and his wealth. At requ 
Plato was agzin invited to the Syracufan a 
order to countera& his authority, the eddies obiine the 
recal of Philiftus, a man notorious for his adherence to arbi- 
trary principles. This faction determined to fu arlnht the 
credit of Dion and his favourite philofopher; and availed 
themfelves of a real or {uppofititious letter, to fix upon him 
the charge of treafon. Dion, precluded from felf-defence, 
was tran{ported to Italy y; and from thence proceeded to 
Gree here as received with great honou 
Athens he attended the academy, and the Lacedemonians 
conferred upon him the freedom of their ftate. A 
Dionyfius became jealous of his popularity, ftopped his re- 
mittance, confifcated his eftates, and compelled his. wife, 
who had been left at Syracufe as an hoftage, to marry an- 
other perfon. Dion, juftly incenfed at this ufage, deter- 
mined to expel Dionyfius.- Plato refifted his intention ; 
but, encouraged by other friends, he affembled a body of 
oF poy with a {mall force, failed for Sicily, and landed 
t Minoa, a town belonging to the Carthaginians. Avail- 
Sie hinfel of ae abfence of Dionyfius upon an expedition 
y, he advanced to the cap‘ta 
ik 3 
h 
At fae Dionyfius arrived ; but 
and ineffe€tual propofals of accommodation, 
to make his efcape to Italy. Dion, poffetfing 
degree the aufterity and referve of -a Srilcasee ws me 
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