Dig 
planted io the ae eft-em by Heraclides, a Syracufan 
exile, and obliged to make his retreat to Leontium, The 
philofopher, burying in oDlivion the ee e had received, 
and anxious only for the welfare of the { rae, sae ed to 
make an attempt for its deliverance. Accordingly, he 
marched at the head of a body of troops, who eau their 
readinefs to follow him to death or victory, and found = 
city in the laft extremity of defolation and terror. Havir 
pardoned the machinations of Heraclides and his Sic enk” 
who furrendered ee into his hands, he geined pof- 
feffion of the citadel, ni it in prefence “of the ap- 
deta citizens e g2 ate ie was met by his fitter, 
leading his fon and his wife Aret Ga two former were 
embraced by him, while the cae ftood by un oan and 
diffolved in tears. At length his money A was a vake ened, 
and, embracing her, he i her with his fon to his houfe. 
Having eftablifhed the Syracufans in poffeffion of their 
pee he difmiffed his guards, and retired to the condition 
a private citizen. AAs foon as public tranquillity was re- 
fone. inteftine factions revived. Heracli 
foremo of 
his murderers, b<ing unprovided with weapons, cou 
difpatch him, till they were fupplied through a window with 
a dagger. The death of Dion happened about the year 354 
B.C. in the 55th year of his age. His fifter and wife, and 
a pofthumous infant of which his wife was delivered, were 
foon after put todeath, The Syracufans afterwards cherifh- 
ed his memory as their deliverer, and honoured him with a 
public monument. Plut. Vit. Dion. Rollin’s Anc. Hil. 
vol. iv. 
Dron 
thynia, and the fon o eee: who was prefect of Bithy- 
nia at the acceffion of Adrian. i 
e 
mperor Alexander Severus, A.D. 22 
ailciptine, when he commanded the Pannonian legions, ex- 
cited a tumult and a combination againft him, which endan- 
gered his life. But he retired from Rome, and paffed the 
greater period of his confulfhip in Campania. He after- 
wards returned to his native country, ‘and finifhed his days 
oo years of his life were devoted 
an oy in the Greek lan- 
trom the origin ae: t his own tim 
years were employe mae in colle ing materials, and coals more 
in digefting and ee them. ‘To this work, as 
forms us, he wag impelled by a vifion, which occurred to 
him the-night xe he had receive 
ich 
that 
cumftance leads us to conclude, that he was not only 
ftitious, but inclined to adulation ; and, indeed, his. kiln 
is evidently partial to Cefar and his party, whi it ey 
Cicero, Bratus, Seneca, and other patriots. ftyle, 
however, is clear and eafy, aud he has eed a varey 
of judicious rcfleGtions. OF the 80 books, the firit (54 an 
Casstus Cocce1anus, wasa native of Nice, in Bi- 
8 
. their pails three-lobed. 
DIO 
and part of the 35th are ee edi 25 aoe are on 
but the latter be x in an ab a fate; the daft 2 are alfo 
a We hav 
pey outs end of it 
in the a wa Severus, which was made by John Xiphilinus, 
nephew to the patriarch BEC ca itinople. Dion’s h'ftory,. 
notwithitanding it defects, i : pa admired, a a ada 8 
epitome is well cftzem tae pla ces we find fragm nts 
of Dion himfelf ; and the en often oot Dion in in 
his own words, Djion’s a a is fuppofed to have ies 
g pubhfhed foon after the year 2 Dion’s hiftory 
nave a fhort end defective aoe ‘of the fiege and pcre 
of Jerustem, which affords a teftimony to the ruin of the 
e city, and the co nqueft of Judea under Titus and’ 
We have, l:kewife, in the hftor 
alg ae its 
nc othe 
paflage in Dion’s hiftory confirms the fuppotton af the 
feverity of Domitian’s aaa though it was not long, 
s us to conclude, that the oo did not 
ceafe till after the sbegioing of Nerva’s reign. We have 
alfo an account of the fhower by which Mace Antoninus. 
and his army were fav oF in Germaay. The beft editions of 
Dion Caffius are thofe of Leunclavius, Hanau, fol. 1606, 
and of Reimarus, Hamburgh, 2 vols. fol. 1750. Crevier’s 
as - - vol. vill, Lardner’s Works, vol. viii. 
r Dium, in Ancient Geography, a promontory 
ea by Peoleny in ithe —e pe of the ifle of Crete. 
—Alfo, of Gre in —Alfo, a town of 
the Dee hewesn Pella and Gadara ; 
town placed by Strabo and Herodot 
town of Ce. in Macedonia, 
Olympus, and near it, where the 
Alfo, a town of Iraly.—Alfo, a An of Afia, 
Alfo, a town of Thrace, near mount Ath perms 
of Afia, in Coelofyria. , Steph. Byz. fays that it w 
Pella, aid built by Alexander. Ptolemy diitinguifhes Pella 
rom 
DIONEA, i in Botany, (a name of Venus, from her mo- 
ther Dione. ionee matri, Divifque ferebam,” {ays 
19. In its botanical applica- 
ic ’ ie and Ei were the authors, it may be: 
s alluding to the elegance and delicacy of the 
8 ohh rival thofe of Linear 8 favourite Trientalis.) 
ly-t . 
rap. Ellis in A&t. Nov. Upfal. v. 1. 98. t. 8 
Ejnfd. Monogr. 38. t. 1. Linn. oes 2. 1g. Schreb 
283. Wilid. Sp. Pl. v. os Di&..v. 2 
es 431. 
Gen. Ch. 
fpreading, permanent ce 
concave, longer than the calyx, with numerous aay ribs 
in wer lower part. Stam. Filaments ten, equa!,-aw]-thaped, - 
fpreading, fhorter than the ie s; anthers roundifh, {mail, 
Germen fuperior, roundifh, 
depreffed, furrowed 5. ftyle pears fhaped, fhorter than the 
filaments ; ftigma deprefled, fringed. "Perle. Capfule of one 
cell, Girrowed. Seeds numerous, minute, nearly ovate, affix-- 
ed to the ** bottom of the capfule.” 
Eff alyx of five leaves. Petais equal, Cap- 
fule fuperior, furrowed, of one cel!.. Seeds | ene afixed 
to the bafe of the captule, Stigma fringed. 
The 
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