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dences in different parts of his antiquities, that they were 
high in the mythic age: and informs us of one curious 
particular, that all the ancient hymns of Greece, in every 
province, were in the dialect of this people. From this 
it would appear, in oppcfition to this learned antiquary, 
that they were as ancient as any branch of their family ; 
that their language was the true Hellenic; and that it 
was cnce univerfally fpoken. Their hiftory is not to be 
confined to Greece; for they were to be found in Phe- 
nicia, Caria, Crete, and. Etruria. They forced them- 
Iclves into Laconia and Meffenia ; in the latter of which 
provinces the Dorian language was retained in the greateft 
purity : and from their hiftory are to be obtained more 
ancient terms than can be elfewhere collected. We learn 
from aimed every writer upon the fubjeCt, that the Do¬ 
rians, like their brethren the lonim, were not the fir ft 
occupiers of Greece. They were colonies from Egypt: 
and Herodotus fpeaks of all the heads and leaders of this 
people as coming dircCtly from thence. He" takes his 
epochafrom the fuppofed arrival of Perfeus and Danae ; 
and fays, that all the principal perfons of the Dorian fa¬ 
mily upwards, were in a direCt line from Egypt. But it 
was not Perfeus, nor Ion, nor Dorns, who came into 
Greece ; but a race of people tliled Ionians, Dorians, and 
Perefians. Thefe were the AiyvTnioi tOcvyuveec ; who went 
originally from Babylonia and Chaldea into Egypt, which 
countries in aftertimes were included under the general 
name of AfTyria. 
DO'RIC, adj. in architecture, the fecond of the five 
orders. For the defeription and figure, fee Architec¬ 
ture, vol. ii. p. 104. 
DO'RIGNY (Louis), a French painter of eminence, 
born at Paris in 1654, the fon of Michael Dorigny, a 
painter and engraver of merit. He began at an early age 
to praCtife defign under his father; and after his death 
entered in the fchool of Le Brim. At the age of feven- 
teen he contended for the prizes at the academy ; and 
obtaining only the fecond when he thought he deferved 
the firft, he quitted the academy. He at length fettled 
at Verona, occafionally vifiting the other towns of Italy 
as profeffional occupations Called him. In 1711 prince 
Eugene fent for him to Vienna, and employed him above 
a year. Dorigny poflefled great facility of compofition, 
and the -art of well managing large fubjeCts. His pencil 
was animated, his colouring lively, his manner firm and 
correCt, his dile heroical and fublime, but he was fome- 
wliat deficient in grace and dignity. He was a mailer in 
frefco, of which he gave feverai fpecimens. The mod 
confiderable of thefe is in the dome of the great church 
at Trent. Dorigni died at Verona in 1742, aged eighty- 
eight. 
DO'RIGNY (Nicolas), younger brother of the pre¬ 
ceding, attained great eminence as an engraver. He re¬ 
dded twenty-eight years in Italy, where he publifiied 
prints from the works of the principal painters. He came 
to England, and engraved the famous cartoons at Hamp- 
ton-Court, for which he was knighted by George I. He 
was a member of the French academy of painting, and 
died at Paris in 1746, in his ninetieth year. 
DO'RING, or Daring, f. A term tiled to exprefs a me¬ 
thod of taking larks, by means of a clap-net and looking- 
glafs. See the article Bird-catching, vol. iii. p. 50. 
DO'RINGSTADT, or Durinstatt, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Franconia, and bilhopric of Bam¬ 
berg : fourteen miles north of Bamberg. 
DO'RINK, or Doring, (Matthias), a learned German 
monk of the Fran.cifcan order, born at Kiritz in 1415. 
He was profoundly flcilled in the facred feriptures, in phi- 
lofophy, and in fcholadic theology. In 1445 he was cliofen 
to fill the divinity chair in the univerfity of Magdeburg, 
and difeharged the duties of his province with eminent 
reputation. Paul de Burgos having publifiied a variety 
of driftures againd the Poftilles, or fhort Commentaries 
on the Scriptures, of Nicolas de Lyra, Dorink undertook 
their defence and farther illuftration. The pieces which 
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lie wrote on thefe. fubjefts were collected together, and 
inferted in an edition comprehending the works of both 
thofe authors, which was publifiied at Paris, in 1590, in 
6 vols. folio. Since that time they have .undergone va¬ 
rious impreffions. Dorink is alfo generally fuppofed to 
have been the author of The Chronicle of Nuremberg, ' 
continued to the year 1493, which was publifiied anony- 
moufiy. 
DO'RION, anciently a town of Theffaly, where Tha- 
myras, the mulician, challenged the Mufes to a trial of 
(kill. Propertius. 
DO'RIS, in ancient geography, a country of Greece, 
between Ph'dcis, The'llaly, and Acarrianiji. It received its 
name from Dorus the fon of Deucalion, who made a fet- 
tlement there. It was called Tetrapolis, from pie four 
cities of Pindus or Dryopis, Erineum, Cytiniwm, and 
Bcrium, which it contained. To thefe four fome add 
Lilaeum and Carphia, and therefore call it Hexapolis. 
The name @f Doris has been common to many parts of 
Greece. The Dorians, in the age of Deucalion, inha¬ 
bited Phthiotis, which they exchanged for Hiftiteotis, in 
the age of Dorus. From thence they were driven by the 
Cadmeans, and came to fettle near the town of Pindus. 
From thence they pafied into Dryopis, and afterwards 
into Peloponnefus. Hercules having rfteftablifticd ^Egi- 
mius king of Phthiotis or Deris, who had been driven 
from his country by the Lapithae, the. grateful king ap¬ 
pointed Hyllus, the fon of his patron, to be his fucceffor, 
and the Heraclidae marched from that part of the coun¬ 
try to go to recover Peloponnefus. The Dorians fent 
many colonies into different places, which bore the fame 
name as their native country. The mod famous of thefe 
is Doris in Afia Minor, of which Halicarnaffus was once 
the capital. This part of Afia Minor was called Hexa¬ 
polis, and afterwards Pentapolis after the exclufion of 
Halicarnafius. Strabo. 
DO'RIS, in mythology, a goddefs of the fea, daughter 
of Oceanus and Tethys. She married her brother Ne- 
reus, by whom file had fifty daughters called Nereides. 
Her name is often ufea to exprefs the fea itfelf. Hejiod. 
DO'RIS, f. [fo called from the fea-goddefs of that 
name.] Itr zoology, a genus belonging to the order of 
molufea ; the charafters of which are as follow : body 
creeping, oblong, and flat beneath : mouth placed below 
on the fore-part; vent behind on the back-part, furround- 
ed with a radiated fringe : tentacula,. or feelers, from two 
to four, feated on the upper part of the body in front, and 
retraftile at pleafure within their proper receptacles- 
Twenty-four fpecies have been afeertained, inhabitants 
of the Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian, and Euro¬ 
pean feas. Three fpecies are found on the coads of Eng¬ 
land, viz. the argo, verrucofa, and bilamellata. The mod 
beautiful is the argo, commonly called the fea lemon-, a fi¬ 
gure of which is given in the engraving. It varies much 
in (ize and colour; fome being found of a yellow', more 
or lefs deep; others of a rich citron, or bright orange ; 
and others again of a dull red, or/carlet. In all thefe 
varieties the body is convex, marked with numerous 
fpots or punctures, and the vent furrounded with elegant 
ramifications. 
DOR'KIAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natella: forty-four miles weft of Sinope. 
DOR'KING. See Darking. 
DORKO W'K A, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Bfaclaw : forty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Braclaw. 
DOR'LACH, a tovvnfliip of the American States, in 
Otfego county. New York. By the ftate cenfus of 1796, 
433 of its inhabitants are eleftors. 
DOR'MANS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Epernay, on the Marne : four leagues weft of Epernay, 
and fix fouth-weft of Reims. 
DOR'MANT, adj. [Fr.] Sleeping.—With this radius 
he is faid to ftrike and kill his prey, for which he lies, 
as it were, dormant. till it fwims within his reach. Grew. 
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