D O L D O L 
DO'KOWICHE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Belcz : twenty-eight miles north-weft of Belcz. 
DOL, a town of France, and principal place of a dif- 
trift, in the department of the llle and Vilaine, fituated 
in a m'arfhy country, about a league from the fea ; be¬ 
fore the revolution, the fee of a bifliop, fuffragan of 
Tours: the air is unhealthy, and the town thinly inha¬ 
bited ; it.contains about 1200 houfes : fix pofts north of 
Rennes, and twenty-feven weft of Paris. Lat. 48. 33. N. 
Ion. 15. 54. E. Ferro. 
DOLABEL'LA (P. Corn.), a Roman, who married 
the daughter of Cicero. During the civil wars he warmly 
efpoufed the intereft of Julius Caefar, whom he accom¬ 
panied at the famous battles at Pharfalia, Africa, and 
Munda. He was made conful by his patron, though 
Marc Antony, his colleague, oppofed it. After the death 
of Julius Caefar, lie received the government of Syria as 
his province. Cafiius oppofed his views, and Dolabella, 
for violence, and for the aflafiination of Trebonius, one 
of Csefar’s murderers, was declared an enemy to the re¬ 
public of Rome. He was befieged by Cafiius in Laodi- 
cea; and, when he faw that all was loft, he killed him- 
felf in the twenty-feventh year of his age. He was of a 
fmall ftature, which gave occafion to his father-in-law to 
aflc him, “ Who had tied him fo cleverly to his fword ?” 
The family of the Dolabellae diftinguifhed themfelves at 
Rome, and one of them, L. Corn, conquered Lufitania, 
before Chrift 69 years. 
DOLALYC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Novogrodek: twelve miles north-north-eaft of 
Novogrodek. 
DO'LAN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Koni- 
gingratz : four miles weft of Gitfchin. 
DO'LANOVA, a river of Ruffian Siberia, which runs 
into the Oka : twelve miles fouth of Bratfkoi. 
DOL'CE (Carlino), an admired painter, born at Flo¬ 
rence-in 1616, and itudied under Vignali. He diftin¬ 
guifhed himfelf by his execution as early as his eleventh 
year. The ftile of painting which he cultivated was the 
foft, tender, and highly-finifhed, in which laft quality he 
equalled the mailers of the Dutch and Flemilh fchool. 
His touch was extremely neat, his colouring tranfparent, 
his management of the chiaro-fCuro very mafterly, fo that 
his figures have a wonderful delicacy and relief. He is 
charged with the uncommon fault of bellowing too much 
labour on his pictures ; and his carnations are laid to have 
the appearance of ivory more than of flefli. He chiefly 
painted divine fubjefts, to which he fometimes gave a 
moll celeftial air and beauty. His pieces are few', and 
are found in particular collections. It is faid, that he 
was fo chagrined on comparing his own (low manner of 
working with the rapidity of Luca Giordano, that it 
caufed his death, which, however, did not take place till 
his leventieth year, in 1686. 
DOL'CE (Ludovico), a very copious Italian writer, 
born at Venice in 1508. He was an hiltorian, orator, poet, 
grammarian, philofopher, editor, tranllator, compiler, and 
commentator. He wrote in a pure, ealy, and elegant, ftile, 
and poftefled equal facility in verfe and profe. He was 
a great tranflator from the ancients, and publifhed ver- 
fions of Horace’s Satires and Epillles, Ovid’s Metamor- 
phofes, parts of Catullus, the tragedies of Seneca, fome 
of thole of Euripides, feveral pieces of Cicero, Pliny’s 
Letters, &c. He likewife compofed fome tragedies, of 
which his Marianna was adted with great applaufe be¬ 
fore a noble audience, in the palace of Sebaftian Erizzo ; 
and was afterwards to have been reprefented in that of 
the duke of Ferrara, but the concourle was fo great as 
to prevent the afting. His heroic poems, in ottava rima , 
inti tied V Achille e I’Enea, are a lingular work, confiding, 
in great part, of tranflations from the Iliad and Eneid, 
with additions and retrenchments according to his fancy, 
{o as to be neither two tranflations, nor two new poems. 
His dialogue on painting, intitled VAretino, 1557, Svo. 
is confiderably efteemed. Of his biographical works the 
VoL. VI. No. 326. 
principal is, A Life of the emperor Charles V. 1561, 4(0. 
Dolce died about 1568. 
DOL'CE AQJJA, a town of Piedmont, in the county 
of Nice, fituated on the Navia, the capital of a marqui- 
fate, defended with a ftrong caftle and fortrefs. The 
land produces excellent wine, figs, almonds, filberts, ap¬ 
ples, citrons, lemons, melons, legumes of all forts, and 
excellent oil : fixteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Nice, and 
three and a half north-eaft of Vintimiglia. 
DOLE, a town of France, and principal place of a dif- 
trift, in the department of the Jura, fituated on the north 
fide of the Doubs, containing between 9000 and 10,000 
inhabitants. It was once a ftrong place, but the fonifi- 
cations were deftroved by Louis XIV. twenty-five miles 
north of Lons le Saunier, and twenty-three weft-fouth- 
weft of Befanyon. 
DOLE,y. [fromdra/; baelan, Sax.] The aft of diftri- 
bution or dealing.—The perfonal fruition in any man 
cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a cuftody of 
them, or a power of dole and donative of them, or a fame 
of them, but no folid life to the owner. Bacon. 
At her general dole , 
Each receives his ancient foul. Cleaveland. 
Any thing dealt out or diftributed : 
Let 11s, that are unhurt and whole. 
Fall on, and happy man be’s dole. Hudibras < 
Provifions or money diftributed in charity : 
They had fuch firm dependence on the day. 
That need grew pamper’d, and forgot to pray ; 
So fure the dole , lb ready at their call, 
They ftood prepar’d to lee the manna fall. Drydcn. 
Blows dealt out : 
What if his eye-fight, for to Tfrael’s God 
Nothing is hard, by miracle reftor’d, 
He now be dealing dole among his foes, 
And over heaps of llaughter’d walk his way >. Milton. 
[From dolor.'] Grief; forrow ; mifery, Obfolcte. —Yonder 
they lie ; the poor old man, their father, making fuch 
pitiful dole over them, that all beholders take his part 
with weeping. Shakfpeare. 
To DOLE, v. a. To deal ; to diftribute. 
DOLE, /I Void fpace left in tillage. 
DOLE-FISH, f. Pi 111 which the fifhermen in the North 
Seas ufually receive for their allowance. 
DOLF. -ME'ADOW, f. One wherein divers perfons 
have a (hare. 
DO'LEFUL, adj. Sorrowful; difma- 1 ; exprelfing grief; 
querulous: 
Juft then the hero call a doleful cry, 
And in thofe ardent flames began to fry : 
The blind contagion rag’d within his veins. Dryden. 
Melancholy; afflifted; feeling grief; forrowful: 
How oft my doleful fire cry’d to me, Tarry, fon, 
When firft he fpy’d my love. Sidney. 
Difmal ; imprefling forrow ; dolorific.—It watereth the 
heart to tire end it may fructify; maketh the virtuous, 
in trouble, full of magnanimity and courage ; ferveth as 
a moft approved remedy againft all doleful and heavy ac¬ 
cidents, which befal men in this prefent life. Hooker. 
Happy the mortal man, who now at laft 
Has through this doleful vale of mis’ry paft ; 
Who to his deftin’d ftage has carried on 
The tedious load, and laid his burden doivn. Prior. 
DO'LEFULLY, adv. In a doleful manner; forrow- 
fully; difmally; queruloufly. 
DO'LEFULNESSjy. Sorrow; melancholy. Queru- 
loufnefs. Difmalnefs. 
DO'LESOME, adj. Melancholy; gloomy; difmal; 
forrowful; doleful: 
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