. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . philosopher, who, for his insolence, wasbanished bv the emperor Vespasian. Scncc. de Bene/.I. 6, c. 8 ; PhOost. de Fit. Apoll. 1. 4, c. 8. Demetrius, Cydonius, a learned Greek of Thcssalonica,wrote, among other things, 1. De Contemnenda Morte,Gr. et Lat. 8vo. Basil. 1553. 2. Irrisio PhilosophorumGentilium. 3. Vitae et Mortis Compendium, Gr. etLit. together with the
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . philosopher, who, for his insolence, wasbanished bv the emperor Vespasian. Scncc. de Bene/.I. 6, c. 8 ; PhOost. de Fit. Apoll. 1. 4, c. 8. Demetrius, Cydonius, a learned Greek of Thcssalonica,wrote, among other things, 1. De Contemnenda Morte,Gr. et Lat. 8vo. Basil. 1553. 2. Irrisio PhilosophorumGentilium. 3. Vitae et Mortis Compendium, Gr. etLit. together with the first treatise, 8vo. Basil. Hist. 1. 4. Demetrius, Pepagomenus, a physician to the emperorMichael Paleologus, about 1270, left a treatise, De Po-dagra, Gr. et Lat. 8vo. Paris, 1558. Demetrius, Chalcondylas, vide Chalcondylas. Demetrius (Numis.) several medals are extant bearing theinscription BA2IAEOS AHMHTPIOY, and a crowned headwith a bulls horn, after the manner of Bacchus, whichhave been ascribed to Demetrius Poliorcetes, but on doubtfulauthority. Others belong without doubt to the three kingsof Syria, whose effigies are given as in the subjoinedfigures; they are distinguished by the inscriptions, BAil-. AEUS AHMHTPIOY OIAOnATOPOS 2QTHP02-—BA-SIAEOS AHMHTPIOY OEOY NIKATOPOZ—BA2I- AEQ2 AIIMHITioi MAOMHTOP02 EYKPIT l( >1KAAAIMKCn . &c. VaiUant. Hist. ,? Froel. Nail. $c. DEMOCEDES (Hist.) A,//»»./,,>., a physician of Crotona,who, being carried prisoner to Persia, obtained great n po-tation at the court of Darius, by whom he was sent as ;1spy into Greece. He afterwards made his escape to hisnative place, and married the daughter of the famous Mil,,Herod. I. 8, &e /Elian. Far. Hist. 1. 8, c. 18. DEMOCHABJES [Hut.) an Athenian, sent with some otherson an embassy to Philip, king of Macedonia, who condui tedhimself with insolence towards the king, which Philiptreated with silent contempt. ; /Elian FarHisl. 1. 8. Democ hakes {Biog.) an orator
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