. e midst ofmarshes.—4. (Liidd, Ltjdcl), the name given bythe Greek and Roman writers to the Lydda ofthe Scriptures.—5. A town in Pontus, originallycalled Cabuia. Diovis. [Jupitek.] Diphilus (Ai<piAoi), one of the principal Athe-nian comic poets of the New Comedy and a con-temporary of Menander and Philemon, was anative of Sinope. He is said to have exhibited100 plays. Though, in point of time, Diphilusbelonged to the New Comedy, his poetry seemsto have had more of the character of the is shown, among other indications
. e midst ofmarshes.—4. (Liidd, Ltjdcl), the name given bythe Greek and Roman writers to the Lydda ofthe Scriptures.—5. A town in Pontus, originallycalled Cabuia. Diovis. [Jupitek.] Diphilus (Ai<piAoi), one of the principal Athe-nian comic poets of the New Comedy and a con-temporary of Menander and Philemon, was anative of Sinope. He is said to have exhibited100 plays. Though, in point of time, Diphilusbelonged to the New Comedy, his poetry seemsto have had more of the character of the is shown, among other indications, by thefrequency with which he chose mythological 1subjects for his plays, and by his bringingon the stage the poets Archilochus, Hipponax,and Sappho. The Roman comic poets bor- !rowed largely from Diphilus. The Cusina of ,Plautus is a translation of his K\r)povu( 2vvairo0vii<TKovT(S was translated by Plau-tus in the lost play of the Commorient™, andwas partly followed by Terence in his lindens of Plautus is also a translation of. Dirco. by Apollonius and Tauriscus The Famese Bull, which shows Zethus andAmphion binding Dirce to the horns of thebull. Antiope appears in the background, andon the base are the hound of Zethus, the lyreof Amphion, and a figure representing MountCithaeron. Dirphys (Aipipvs : Delphi), a mountain inEuboea. Dis. [Pluto.] DIum (aiov : Aitvs, Aiixitttjs : Malalhria). important town in Macedonia on theTherraaic gulf, so called after a temple of were placed the equestrian statues byLysippus of the Macedonians who had fallen atthe battle of the Gramcus. (Strab. p. :!!i0 7H; Arrian, An. i. 10; Liv. xliv. 7.)— town in Chalcidice in Macedonia, on theBteymonio gulf.—3. A town in Euboea, not farfrom the promontory Cenaeum. Divlco, the leader of the Helvetians in thewar against L. Cassius in 107, was at thehead of the embassy sent to Julius Caesar,nearly fifty years later, 68, when he wasabout t
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