Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . e length of two feetsix inches. dividual (female) and the spermatozoidby another (male). It is opposed tomonoecious. DIOGENES (di-oje-nez), a celebratedGreek cynic; was a native of Sinope, inPontus, where he was born 413 B. CHe was banished from his country forcoining false money, and repaired toAthens, where he studied philosophyunder Antisthenes. He walked aboutthe streets with a tub on his head, inwhich it is said he lodged at night. Beingon a voyage, he was taken by pir
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . e length of two feetsix inches. dividual (female) and the spermatozoidby another (male). It is opposed tomonoecious. DIOGENES (di-oje-nez), a celebratedGreek cynic; was a native of Sinope, inPontus, where he was born 413 B. CHe was banished from his country forcoining false money, and repaired toAthens, where he studied philosophyunder Antisthenes. He walked aboutthe streets with a tub on his head, inwhich it is said he lodged at night. Beingon a voyage, he was taken by piratesand sold into slavery at Corinth, wherehe became tutor to the sons of a richcitizen, but died in the greatest misery,324 B. C. The inhabitants of Sinoperaised statues to his memory, and themarble figure of a dog was placed on ahigh column erected on his tomb. DIOMEDEA (after Diomedes, one ofthe Greek warriors before Troy), agenus of birds belonging to the Procel-laridse, or petrels. D. exulans is thealbatross. DIOMEDE ISLANDS, a group of threesmall islands in Berings Strait, and mid-way between Asia and ^^K ^^^tS.^7?^^ DINOTHERIUM DIODORUS SICTJLUS, a native ofAgyrium, in Sicily, who wrote a Uni-versal History in 40 books, of whichonly 15 books and a few fragments re-main. He flourished about B. C. 10. DICECIOUS (di-eshus), in botany, aterm applied to unisexual plants, suchas the willow and the hemp, in which thestaminiferous and pistilliferous flowersare on separate individuals. In zoology,a term applied to those animals in whichthe sexes are distinct; that is, those inVrhich the ovum is produced by one in- DIOMEDES (di-o-medez), in Greekmythology, (1) a king of the Bistones,who fed his horses on human flesh, andused to throw all strangers who enteredhis territories to those animals to bedevoured. He was killed by Hercules,who carried off the horses. (2) One ofthe heroes at the siege of Troy, the sonof Tydeus and Deipyle, and King ofArgos, one of the suitors of H
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