. 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 . s catDamasch, Dcmeschk, or Scham, which is the name theit bears at present. A farther account of this city mabe seen under Numisjnatics. Ecclesiastical Histori/ of Damascus. Damascus was a metropolitan see under the patriarch < Antioch, and is at present the place of residence for tl latter. Strab. 1. 16; Joseph. Ant. 1. 1, &c.; Mela, 1. 1, Plin. 1. 5 ; Ptol. 1.
. 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 . s catDamasch, Dcmeschk, or Scham, which is the name theit bears at present. A farther account of this city mabe seen under Numisjnatics. Ecclesiastical Histori/ of Damascus. Damascus was a metropolitan see under the patriarch < Antioch, and is at present the place of residence for tl latter. Strab. 1. 16; Joseph. Ant. 1. 1, &c.; Mela, 1. 1, Plin. 1. 5 ; Ptol. 1. 5, c. 15 ; Mir. Geog. Eccles. Damascus (Kumis.) this town is distinguished on medals 1 some types peculiar to itself, as in fig. 1, which represen the town or its genius under the figure of a female with turreted head, lying on a mountain, to denote its situaaV at the foot of Mount Hermon ; before her stands Sileni with his bottle, who was much honoured by the Dama cenes; and underneath are five females with turreted heai sacrificing at an altar, intended to represent the princip cities of Ccelesyria : in fig. 2 is represented a temple Silenus, with the figure of that deity bearing his bottle < Fig. 2. Fig. his shoulder, and underneath an arch extending overfemale figure, to represent the river Amana, which flowthrough the city and divided into fountains marked by tinscription rilUAI; fig- 3 represents a hind sucklingchild, and is supposed to have an idlusion to the founderthe city, who is said to have been brought up by dana hind, which gave rise to his name Damascus. DAMASIPPUS (Hist.) a senator who accompanied Juwhen he entered Utica in triumph. Cms. dc Bell. Gull. 1. Damasippus, L. .Inn. Bin. a pnetor and partisan of Marinwho put to death several senators friendly to Syllas cau:,and was afterwards slain by order of the latter. Cic. ad Fa1. 9, ep. 21; Sallust. Cat. e. 51; Li v. Epist. 1. 1. 2. DAMASITHYMUS (Hist.) \apaeen at the siegeTroy. Dionys. Hal
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