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108 DOROTHEUS.
37; xx. 1; Fragm. Hfist. 68; Liv. xxvi. 24; Brandstiiter, Gesch. des Aetol. Landes, p. 342, &c.) [E. E.]
DO'RION (Aopupwv). 1. A critic and grammarian in the time of Hadrian. He lived at Sardis,
and was a friend of Dionysius of Miletus, the rhetorician. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. i. 22. ~ 4.)
2. A rhetorician referred to by the elder Seneca.
(Suas. 2, Controv. i. 8, iv. 24.)
3. A native probably of Egypt, is recorded by
Athenaeus, from whom alone our knowledge of
him is derived, as a musician, a wit, a bon vivant,
and the author of a treatise on his favourite delicacy-fish. His profession and his propensity are
together marked by the name Xo-raSouvcrs-1Ts, applied to him by the comic poet Mnesimachus, in
his play of" Philip." (Ap. Athen. viii. p. 338, b.;
Meineke, Fragm. Com. vol. iii. p. 578.) He is
mentioned too in a fragment of Machon, also preserved by Athenaeus (viii. p. 337, c.; Casaub. ad
loc.); and there is an anecdote of him at the court
of Nicocreon of Salamis (Athen. viii. p. 337, f.),
which shews that he did not lose anything for
want of asking. He was in favour also with Philip of Macedon, who had him in his retinue at
Chaeroneia, in B. c. 338. (Athen. iii. p. 118, b.,
vii. pp. 282, d., 287, c., 297, c., 300, f., 304, f.,
306, f., 309, f., 312, d., 315, b., 319, d., 320, d.,
322, f., 327, f., x. p. 435, c.) There was a Dorion
too, probably a different person, from whose work,
called rEwpyucov, a mythological account of the
origin of the word orvmc is quoted by Athenaeus
(iii. p. 78, a.). [E. E.]
DORIS (Awpis), a daughter of Oceanus and
Thetis, and the wife of her brother Nereus, by
whom she became the mother of the Nereides.
(Apollod. i. 2. ~ 2; Hesiod. Theog. 240, &c.;
Ov. Met. ii. 269:) The Latin poets sometimes
use the name of this marine divinity for the sea
itself. (Virg. Eclog. x. 5.) One of Doris's daughters, or the Nereides, likewise bore the name of
Doris. (Hom. II. xviii. 45.) [L. S.]
DORIS (Aw'pts), a Locrian, daughter of Xenetus, wife of the elder, and mother of the younger
Dionysius. (Diod. xiv. 44; Plut. Dion, 3.) She
died before her husband, who seems to have
lamented her loss in one of his tragedies. (Lucian.
adv. Indoct. 15.) [E. H. B.]
DORO'THEUS (Awpo'Oeos). A considerable
number of works are mentioned by ancient writers
as the productions of Dorotheus, without our being
able to determine whether they belong to one or
to different persons. The following, however,
must be distinguished:1. The author of a work on the history of ALEXANDER the Great, of which Athenaeus (vii. p.276)
quotes the sixth book. As Athenaeus mentions
no characteristic to distinguish him from other
persons of the same name, we cannot say who lhe
was, or whether he is the author of any of the
other works which are known only as the productions of Dorotheus: viz. a Sicilian history (2LcEALK6), from the first book of which a fragment is
preserved in Stobaeus (Flor. xlix. 49) and Apostolius (Proverb. xx. 13); a history of Italy ('IraAicd), from the fourth book of which a statement
is quoted by Plutarch (Parall. lin. 20; comp.
Clem. Alex. Protrept. p. 12); HavUKic--rr, of which
Clemens of Alexandria (Strom. i. p. 144) quotes
the first book; and lastly, Me7TaLopCpxEreos, which
is referred to by Plutarch. (Parall. Mlin. 25.)
2. Of ASCALON, a Greek grammarian frequently

DOROTHEUS.
referred to by Athenaeus, who quotes the 108th
book of a work of his, entitled AEhewv ovvaywyi.
(Athen. vii. p. 329, ix. p. 410, xi. p. 481, xiv. p.
658; comp. Schol. ad Horn. II. ix. 90, x. 252;
Enstath. ad Horn. 11. xxiii. 230, p. 1297.) This
work may be the same as the one repl TWv Ev`ws
eIlpJiiEvwv A EWv Kaard oroiX7Eov (Phot. Bibl. Cod.
156), which seems to have been only a chapter or
section of the great work. Another work of his
bore the title repl 'AMvida'vous Kal rept T-rs mrapda
vewripoms KWoutcKOs a'rTv'sTS. (Athen. xiv. p. 662.)
3. Of ATHENS, is mentioned among the authors
consulted by Pliny. (H.N. Elench. lib. xii. and xiii.)
4. A CHALDAEAN, is mentioned as the author
of a work irepl AiOwv by Plutarch (de FYum. 23),
who quotes the second book of it. He may be
the same as the Dorotheus referred to by Pliny
(H. N. xxii. 22), though the latter may also be
identical with the Athenian, No. 3.
5. Bishop of MARTIANOPLE, lived about A. D.
431, and was a most obstinate follower of the
party and heresies of Nestorius. He was so violent in his opinions, that shortly before the synod
of Ephesus, he declared that any man who believed
that the Virgin Mary was the mother of God was
deserving of eternal damnation. He took part
in the synod of Ephesus. which deposed him on
account of his insisting upon the correctness of the
Nestorian views; and a synod which was held
soon after at Constantinople expelled him from his
see. When Saturninus was appointed his successor, a popular tumult broke out at Martianople, in
consequence of which Dorotheus was exiled by an
imperial edict to Caesareia in Cappadocia. There
are extant by him four Epistles printed in a Latin
translation in Lupus. (Epistol. Ephesinae, No. 46,
78, 115, 137; comp. Cave, Hist. Lit. i. p. 328.)
6. Archimandrita of PALESTINE, lived about
A. D. 600, and is said to have been a disciple of
Joannes Monachus, on whom he waited during an
illness, which lasted for several years. He is believed to have afterwards been made bishop of
Brixia on account of his great learning. He wrote
a work, in three books, on obscure passages in the
Old and New Testament, which however is a mere
compilation made from the works of Gregory the
Great, for which reason it is printed among the
works of the latter, in the Roman edition of 1591,
and the subsequent ones. (Cave, Hist. Lit. i. p.
444; Fabr. Bibl. Gr. xi. p. 103.)
7. Of SIDON, was the author of astrological
poems (dro-rAeroxarra), of which a few fragments
are still extant. They are collected in Iriarte's
Catalog. Cod. MSS. Bibliothl. Mat. i. p. 224, and
in Cramer's Anecdota, iii. pp. 167, 185. Manilius,
among the Romans, and several Arab writers on
astrology, have made considerable use of these
Apotelesmata. Some critics are inclined to consider
Dorotheus of Sidon as identical with the Chaldaean.
8. Of TYRE, has been frequently confounded
with Dorotheus, a presbyter of Antioch in the
reign of Diocletian, who is spoken of by Eusebius.
(H. E. vii. 32.) He must further be distinguished
from another Dorotheus, who was likewise a contemporary of Diocletian. (Euseb. H. E. viii. 1, 6.)
Our Dorotheus is said to have flourished about
A.. D. 303, to have suffered much from the persecutions of Diocletian, and to have been sent into
exile. When this persecution ceased, he returned
to his see, in which he seems to have remained till
the time of the emperor Julian, by whose emissa