A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

DOSSENUS.
G.. ~ 7). The fragment resembles the commencement of elementary legal works, as those of Ulpian and Gaius, with which we are already
acquainted; and it is not likely that a petty grammarian would have employed himself in making a
legal compilation. By Cujas and others, it has
been attributed to Ulpian, but it seems, from some
reasons, to have been of rather earlier date. It is,
however, at least as late as Hadrian, for the author
quotes Neratius Priscus and Julianus. As Doritheus himself calls the work Regulae, it is supposed
by Lachmann, who supports his conjecture by
strong arguments, to have been an extract from
"Pauli Regularnm Libri vii. The Latin text that
has come down to us appears to be a miserable
retranslation from the Greek, and many have been
the conjectures as to the mode in which it was
formed. Lachmann seems to have been successful in solving the enigma. He thinks that the
Greek text was intended as a theme for re-translation into Latin by the pupils of Dositheus, and
that the present Latin text was formed by placing
the words of the original text, out of their original
order, under the corresponding words of the Greek
version. Proceeding on this idea, Lachmann has
attempted, and, on the whole, with success, out of
the disjointed Latin, to restore the original. 4. The
fourth chapter is imperfect, but contains extracts
from the Genealogia of Hyginus, which were first
published by Augustinus van Staveren. 5. The
fifth chapter, which wants the commencement,
contains a narrative of the Trojan war, formed
from summaries of books vii.-xxiv. of Homer's
Iliad. 6. The sixth chapter contains a scholastic
conversation of no value. The whole of the third
book was published separately by Bicking, 16mo.
Bonn, 1832. [J. T. G.]
DOSI'THEUS (Aoo-ieos), a Greek physician,
who must have lived in or before the sixth century
after Christ, as Aetius has preserved (Tetrab. ii.
Serm. iv. cap. 63, p. 424) one of his medical formulae, which is called " valde celeber," and which
is also inserted by Nicolaus Myrepsus in his Antidotarium. (Sect. xli. cap. 78, p. 792.) Another of
his prescriptions is quoted by Paulus Aegineta.
(De Re Med. vii. 11, p. 660.) [W. A. G.]I
DOSSENNUS FA'BIUS, or DORSENNUS,
an ancient Latin comic dramatist, censured by
Horace on account of the exaggerated buffoonery
of his characters, and the mercenary carelessness
with which his pieces were hastily produced. Two
lines of this author, one of them from a play
named Acharistio, are quoted by Pliny in proof of
the estimation in which the Romans of the olden
time held perfumed wines, and his epitaph has
been preserved by Seneca"' Hospes resiste et sophiam Dosenni lege."
Munk, while he admits the existence of a Dossennus, whom he believes to have composed
palliatae, maintains that this name (like that of
Macchus) was appropriated to one of the standard
characters in the Atellane farces. (Hor. Epist. ii.
1. 173, where some of the oldest MSS. have Dorsenus; Plin. H. N. xiv. 15; Senec. Epist. 89;
Munk, deFabulis Atellan. pp. 28, 35,122.) [W.R.]
DOSSE'NUS, L. RU'BRIUS, of whom there
are several coins extant, but who is not mentioned
by any ancient writer. A specimen of one of
these coins is given below, containing on the obverse a head of Jupiter, and on the reverse a quadriga, resembling a triumphal carriage, from which

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it may be inferred that this Dossenus had obtained
a triumph for some victory.
DOTIS (Acoris), a daughter of Elatus or Asterius, by Amphictyone, from whom the Dotian
plain, in Thessaly, was believed to have derived
its name. Dotis was the mother of Phlegyas, by
Ares. (Apollod. iii. 5. ~ 5, where in some editions
we have a wrong reading, Xpvdo-s, instead of AwrL8os; Steph. Byz. s. v. Aw-nrov.) [L. S.]
DOXA'PATER, GREGO'RIUS,a Graeco-Roman jurist, who is occasionally mentioned in the
scholia on the Basilica. (Basil. vol. iii. p. 440, vii.
16. 317.) He is probably the same person with
the Gregorius of Basil. ii. p. 566, and vii. p. 607.
Montfaucon (Palaeograph. Graec. lib. i. c. 6,
p. 62, lib. iv. c. 6, p. 302; Diar. Ital. p. 217; Bibl.
MSSt. p. 196), shews that a Doxapater, who
was Diaconus Magnae Ecclesiae and Nomophylax
(besides other titles and offices), edited a Nomocanon, or synopsis of ecclesiastical law, at the command of Joannes Comnenus, who reigned A. D.
1118-1143. The manuscript of this work is in
the library of the fathers of St. Basil, at Rome.
Pohl (ad Suares Notit. Basil. p. 139, n. 8) seems
to make Montfaucon identify the author of this
Nomocanon with the Lord Gregorius Doxapater,
the jurist of the Basilica, who is not mentioned
by Montfaucon.
Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. lib. v. c. 25) attributes the
authorship of this Nomocanon to Doxapater Nilus,
who, under Rogerius, in Sicily, about A. D. 1143,
wrote a treatise, de quinque Patriarchalibus Sedibus,
'first published by Stephen le Moyne, in his Varia
Sacra, i. p. 211. Fabricius is probably correct,
and it is not likely that Doxapater Nilus and
Gregorius Doxapater were the same person.
The untrustworthy Papadopoli (Praenot. Mystag.
p. 372), speaks of a Doxapater, Sacellarius, as the
last of the Greek jurists, and cites his scholia upon
the Novells of Isaacus Angelus, who reigned A. D.
1185-1195. (Heimbach, de Basil. Origin. p.
81.) [J. T. G.]
DOXI'PATER (AoNthrarpos), or DOXO'PATER, JOANNES, a Greek grammarian or rhetorician, under whose name we possess an extensive
commentary on Aphthonius, which was printed for
the first time by Aldus, in 1509, and again by Wals
in his Rhetores Graeci, vol. ii. The commentary
bears the title 'OUhXia els 'A<pOdviov, and is extremely
diffuse, so that it occupies upwards of 400 pages.
It is full of long quotations from Plato, Thucydides,
Diodorus, Plutarch, and from several of the Christian Fathers. The explanations given seem to be
derived from earlier commentators of Aphthonius.
There is another work of a similar character which
bears the name of Doxipater. It is entitled rlpoAe-yoaeIa TVTs pSjroppic&js, and, as its author mentions the emperor Michael Calaphates, he must
have lived after the year A. D. 1041. It is printed
in the Biblioth. Coislin. p. 590, &c.; in Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. ix. p. 586 of the old edition, and in
Walz, Rhetor. Graec. vol. vi. (Walz, Prolegom. ad
vol. ii. p. ii., and vol. vi. p. xi.) [L. 8.]