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

DYNAMIUS. DYSPONTEUS. 1093
DURO'NIA GENS, plebeian. Of this obscure that Dynamius was compelled to quit his native
gens no cognomen, and only four members are city in consequence of being charged, not unjustly
known, viz. it would seem, with adultery, that he took refuge
1. DURONIA, the mother of P. Aebutius. Her under the assumed name of Flavinius at Lerida,
second husband was T. Sempronius Rutilus, who where he practised as a rhetorician, and that he
seems to have had a dislike to his stepson Aebutius. there wedded a wealthy Spanish bride. Late in
His mother, perhaps with a view to get rid of him life he paid a short visit to the place of his birth,
in some way, wanted to get him initiated in the but soon returned to his adopted country, where
Bacchanalian orgies at Rome; but Aebutius be- he died. (Auson. Prof xxiii.)
trayed the Bacchanalia to the consuls, who pro- 2. A grammarian of uncertain date, the author
tected him against his mother, and Duronia was of an "Epistola ad Discipulun" to be found in the
thus the cause of the discovery and suppression of " Paraenetici Scriptores Veteres " of Melchior
those orgies, in B. c. 186. (Liv. xxxix. 9, 11, 19.) Goldast. (Insul. 4to, 1604.) He is believed by
2. L. DURONIUS, was praetor in B. c. 181, and some to be the same with No. 3.
obtained Apulia for his province, to which the 3. Of Arles, born of a noble family in the midIstri were added, for ambassadors from Tarentum die of the sixth century, and at the early age of
and Brundusium had complained of the piracy of thirty appointed governor of the province of Marthe Istri. He was at the same time commissioned seilles, where he soon became notorious for tyranny
to make inquiries concerning the Bacchanalia, of and extortion, persecuting with especial hostility
which some remaining symptoms had been observed the bishop Theodorus, whom he drove into banishthe year before. This commission was in all proba- ment, confiscating at the same time the revenues
bility given him for no other reason but because of the see. As he advanced in life, however, a
those symptoms had been observed in the districts singular change was wrought in his character by
which had been assigned to him as his province, remorse or some motive now unknown. He beSubsequently he sailed with ten vessels to Illyri- came the obedient instrument of pope Gregory, the
cum, and the year after, when he returned to zealous champion of the rights of Rome, lavished
Rome, he reported that the Illyrian king Genthius his ill-gotten hoards on the endowment of monaswas the cause of the piracy which was carried on teries, and ended his life in a cloister about A. D.
in the Adriatic. (Liv. xl. 18, 19, 42.) 601. In youth he composed several poetical
3. M. DURONIUS, a Roman senator, who was pieces, which are warmly lauded by Fortunatus of
ejected from the senate in B. c. 97 by the censors, Poitiers; but the only productions of his pen now
M. Antonius, the orator, and L. Valerius Flaccus; extant are the Vita S. Marii, abbot of Bevon, an
for Duronius in his tribuneship (probably in the abridgment of which is given in the Acta of Bolyear B. c. 98) had abolished a lex szunptuaria, and landus under the 27th of January; and the Vita
had used very frivolous and reckless expressions on S. lMaximi, originally abbot of Lerins, but afterthat occasion. In revenge he brought an accusa- wards bishop of Riez, contained in the collection
tion for ambitus against the censor M. Antonius. of Surius under 27 Nov., and in a more correct
(Val. Max. ii. 9. ~ 5; Cic. de Orat. ii. 68; comp. form in the "Chronologia S. Insulae Lerinensis," by
64.) Vincentius Barralis, Lugdun. 4to, 1613. [W.R.]
4. C. DunoNIUs, is mentioned by Cicero (ad DYRRHA'CHIUS (Avppaxos), a son of PoAtt. v. 8) as a friend of Milo. [L. S.] seidon and Melissa, from whom the town of DyrraDYMAS (Auaye), a son of Aegimius, and bro- chium derived its name; for formerly it was called
ther of Pamphylus and Hyllus. The three tribes Epidamnus, after the father of Melissa. (Paus. vi.
into which each Doric state was divided, derived 10, in fin.; Steph. Byz. s. v. AvsidiXov.) [L. S.]
their names from these three brothers, and were DYSAULES (Avuoavks), the father of Tricalled accordingly Hylleis, Dymanes, and Pam- ptolemus and Eubuleus, and a brother of Celeus.
phyli. Dymas and Pamphyhns were believed to According to a tradition of Phlius, which Pausahave lived from the time of Heracles until the con- nias disbelieved, he had been expelled from Eleusis
quest of Peloponnesus, when both fell. (Apollod. by Ion, and had come to Phlius, where he introii. 8. ~ 3; Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. li. 121, where the duced the Eleusinian mysteries. His tomb was
third brother is called Dorus; Paus. vii. 16. ~ 3.) shewn at Celeae, which he is said to have named
There are three other mythical personages of this after his brother Celeus. (Paus. i. 14. ~ 2, ii. 14.
name. (Hom. II. xvi. 719; Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 5; ~ 2.) [L. S.]
Ov. Met. xi. 761; Hom. Od. vi. 22; Virg. Aen. ii. DYSPONTEUS or DYSPO'NTIUS (Avo310, 428.) [L. S.] 7roVrTEV or AveroS'nTos), according to Pausanias
DYNA'MIUS. 1. A legal pleader of Bordeaux, (vi. 22. ~ 6), a son of Oenomaus, but according to
known to us through a short poetical memoir in Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Avonrdvmaov), a son
elegiac verse, composed after his decease by his of Pelops, was believed to be the founder of the
friend Ausonius. From this little piece we learn town of Dyspontium, in Pisatis. [L. S.]

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