DUROBRIVE.
 

ECBATANA
 

   Durobrtv^e (now Rochester),  a  town  of the

 Cantii in Britain

   DuROCAsrs (now Breux), a town  of the  Car-

 flutes in Gallia Lugdunensis.

   DUROCATELAUNT.  Vid. OaTALAUNL

   Durooortorum (now Rheims), the capital of

 (he  Remi  in  Gallia Belgica, and subsequently

 called Remi, was a populous and powerful town.

   Duronia, a  town in Samnium in  Italy, west

 of the Caudine passes.

   Durotriges, a people in Britain, in Dorset

 shire, and   the  west of Somersetshire:  their

 chief town was Dunium (now Borchester).

   Durovernum  or  Darvernum (now Canter¬

 bury), a town of the  Cantii in Britain, after¬

 ward called Cantuaria.

   Dyardanes  or G5danes (now  Brahmaputra),

 a  river in  India, falls into  the  Ganges on the

 eastern side.

   Dymas (Avpag).   1.  Son of Egimius, from

 whom the  Dymanes, one of the three tribes of

 the Dorians, were believed to have derived their

 name.—[2.  Father of Asius and of Hecuba, the

wife of Priam, lived in   Phrygia,  on  the Sanga-

 rius:  Hecuba is  hence  called Bymantis  proles

(Ovid. Her, xi.  762) and Bymantis (lb, xiii,

 620).—3. A Phaaacian,  whose daughter was an

 attendant of Nausicaa.—4. A Trojan, who fought

by the side  of Eneas on the night of the capture

of Troy ; he was killed by  his own friends in

 mistake for a Greek whose  armor  he had  put

 on.]

   Dyme or Dym.e (Avun, Avuai: Avualog,  Dy

 maeus : ruins near Karauostasi), a town in the

 west  Of  Achaia, near  the  coast;  one  of the

 twelve Achaean  towns; it  founded, along with

 Patrae, the  second Achaean league;  and was at

 a later time colonized by the Romans.

  Dyras (Avpag), a small river  in  Phthiotis in

Thessaly, falls into the Sinus Maliaeus.

  Dyrrhachium  (Avppdxwv: Avp'p'dxiog, Avfifia-

 Xnvog, Dyrraehinus:  now  Burazzo), formerly

called EprDAMNUS ('Eiridauvog: 'Embdfivwg),  a

town  in Greek  Dlyria, on  a peninsula in  the

 Adriatic  Sea.  It was  founded by  the  Corcy-

 raeans, and  received  the name Epidamnus ;  but

since  the Romans considered this name a  bad

omen,  as reminding them  of  damnum,  they

 changed  it  into   Dyrrhachium when they  be¬

 came masters of the country.   Under the  Ro¬

mans it became an important place; it was the

usual place of landing  for persons who crossed

over from Brundisium.    Commerce and  trade

were carried on here with great activity, whence

it is called Taberna Adrie by Catullus (xxxvi,

 15); and here commenced  the  great  Egnatia

Via leading to the East.  In the civil war it was

the head-quarters of Pompey, who  kept all his

 military stores here.  In A.D. 345  it was de¬

 stroyed by an earthquake.

  Dysorum (to Avoapcv), a  mountain in  Mace¬

 donia with  gold  mines, between Chaleidiee  and

 Odomantice.

   Dyspontium (Avckovtwv : Avairbvriog), an an¬

 cient town  of Pisatis in Elie north of the Al¬

 pheus, was destroyed by the Eleans, whereupon

 its inhabitants removed ti Epidamnus and Apol¬

 lonia.

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   [Eblana ("EBXava),  a  citv of the Eblani in

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 Hibernia, on the eastern coast, probably answer

 ing to the modern Bublin.~\

   Ebora.  1.  Or Ebura Cerealis, a small tows

 in Hispania Baetica, perhaps in the  neighbor¬

 hood of the modern Sta  Cruz.—2. Surnamed

 Liberalitas Julia (uow Evora), a Roman mu¬

 nicipium in Lusitania.—3. Or  Ebura (now S.

 Lucar de Barrameda), a town in  Hispania  Baeti¬

 ca, near the mouth of the  Baetis.—4. A fortress

 of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis.

   Eboracum or Eburaoum (now York), a town

 of the Brigantes in Britain, was made a Roman

 station by Agricola, and soon became the chief

 Roman  settlement in  the whole island. It was

 both  a  municipium and a colony.  It was the

 head-quarters  of the sixth legion, and the resi¬

 dence of the Roman emperors when they visited

 Britain.  Here the emperors Septimius Severus

 and  Constantius Chlorus died.  Part of the an¬

 cient Roman  walls still exist at  York  ;  and

 many Roman  remains have been  found in the

 modern city.

   Eborolacum (now Evreule, on the  river Si-

 oule), a town in Aquitania.

   Ebrodunum (now Embrun), a  town  in  Gallia

 Narbonensis, in the Cottian Alps.

   EbCd-e or Hebud-e (now Hebrides), islands in

the  Western Ocean  off Britain.   They  were

five in number according to Ptolemy, two  called

 Ebudae,  Maleus, Epidium, and Ricina.

   Eburomagus or  Hebromagus (near  Brum or

 Villerazons), a town in Gallia Narbonensis.

   Eburones, a German people who crossed the

 Rhine and  settled in Gallia Belgica,  between

 the Rhine and the Mosa (now Maas), in a marshy

 and  woody district.   They  were  dependants

 (clientes) of the Treviri, and were in Caesar's

 time under  the  rule of Ambiorix  and Cativol-

 eus.   Their insurrection against the   Romans,

 B.C 54, was severely punished by  Caesar, and

 from this time they disappear from history.

   EburovIces.   Vid. Aulerci.

   Ebusus or Ebusus (now Iviza), the largest of

 the Pity usee Insulaa,  off the eastern  coast of

 Spain, reckoned by  some  writers  among the

 Baleares. .  It  was celebrated for  its  excellent

figs.   Its capital,  also  called Ebusus, was  a

civitas fcederata, possessed  an excellent harbor,

was  well built, and  carried  on  a  considerable

trade.

   Ecbatana (rd 'Ev.Bdrava, Ion. and Poet.  'Ay-

 Bdrava:  now  Hamadan),  a  great city,   most

pleasantly  situated, near  the foot of Mount

 Orontes, in the north  of Great Media,  was the

capital  oi the Median  kingdom, and afterward

the summer residence of the  Persian  and Par¬

thian kings.  Its foundation  was more ancient

than any historical record: Herodotus ascribes

it  to  Deioces,  and Diodorus  to Semiramis.  It

had  a circuit of two hundred and forty stadia,

 and was surrounded by seven walls, each over¬

 topping the one  before it,  and crowned with

 battlements of drfferent colors: these  walls no

 longer existed  in  the  time of Polybius.  The

 citadel, of great strength, was used  as the royal

 treasury.  Below it stood a magnificent palace,

 the tiles  of whieh were  silver, and  the capitals,

 entablatures, and  wainscotings  of silver  and

 gold; treasures which the  Seleueidaa coined into

 money, to the amount of four thousand talents

 The circuit of this place was seven  stadia.