DINER-OUT OF THE FIRST WATER, the Rev. Sidney Smith; so called by the Quarterly Review (1769-1845).

DINGLE (Old Dick of the), friend of Hobbie Elliott of the Heugh-foot farm.—­Sir W. Scott, The Black Dwarf (time, Anne).

DINGWALL (Davie), the attorney at Wolfe’s Hope village.—­Sir W. Scott, Bride of Lammermoor (time William III.).

DINIAS AND DERCYLLIS (The Wanderings, Adventures, and Loves of), an old Greek novel, the basis of the romance of Antonius Diog’enes in twenty-four books and entitled Incredible Things beyond Thule [Ta HuperThoulen Apista], a store-house from which subsequent writers have borrowed largely.  The work is not extant, but Photius gives an outline of its contents.

DINMONT (Dandy, i.e. Andrew), an eccentric and humorous store farmer at Charlie’s Hope.  He is called “The fighting Dinmont of Liddesdale.”

Ailie Dinmont, wife of Dandy Dinmont.—­Sir W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time George II.).

[Illustration] This novel has been dramatized by Daniel Terry.

DINNER BELL.  Burke was so called from his custom of speaking so long as to interfere with the dinner of the members (1729-1797).

DIOCLE’TIAN, the king and father of Erastus, who was placed under the charge of the “seven wise masters” (Italian version).

In the French version, the father is called
“Dolop’athos.”—­Sandabar’s Parables.

DIOG’ENES, Greek cynic, who carried a lantern at noon, to search for an honest man.

DIOG’ENES (4 syl.), the negro slave of the cynic philosopher Michael Agelestes (4 syl.).—­Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

DI’OMEDE (3 syl.), fed his horses on human flesh, and he was himself eaten by his horse, being thrown to it by Hercules.

DION (Lord), father of Euphra’sia.  Euphrasia is in love with Philaster, heir to the crown of Messi’na.  Disguised as a page, Euphrasia assumes the name of Bellario and enters the service of Philaster.—­Beaumont and Fletcher, Philaster or Love Lies a-bleeding (1638).

(There is considerable resemblance between “Euphrasia” and “Viola” in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, 1614).

DIONAE’AN CAESAR, Julius Caesar, who claimed descent from Venus, called Dione from her mother.  AEneas was son of Venus and Anchises.

  Ecce, Dionaei processit Caesaris astrum.

  Virgil, Eclogues, ix. 47.

DIO’NE (3 syl.), mother of Aphrodite (Venus), Zeus or Jove being the father.  Venus herself is sometimes called Dione.

  Oh, bear ... thy treasures to the green recess,
  Where young Dione strays; with sweetest airs
  Entice her forth to lend her angel form
  For Beauty’s honored image.

  Akenside, Pleasures of Imagination, (1744).