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even its representative in the modem Orkoty &r See Greave, Roman Foot and Denarius (Lend. l^C Rasche, Lex. Rd Numarue, II, i, 138 ; Pinkeiloa, ij^ on Medals,!; Akermein.Cjtalogrue €ffRc>m.C9i»siljiii 1834), i, 15-19; and the essays De dmarh eesm ' Christiem (Upsal. 1732) and Mayer (Giyph. I'M}, y Money.
Denck. See Denk.
Denderah (Gr. Tenipn ; Coptic Teaterc, pr^i^ bly from Tei^n-Athor, the abode of Athor), t rea. town of Upper Egypt, situated near the Idt htak. a the NUe, in lat 26° 13' N., long. 32° 40' L I* celebrated on account of its temple, dating firo^ ^ period of Cleopatra and the earlier Roman eaptrs and one of the finest and best preserved slrocte^i the kind in Egypt. The principal tempk meas^ 220 feet in length by about 50 in breadth, aad k* . noble portico supported on 24 columns. Tt» vi^ columns, etc., are covered with figure airf bitf» glyphics. Prominent among the former it tbit i Athor or Aphrodite, to whom the temple was ^e^ ted. On the ceiling of the portico are nnm«t)» Bi- ological figtures arranged in zodiacal fashion, «-^-
• Zodiac** of Denderah.
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Northern Gate and principal Temple of Dendei-aiu
re been regarded as a representation of the zodiac ; . certain peculiarities have led some recent arch»- gical travellers to doubt whether tlie figures were ended to have any reference to astronomy. There i many other sacred buildings at Denderah, includ- jf a temple of Isis. The whole, with the exception one propylon, are surrounded by a sun^ried brick- ill, 1000 feet long on one side, and in some parts 86 it high. — Chambers, Encydopadia^ s. v. Denial. See Selp-denial. DENIAL OF Christ (Luke xii, 9). See Peter. Denis, the French name for Dionysius (q. v.). Denis or DenTs, St., 1. the so-called apostle of •ance and first bi.^'hop of Paris, is said to have been nt from Rome about 250 A.D. to preach the Gospel the Gauls. After delays from persecutions brought I him b}' bb zeal at Aries and other places, he ar- ved in Paris, where he made many proselytes. Pe- lenniua or Sicinnius Lescennius, who was then the Oman governor of this part of Gaul, ordered Denis to B brought before him, along with other two Christians, usticu?, a priest, and Eleutherius, a deacon. Finding lem firm in their faith in spite of torture, Pescennius aused them to be beheaded, A.D. 272, or, as others ay, A.D. 290. Gregory of Tours, Fortunatus, and the Aim martyrologists state that the bodies of the three lartyrs were thrown mto the Seine, but were recov- red by a pious woman, and buried near the place There they lost their lives. Their supposed relics, in ilver caskets, were afterwards taken to the abbey of )t. Denis (see below). The A eta of St. Denis, written tbout the end of the 7th or beginning of the 8th cen- nry, is founded upon popular traditions, and the best iistorians of France hold that nothing can be certainly mown of either the time or the place of the martj-r- lom, or of the genuineness of the relics of St. Denis. \t, Denis was for a long time confounded with Diony- »ius the Areopagite (q. v.). He is honored as a saint n the Roman Church on the 9th of October. His lame was the war-cry of the French soldiers, who charged to the en' Mon/joye St.Denut.—Hoefer, Now. Bioff. Cfnerale, xiii, 674. See Dionysius the Are-
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2. The Abbey of St. Denis, near Paris, named fW)in the tradition that Dionysius the Areopagite was buried there. The abl)ey was founded by Dagobert I, king of France, A.D. 613. The vaults of the church of St Genevieve, connected with the abbey, contained [before the French Revolution) the bodies of 25 kings, 10 queens, 84 princes and princesses, and those of Ber- trand du Guesclin and Turenne. In 1793 a mob, head- ed by the Jacobins, destroyed the abbey and carried the contents of the vaults' to the nearest cemetery. The abbey was restored in 1806, and after the Resto- ration Louis XVIII caused such of the remams as could be found to be restored. There is still at the abbey of St. Denis a chapter of St. Dionysius Areopa- gita, composed of the grand almoner (primicier), 10 canon« of the first class (archbishops and bishops aged oyer 60), and 24 canons of the second class.— Pierer, Umwrtal-Lexihon, s. v.
DeniB, Michael, a German Jesuit, was bom at Sch&rding, on the Inn, Sept. 27, 1729. He entered the order of the Jesuits in 1747, and was ordained priest in 1766. In 1769 he was appointed professor at the Collegium Theresianum at Vienna, and in 1778 librarian of the Ubrary of Garelli. After the suppres- sion of the Collegium Theresianum in 1784, the em- peror Joseph II appointed him second •*custos" and aulic councillor. He died Sept. 29, 1800. Denis was in friendly relations with Klopstock and other promi- nent scholars of Protestant Germany, and was esteem- ed for his amiable character and for his efforts in be- half of German literature. He became especially known by his attempt to imitate the poetry of the an- cient bards ; but his poems were more admired for their noble sentiments than their poetical value. He also wrote several bibliographical works, and a Latin elegy on the down&ll of his order (Fatum Jewiiarum). A posthumous autobiography of Denis was published, together with other posthumous writings, by Retzer (Ltterarigcher Nackkus, Yienna, 1801-18{)2\— A Umm. ReaJ^Encyhlop. iv, 285.