two or tliree small islands. A spur of Mount Car- tl, steep and partially wooded, runs parallel to the EisUllne, at the distance of about a mile and a half. )tween its base and the sandy beach is a rich and autifUl plain — this b possibly the " border," coast," or " region" (rw, Symmaohns iropaXta) of or (Josh, xi, 2 ; xii, 28 ^1 Kings iv, 11). The dis- ict is now almost wholly deserted, being exposed to le raids of the wild Bedouins who pasture their flocks 1 the rich plain of Sharon. — Smith, s. r. See also [amath-dob; £k-dor.
Do'ra (1 Mace xv, 11, 13, 26). See Dob.
Dor'cas (Aopicdct a female aniehpe; explained in tie text as equivalent to Syr. KH'^SD, a gazelU\ a haritable and pious Christian widow <k Joppa, whom 'eter restored to lif^B (Acts ix, 88-41). The sacred rriter mentions her as ** a certain disciple named Tab- tha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas," the eason of which probably is that she was a Hellenistic (ewess, and was called Dorcas by the Greeks, while o the Jews she was known by the name of Tabitha q. v.). See Gazelle.
Dorcas Society, " a name given to an associa- ion of ladies who collect and dispose of garments with he benevolent object of giving aid to necessitous fam- ilies. Sometimes the ladies connected with a congre- ^tion unite to form a Dorcas society, in order to af- ford employment to poor needlewomen. Societies of this kind are so called fW>m what is recorded in Acts ix, 39 : * And all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas mode while she was with them.* "—Chambers, Ency- clopcrdia, s. y.
DoTohester, Daniel, a Methodist Episcopal min- ister, was bom at Vernon, Conn., Jan. 26, 1790. He was drafted for service in the war of 1812, and soon •fter his term of military duty expired he was licensed to preach. In 1816 he entered the travellmg ministry hi the New EngUnd Conference, and served as minis- ter and presiding elder until his final superannuation in 1860. In 1858 he went to the West; m 1854 was made librarian of the public library and readinc-room i& CMcogo, and died near that city August 6, 1854.
Mr. Dorehester was a man of clear intellect and de- cided character. He ably defended Methodism in a time when it was ** much spoken against." On many of his circuits there were extensive revivals. — Min- utes of C&nfermcetj v, 513.
Doris (Aopic)i A Jewess of low descent, the first wife of Herod the Great (Josephus, Ant. xiv, 12, 1), by whom she had Antipater ( War^ i, 28, 4) ; she was ex- pelled from court on account of alleged complicity in the treason of Pheroras ( War, i, 80, 4).
Dor5a (Aopoa), a town whose ancient name and site was discovered by Seetzen fh)m an inscription found by him in the modem village ed-Dur, in the re- gion of the Hauran, south of the Lejah, and a little south of Wady Kanamat (Ritter, Erdk. xv, 868).
Dorothdils (Aop^S^i oc, God-given\ the deputy ap- pointed by Nicanor, the royal steward of Ptolemy PhU- adelphns, to entertain the seventy learned persons sent fh>m Jerusalem to translate the Old Testament into Greek (Joseph. Ant. xii, 2, 12, 18). See Septuaoint.
Dorotheus, a presbyter of Antioch, mentioned by Ensebius as " a man of fine taste in sacred literature, who was much devoted to the study of the Hebrew language, so that he read the Hebrew Scriptures with great facility. He also was of a very liberal mind, and not unacquainted with the preparatory studies pursued among the Greeks, but in other respects a eu- nuch by nature, having been such ftt>m his birth ; so that the emperor, on this account, as if it were a great miracle, received him into his house and fitmily, and honored him with an appointment over the purple dye establishment of Tyre. Him we have heard in the chnreh expounding the Scriptures with great judg- ment" As Eusebius says that he flourished under CyrU, who is supposed to have been bishop of Antioch from A.D. 280 to 800, the date of Dorotheus may be given as about A.D. 290.— Ensebius, Hist. Ecdes. bk. vii, c. 82 ; Lardner, Works (10 vols. 8vo), vol. lii, 159.
DorotheuB of T3rre, supposed to have been bish- op of lyre about A.D. 800. He is said (not by con- temporary writers, but by later martyrelogists) to have suffered greatly in the persecutions under Dioclesian, and to have suffered martyrdom under Julian, A.D. 868. There is extant under his name a Synojfsis de vita et morte Prophetanimy Apostohrwn, et Discipulo' rum Domini (given in Bibkoth. Max. Patrum, iii, 421). ** It is now generally allowed to be fabulous, and of little or no value." — Lardner, Works (10 vols. 8vo), iii, 161 ; Fabricius, Bibl. Graca (edition Harles), vii, 452 ; Cave, Hist. Lit. (Geneva, 1720), i, 108; Oudin, Script. Ecdes. i, 1877.
Dorotheas, bishop of Mardanople, in Moesia, in the fifth century, was a strong advocate of Nestorian- ism. He pronounced anathema against all who as- serted that Mary was the mother of God. He attend- ed, as a bishop, the Council of Epheeus (opened June 22, 481), which denounced the Nestorians as schismat- ics ; and he was banished to Cappadoda by order of the emperor Theodoeius. Four letters of his are pre- served in the collection of P. Lupus, entitled Ad Ephesi- anum OondHum variorum Patrum Epistolte (Louv. 1682, 2 vols. 4to).— Cave, Hist. Lit. (Genev. 1720), i, 269.