III. Ltterorfure.— Wolff (Philip), Dk Drusenundihre Vorlaufer; Gibbon, Decline and Fall (Boston, 1850, 12mo), V, 531 (and especially Milraan's note) ; De Sacy, JExposi de la KeUffion det Druaet (Paris, 1838, 2 vols.) ; G. W. Chasseaud, The Druses of the Lebanon; their MannerSy Customs^ and History (London, 1855, 8vo) ; Churchill, Mt. LAanon ; a Ten Years* Besidence^ from 1842-52, with supplementary volume on The DrvMt and the Afaromies under Turkish Bute (Lond. 1855-62, 4 vols. 8vo) ; Foreign Quarterly Review^ xxix, p. 205 ; Pierer, Universal'Lexikonj s. v. ; Robinson, Biblteal Re- searches (Lond. 1840) ; BibKotheca Sacra, 1843, p. 205 ; Journal of Sacred Liieraturey xix, 489; New EngUmd- er, January, 1861, art. ii ; Kelly, Syria and the Holy Land (compiled from Burckhardt and others, London, 8vo, n. d.), chap, xii ; Thomson, Land and Bock, i, 246, 249) ; Caernarvon, BecoUections of the Dnues of the Lebanon, and Notes on their Religion (Lond. 1860) ; H. Guys, La Nation Druse (Paris, 1863); H. Guys, Thi- ogonie des Druses ou abregi de leur systhne reUgieux, traduit de Varabe, avec notes expUcatitfes et ohservor tUms critiques (Paris, 1863) ; G. de Alaux, Le Liban et Daud Pasha, in the Bevue des Deux Mondes, 1865, July 1, and 1866, May 1 ; AOgem. Beal-Encyhiopddie,
8. V.
Dmsilla (ApoifoiXXa), youngest daughter of Her- od Agrippa I by his wife Cypres, and sister of Herod Agrippa II, was only six years old when her father died in A.D. 44 (Josephus, AnL xix, 9, 1 ; xx, 7, 1 and 2). Being celebrated for her beauty, she had already been promised in marriage to Epiphanes, son of Anti- ochos, king of Comagene, but the match was broken off in consequence of Epiphanes refusing to perform his promise of conforming to the Jewish religion. Hereupon Azizus, king of Edessa, obtained Dmsilla as his wife, and performed the condition of becoming a Jew (Josephus, Ant. x, 7, 1). Afterwards Felix, the procurator of Judiea, fell in love with her, and in- duced her to leave Azizus, a course to which she was prompted not only by the fair promises of Felix, but by a desire to escape the annoyance to which she was subjected by the envy of her sister Berenice, who, though ten years older, vied with her in beauty (ib. 2). She thought, perhaps, that Felix, whom she accepted as a second husband, would be better able to protect her than Azizus, whom she divorced. In the Acts
(xxiv, 24) she is mentioned in such a HBwikii may naturally be supposed to have beet piBm Paul preached before Felix in A.D.S^ ^'J Drusilla had a son, Agrippa, who perisbcdma^l tion of Vesuvius (Josephoa, Ant, xix, 7; xx,S). U itus {Hist. V. 9) says that Felix raanied Dt^i granddaughter of Cleopatra and Aotfaooj. Tkli^ silla he refers to, if any such person emea^n have been a daughter of Juba and Ckepata Sn for the names and fate of all the other defend 4 Cleopatra and Anthony are known fron ctfem^ But the account given by Josephot of ibe puu; of Druailhi is more consistent than tfaatof Tutsn the notice in the Acts, by which it sffem ^ h was a Jewess. Some have supposed that Mew ried in succession two Dmsills; and ew lent to this otherwise improbable caajedmhufi^ pression of Suetonius (jdaud. xxvin), vl» c^ f tk '*the husband of three qneens.** (SeelSi^fiii Idum, p. 464 sq. ; Walch, De FeMee, ia^HC,}.: sq.) See Feux.
Dmaitts, JoHAmms (Dbieschb, }a\ a rl- nent critic and Orientalist, was bom tt Ob^b^U Flanders, June 28, 1 550, and was eductted it Gk« is Louvain. * * His father, having been oothvcd ia IjC. and deprived of his estate, retired to Eagb^oi Drusius soon followed him. His motktvteis- tinned a Roman Catholic, did all she cooUtspiiTSt him. His studies wore taken care o^ tsi mat] provided for him ; and he had soon tn oppstistTt^ learning Hebrew under Anthony CeTe!liei,ilen come over to England, and taught that bngei^ pii^ licly in the University of Cambridge. DnriBlaL'i at his house, and had a great shan m bit friable He did not return to London till 1571, and, tI^ b was preparing to go to France, the new rf tfe a* sacre on St. Bartholomew made him dusge W r»\ lution. Soon after this he was invited to Cu^^ by Cartwright, the professor of divinitj aod tk''t^ ental languages there, at the age of twaitjr-tn. Bl taught at Oxford four years with great socae; ifc? which, being desirous of returning to liis owb tccsj,! he went to Louvain, where he stodied tlie cirS br The troubles on the account of religion otliied^* come back to his fiUher at London, hot apos tic >; cilication of Ghent, 1576, they both returned to I« vahi" {New Gen. DidHonary, iv, 506). He ww »» \ professor of Oriental languages at Lerdea ia la^ oi of Hebrew at Franeker 1585, where he diedFel- 1616. His works, which are held in giwtetfffi have been for the most part incorporated intotberrii- id Sacri. Among the most important m y^^\ interpretum Gracorum in tohan vdas Teitma^f^i menta (Amhemiaa, 1622, 4to) :— ^ft«*rtfoiw « ^ Jesu ChrisH Testamenium Sbri deem (FnwtlC:! 4to) i—Ecclesiasiicus, Greece et Laiiie (FtuhI^'-I 4to) :—Proverbiorum Sacrorum dams (te(F^ 1590, Ato) i—Parallela Sacra, seu co«parae»t^^ Vet, Test, cum Us, qua in Novo ato»ftir(Fraaetl^- 4to) i—Libri decern AnnotatioHUM intotwJm (^*\ Testamentum (Amst. 1682, 4to). For t list of 1b* *f ings, see Niceron, Memoires, xxii, 65; «« tl» ^/^ ard Simon, Histoire Crit. du N. T. (Paris, W; <-^ riander. Vita DrusU (Francf. 1616) ; Baylft, i*<»^ s. V. ; Herzog, J?ea/-£^iU!ip. iii, 629.