Diodorus Siculus
a native of Agyrium, in Sicily, who wrote a "Universal History" in 40 books, of which only 15 books and a few fragments remain. He flourished about B. C. 10.
DICECIOUS (dī-ē'shus), in botany, a term applied to unisexual plants, such as the willow and the hemp, in which the staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers are on separate individuals. In zoölogy, a term applied to those animals in which the sexes are distinct; that is, those in which the ovum is produced by one in- DIOMEDES (dī-ō-mēdēz), in Greek mythology, (1) a king of the Bistones, who fed his horses on human flesh, and used to throw all strangers who entered his territories to those animals to be devoured. He was killed by Hercules, who carried off the horses. (2) One of the heroes at the siege of Troy, the son of Tydeus and Deïpyle, and King of Argos, one of the suitors of Helen. After she was carried off Diomedes engaged in the expedition against Troy, in which his courage and the protection of Pallas rendered him one of the most dislas rendered him one of the most disand by carrying off the horses of dite and Ares, and thrice assailed Apollo; and by carrying off the horses of Rhesus from the enemies' tents, and aidditions on which alone Troy could be conquered. Finally he was one of the heroes ditions on which alone Troy could be conquered. Finally he was one of the heroes concealed in the wooden horse by whom the capture of Troy was at length accomplished. Different accounts given of his after-life. He is often called Diomede.
DIOGENES were DIONEA (Gr. Diōnē, one of the names of Venus), a genus of plants belonging consists of a single species, D. muscipula, commonly called Venus' fly-trap. The consists of two portions united together side of each part of the lamina are situside of each part of the lamina are situated three irritable hairs, which, on being from below upward, so as to inclose any object. The food thus captured is digested by the action of a fluid resembling gested by the action of a fluid resembling native of the United States. a