in Ancient Geography, a town on the coast of Illyricum, before called Epidamnum, or Epidamnus, an insignificant name, changed by the Romans to Dyrrachium; a name taken from the peninsula on which it stood. Originally built by the Corcyreans. A Roman colony (Pliny). A town famous in story: its port answered to that of Brundusium, and the passage between both was very ready and expeditious. It was also a very famous mart for the people living on the Adriatic; and the free admission of strangers contributed much to its increase: A contrast to the conduct of the Apollonians who, in imitation of the Spartans, discouraged strangers from settling among them.

**DYSÆ**, in Mythology, inferior goddesses among the Saxons, being the messengers of the great Woden, whose province it was to convey the souls of such as died in battle to his abode, called Valhalla, i.e. the hall of slaughter; where they were to drink with him and their other gods cerevisia, or a kind of malt liquor, in the skulls of their enemies. The Dysæ conveyed those who died a natural death to Hela, the goddess of hell, where they were tormented with hunger, thirst, and every kind of evil.