ttempt to
rehabilitate Domitian; S. Gsell, _Essai sur le regne de l'empereur
Domitien_ (1894), very complete in every respect; H. Schiller (as
above), pp. 520-538; C. Merivale, _Hist. of the Romans under the
Empire_, ch. 61, 62. For Domitian's attitude towards Christianity see
V. Schultze in Herzog-Hauck's _Realencyklopadie fur protestantische
Theologie_, iv. (1898); Sir W. M. Ramsay, _The Church in the Roman
Empire_ (1903); E. G. Hardy, _Christianity and the Roman Government_
(1894); J. B. Bury, Appendix 8 to vol. ii. of his edition of Gibbon.

DOMREMY-LA-PUCELLE, a village of eastern France, in the department of
Vosges, on the left bank of the Meuse, 7 m. N. of Neufchateau by road.
Pop. (1906) 233. Domremy was the birthplace of Joan of Arc, and the
cottage in which she was born still stands. Above the door are the arms
of France and of Joan of Arc and an inscription of 1481 reading "Vive
labeur; vive le roi Louys." There are several monuments to the heroine,
and a modern basilica has been erected in her honour on a neighbouring
hill, where she is said to have heard the voices in obedience to which
she took up the sword. The story of the heroine is annually celebrated
by a play in which the villagers take part.

DON (anc. _Tanais_), a river of European Russia, called _Tuna_ or _Duna_
by the Tatars, rising in Lake Ivan (580 ft. above sea-level) in the
government of Tula, where it has communication with the Volga by means
of the Yepifan Canal, which links it with the Upa, a tributary of the
Oka, which itself enters the Volga. The Don, after curving east through
the government of Ryazan, flows generally south through the governments
of Tambov, Orel, Voronezh and the Don Cossacks territory, describing in
the last-named a sweeping loop to the east, in the course of which it
approaches within 48 m. of the Volga in 49 deg. N. In the middle of the
Don Cossacks territory it turns definitely south-west, and finally
enters the north-east extremity of the Sea of Azov, forming a delta 130
sq. m. in extent. Its total length is 1325 m., and its drainage area is
calculated at 166,000 sq. m. The average fall of the river is about
5-1/4 in. to the mile. In its upper course, which may be regarded as
extending to the confluence of the Voronezh in 51 deg. 40', the Don
flows for the most part through a low-lying, fertile country, though in
the government of Ryazan its banks are rocky and steep, and in some
place