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Diorix

DIORIX, or Dioryx. We find this word in Ecclesiasticus xxiv. 41. Ego quasi Raban. in Eccles. xxiv. 41. Complut. Sixt. V. Fluvius Dorix. cix. 29. מעיל Alii Fluvius vorax. Διπλοΐς.fluvii Diorix. Some have taken it for the proper name of a river. But it is a Greek word which signifies a channel, a rivulet. In the same Chapter, v. 43. this term is translated trames. Factus est mihi trames abundans.

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