Dorus
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Dorus the bookseller
in the texts
Orations
Mythical eponymous ancestor of the Dorians
but the very rulers of men, men engaged in public life and farming, as it may happen, and simply living — as Cyrus ruled the Persians, and Deioces the Medes, and Hellen those named after him, and Aeolus the Aeolians, and Dorus the Dorians, and Numa the Romans, and Dardanus the Phrygians.
Ion
Son of Xuthus and Creusa, foretold to become eponymous ancestor of the Dorian people.
Dorus, whence the famous Dorian state will spring;
On Benefits
A bookseller who owns and sells copies of Cicero's books, illustrating the distinction between authorial and possessory ownership.
the same Dorus the bookseller calls his own, and both are true.