amentary borough in the
West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the river Calder, 8 m. S.S.W. of
Leeds, on the Great Northern, London & North-Western, and Lancashire &
Yorkshire railways. Pop. (1901) 28,060. The parish church of All Saints
was for the most part rebuilt in the latter half of the 18th century;
the portions still preserved of the original structure are mainly Early
English. The chief industries are the making of blankets, carpets,
druggets and worsted yarn; and there are iron foundries and machinery
works. Coal is worked in the neighbourhood. The parliamentary borough
includes the adjacent municipal borough of Batley, and returns one
member. The municipal borough, incorporated in 1862, is under a mayor, 6
aldermen and 18 councillors. Area, 1471 acres. Paulinus, first
archbishop of York, about the year 627 preached in the district of
Dewsbury, where Edwin, king of Northumbria, whom he converted to
Christianity, had a royal mansion. At Kirklees, in the parish, are
remains of a Cistercian convent of the 12th century, in an extensive
park, where tradition relates that Robin Hood died and was buried.

DEXIPPUS, PUBLIUS HERENNIUS (c. A.D. 210-273), Greek historian,
statesman and general, was an hereditary priest of the Eleusinian family
of the Kerykes, and held the offices of archon basileus and eponymus in
Athens. When the Heruli overran Greece and captured Athens (269),
Dexippus showed great personal courage and revived the spirit of
patriotism among his degenerate fellow-countrymen. A statue was set up
in his honour, the base of which, with an inscription recording his
services, has been preserved (_Corpus Inscrr. Atticarum_, iii. No. 716).
It is remarkable that the inscription is silent as to his military
achievements. Photius (_cod._ 82) mentions three historical works by
Dexippus, of which considerable fragments remain: (1) [Greek: Ta met'
Alexandron], an epitome of a similarly named work by Arrian; (2) [Greek:
Skuthika], a history of the wars of Rome with the Goths (or Scythians)
in the 3rd century; (3) [Greek: Chronike historia], a chronological
history from the earliest times to the emperor Claudius Gothicus (270),
frequently referred to by the writers of the Augustan history. The work
was continued by Eunapius of Sardis down to 404. Photius speaks very
highly of the style of Dexippus, whom he places on a level with
Thucydides, an opinion by no means confirmed by the fragments (C. W.
Mueller, _F.H.G._ i