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 t 75S DAPHNON. DARAS. ^fi^t f J.c> of Daplme. (MaUh, pp. 243, 278.) Tbe leign of Trajan was remarkable in the anoala of the place for the roBtoration of the bnildings destroyed by an earth- qnake. That of Commodns was still more memo- rable on aoooont of the establishment (or rather the re-establishment) of periodical Olympian games at Antioch; for the stadimn of Daphne was the scene of the festiYe contests. Thb was the time of that cormption of nuumers (the " Daphn ici moru" of Marcos Antoninns) nnder which Roman soldiers and Roman empero^ sufiered so serioosly in the Syrian metropdis. The decay of Daphne most be dated firom the reign of Jolian, when the strdggle between Heathenism and Christianity was decided in &Tomr of the latter. Constantine erected a statue of Helena within the ancient sanctnaiy of ApoUo and Jnpiter, and the great church at Antioch was roofed with cypress- wood from Daphne ; which, abont the reign oif Zeno, fell into the condition of an ordinary Syrian town. It is needless to porsne the history further. Among modem trayellers, Pooocke and Richter have fixed Uie site of Daphne at BeU-el-MaOf the distance of which from AntaJtia agrees with the ancient measmnment, and where some poor remains are foond near a nomber of abnndant foxmtains. Fwbiger (^AUe Geograpkie, yoL iL p. 657) Uiinks with Kinneir that the tme position is at BaJb^; but, though the apparent oonnectioa of this name with that of the martyr Babylas gives some ground for thu opinion, the distance fnni Antioch is too great; and the former yiew is probably correct No detailed account of the remains has been given. Poijoulat says {Corr, dOrienL viii. 98), *< A cdt^ de la plus pio- fonde fontaine de BeU-el-moiSf on remarqne des dAris massifs appartenant k on Edifice des dges leculds: si jMtais antiqnaire et savant, je pourrais pent-6tre prouver que ces restes sont ceuz dn Temple poUon." [J. & H.] DAPHNON, the name of a town and a river seated upon the eastero shore of the Red Sea, in lat 11^ N. 1. The town (A^vwr /<^Kp<>tt Arrian, PeripL Mar, Erythr. p. 7 ; Strab. zvi. 774) was sitoated between the promontory Aromata in the Regie Cinnamcmifera (^Cape Guardafiii) and the promon- tory of Uephas at the month of the Red Sea(SbYit(f of Bab-^MandA), 2. The river (A^mwy lUyas^ sometimes denomi- nated 'Ajc^yMu, Ptol. iv. 1. § 101) ky a little east- ward of the town Daphnon, and formed its haiboor. The Promontoiy of Uephas sheltered this port from the east wind, and broke the force of the current at the entrance of the Straits. [W. B. D.] DAPHNUS (Ao^i/f: Etk Aa^imos or Leupyoiaioi). Stephanus («. 9.) mentions several places of this name ; but he does not mention Daphnus in the territory of Glazomenae. [Clazombnas.] He mentions a lake called Da^nusis near the Bithynian Olympus. [G. L.] DAPHNUS (Aa^M>Dr: Etk, Aa^o6rrioSt Aa- ^oiJcriof ), a dty on the Enboean sea, originally be- longing to Phods, which thus extended from the Corinthian gulf to the Euboean sea. Its narrow territory separated the Locri Epicnemidii from the Locri Opuntii; but it was afterwards assigned to the Opnntii. The town was in ruins in iJao time of Strabo, who fixes its site by describing it as distant 80 stadia from Cynus and 1 20 from Elateia, and as having a harbour. (Strab. ix. pp. 416, 424, 426; Plia iv. 7. s. 12; Steph. B. <; v.; Leake, Northern GreecSf vol. ii pp. 176.) / / C^/#^ / ^' «• r t « ^ A DARA(Aif»a,PtQLvi.8.§4). LAsmanrmrof Cannaoia, at no great distance from the frontier of Persia. There can be little doubt that it is the same as the Dora of Mardan (Per^ pi 21) and Uw Dara^ of Pliny (vi. 25. s. 28). Dr. Vmoent con- jectures {Voyage of Noamhu^ voL L p. 372) that it is the same as the Dara^m or Derrorim of modem charts. 2. A city in Parthia. [Apayabcticebs.] 3. A dty in Mesopotamia. [DARAfi.] [V.] DAHADAE, the name of Ethiopian tribes in two different parts of Africa; one abont the central part, in Darfomr {^Lapiimv (Bifos, PtoL iv. 7. § 35). the other in the W., on the river Dabadub, also called Aethiopes Daratitae. (Pdyb. op Plin. v. I ; Aga- them, ii. 5.) [P. S.] DARADAX (AcumSo^), a Syrian river, mentioned only by Xenophon (Anab. i. 4. § 10). It has been identified with the Far, a small tributary of the Euphrates. At the source of the river was a par- lace of Belesis, then satrap of Syria, with a large and beautiful park, which were destroyed l^ Cyn» the Younger. (J IUI&.Z.C.) [G.W.] DARADUS, DARAS, or DARAT (AcSpoSor # Adpas, Ptol. iv. 6. § 6), a river of Africa, falling into the Atlantic on the W. coast, near the Portoa Magnus, and containing crocodiles (Plin. v. 1); pro- bably the GtmUria or Dio dOuro, [P. &] DARAE, a Gaetulian tribe in the W. of Afrka^ on a mountain stream called Dara, on the S. steppes of M. Atlas, adjacent to the PharusiL (Plin. r. I ; Oros. i 2; Leo Afr. p. 602.) [P. S.] DARADRAE (Aapd»fKu, Ptol. viL 1. § 42^ « mountain tribe who lived in the upper Indus. For- biger conjectures that they are the same people whom Strabo (xv. p. 706) calls Derdae, and Plhiy Dardae (vi. 19), and perhaps as the Dadicae of He- rodotus (iii. 91, vii. 66). It is possible, however, that these latter people Uved stall further to the N., perhaps in Sogdiana, though thor assodatian with the Gandarii (Sanscrit Gandhins) points to a mors southern locality. [V.] DARANTASIA, a place in Gallia Naiboncnas. The name occurs only in the Itins. and the Notitia of the provinces of Gallia. The Antonine Itin. places it on the road from Mediolanum in Italy over the Alpis Giaia to Vienna ( Viame) on the Rkome; and the Table places it on the road from Veroellae in Italy over the Alpis Grata, also to Vienna. Both agree in making the distance from Bexgintrum [Bbbointbum] toDarantasia 14 M. P. Darantasia is Moviiert en TVirentaife, a pUoe situated at an angle of the /«^ and the chief town of the 7Vire»- tam, Moutkrg is a corruption of Monasterinm. The old name of the pUoe, Darantasia, haa been ex- tended to the whole countiy called Tarenttme, which is included in the Duchy of Savoy. (See Walckenaer, Geog.j vol ill. pp. 26, 27, on the roates here referred to.) PG. L.] DARAPSA. [Bactriaka, p. 365, a.] DARAS (A^, Prooop. BelL Pers, i. 10, ii. 13, de Aedf. ii. 1--3, iii. 5), a town of Mesopotamia,' about 98 stadia from I^bts, which plays an im- portant part in the wars of the Lower Empire between the Greeks of Constantinople and the Sassanian princes. According to Procopius, it was raised from a village to a dty by the emperor Anastasius, who gave it his own name, and called it Anastasi(^polis« A. D. 507. (MalaU, xvi. p. 1 15, who calls it A^dsJ) It was built on the eaeteni frontier of the Roman empire towards Assvria, with the object of overawinj^