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 ?54 DABEIDIL town was an Aeoliaii aettiement, and it is men^ooei I among the towoa on the HeUespont^ which Danrises die Persian took after the burning of Sardia. (Herod. T. 1 17.) In another place (vi. 43), Herodotoa ob- serree that Oardanua bordered on the territory of Ab^dos; which might also be aafely inferred irom the passage in the fifth book. It is mentioned bj Scylax in hia Periplna of the Troad. In the battle between the Athenians and Peloponnesians in the twenty-first year of the Peloponnesian War (b. c. 411), the line of the 68 ships of the Peloponnesians extended from Abydns to Dardanna (Thnc. viii. 1 04) ; a statement that can hardly be correct, for the ships that were outside of the ]Hiomontory of Dardanis would be oompleiely separated from the rest. Stnbo (p. 595) aays that Dardanna waa so weak a phuse, that the kings, by whom he means Alexander's snc- oeiaon, some of them several times reroored all the people to Abydoa, and others moved them back again to their old place. On thia spot L. Cornelias SuUa and Mthii^btes met, after Soila had crossed over fipom Europe, and here they came to terma about putting an end to the war, b. c 84. (Strab. p. 595; Pint M2c, c. 24.) It was at that time a free dty, baring been dechued such by the Romans After the peace with king Antiochus, B.G. 190, in honour of the TVojan deaoent of the people, (liv, zxxyii. 9, 37, xzxviii. 39.) There are many imperial coins «f Danbmus; and of Domna. Sestmi, Mon. Vet p. 76." (Cramer, Atia AUnoTf roL L p. 82.) Thia seems to show that the stream which flows into the Hellespont near the cape Dardanis, is the Rhodina, and not the river nearer Abydns; but it is not decisive. The modem name DardemiUes is generally supposed to be derived from the name of Danlanus. [G. L.] DAREIUM. [Afavarcticbmb.] DARENTIACA, as D'AnviUe writes the name, but Daventia, as Walekenaer writes it, a place m Gallia Narbonensis, which tiie Jemsalem Itin. pats between Augusta (A^mt) «nd Civitas Vocontiorum {Die), The site is unknown. It is fixed by some writers near a plaoe called SaUUmt. [G. L.] DARGAMA'NES(Aap7afu(vns,PtoLvL 11. §2, 18. § 2), according to Ptolemy, a river which flowed through Bactriana and Ml into the Oxus, crossing onitsway thecountiyof theParopamisidae. Ammi- anus states that the Oigomanenes (evidently this river) and the Ochos unite, and then fall into the Oxus (xxiiL 6). Wilson {ArioHo, p. 160) thinks its modem representative is either the Dchat or the Gari river. Ptolemy speaks of another tributary of the Oxus, which he calls Dargcedns (A^ipyoiSor, vi. 1 1. § 2), and which appears to have flowed in nearly the same direction as the Dargamenes. Wilson {AriaiMf p. 162) seems to think this stream is the Gori or river of KunduB. Perhaps, after all, the Dargamenes and Dargoedus are one and the same river. [V.] DARIDKA (Ac^iSra: Eth, Aopiaycuor), a vil- lage of Paphlagonia, mentioned by Alexander Poly- histor in his work on Paphlagonia. ^Steph. &. A ».) [G. L.] DARIOBIGUM {AapiSpiywy, the capital of the Veneti, one of the Armoric natioDs of Gallia (Ptol. ii. 8). The Table has the same place on the road from Jullomagns (Afiffen) to Gesocribate (S^vst), but under the name Dartoritum. Dariorigum is aupposed to be the modem town of Fonaes, in the department of Jlfor6iftaM. It seems that Dariorignn DASCTLItTIL toiDonding to the feshion of many other Gallic towns, took the name of the pec^e under the Empire, and the name Veneti is the origin of Vannet. The Bre- tons still call the place Wenet or GveneL [G. L.] DARNII, in Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy aa lying to the south of Rhobogdii (or the pt^ubtioD about Fair Bead), coinciding with the southern part of Antrim and the northern part of Down. [B.G.L.] DARNIS (Ai^yir; erroneously written in Ptolemy AdpSoyir ; ZoptH^, Stadiasm. p. 444: JDema), a dty of Cyrenaica, on the coast, near the £. extremity of the country, is only mentioned by comparatively late writers, and, though a bishop*8 see, appears never to have been an important place. {Itm. AiU, pp. 68, 70; Amm. Marc. xxiL 16; Pacfao^ p. 96; Baith, p.480.) [P- &] DARRAE (Ao^M- Two tribes of this name are mentioned in the Arabian peninsula, one in the Hedjaz by Ptolemy (vi. 7), Uie other in modem Omdn by Pliny (ri. 28). Mr. ForsUff aays *< that two tribes of diflerent origin, but similar appdhtionsy anciently existed, aa the places which they inhabited, and which still respectively prta e i v e thdr namea, actually exist in both ritoations; the one a Joktanite race, inhabitants of Darrka, in Oman ; the other an Ishmaelite pec^e, inhabitants of Kkedketfre, near Yembo, and in whose name we discover, under the disguise of a familiar contraction (Kedairhae, Daxrhae), a branch of the renowned people of Kedar.** {Arabia^ vol. i. p. 54; oomp. p. 79.) Of the latter he further writes: ** The town of Khedkeyre, upon the same coast (of Hedjaz), north-west of the LM mountain, taken in conjunction with the tribe of Khadhera, carries the existing traces of Kedar to the northem fixmtier of the Hedjaz ; the aacertained eite of the Darrae, Cedrd, or Kedranitae, of Ptolemy, Pliny, and Stephanos of Bysantiam after Uranius" (vd. L p. 261). Of the farmer, in Omda, he says, ** the name cf Hadonm reappears, apparently, in the Don and Darrae of Pliny, or the modem tribe and town of Darrha" (vd. L p. 139), to the west of Ba»-^ Had. [G. W.] DABSA, a place in Asia Minor, to which the Soman consal On. Manilas (Liv. xxxviiL 15) came after leaving Cormasa. [CoKXAaA.] The ate of Cormasa is unknown. Livy remarks that Darsa was the next dty to Cormasa, but he saya nothing of the distance; and the phu» is not mentianed in the fragments of Polybios (xxiL 19). [G. L.] DABVENUM (Aapo6evop, Aapodtfuw), a town in Britain, mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 3. § 27) aa one of the three towns of the Cantii, Londiniam and Ru* tupiae {London and Hkhboroagh) being the other two. [& G. L.] DASCirSA (Aomco^o, Ptol. t. 7. § 2, the common reading is Acurjco^), a fbrtresa in leaser Armenia, upon the river Euphrates, 75 M. P. from Zimara (Plin. v. 20), and 45 M.P. to the N. of Giaca {Peat, Tab. comp. AtUon. /<m.) It was garrisoned by the " Ala Anreliana " {NoL Imp. cxxviL) and has been identified with the ferry and lead mines of Keibdn Ma'den, the points where the Kar^ S» is jdned by the Murdd Chdi at about 270 miles from its source. (Ritter, Erdhmde, voL x. pp. 800, 823, 831, 858 ; Joum. Gtog. Soc voL vi. p. 203 ; Chemey, JSk^£ifxArae.voLLp.41,vd.iiL271.) [E.BJ.] DASCYLma [Dascyuux.] DASCY'LIUM (AoiTK^XioK, AaatevKuu^j Daagr- Ina: Eth. Aao-KvAfnis). Ste]iianns B. (a. v.) men- tions sevttral Asiatic dties called Dascylinm. The only phce of any historical note ia the town near tha
 * the name of the riyer Rhodius appeao on a medal