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 756 DASTARCUM. of which howerer he had not milituy po McoBi on. (Lir. xxxL 33.) On peace being made after the battle of Cynoecephalae, Lychnidas, which was the principal town of the Dassaretae, was given np to Pleoratos (Lir. zxziii. 34) the son of Scardilaldas, the IllTrian prince, who in the Social War had stmggled unsoocessfallj with Philip for the possession of Dassaretia (Polyb. t. 108.) The Dassaretae had aerersl towns boides Ltchvidus. Gbruihum and AnriPATKiA were in Phoebatis both on the Uz^Ltni; to the E. of these on the J)ev6l may be phused Orokssus, which was a town of the Pissantini ; and somewhat nearer to the camp of Solpicins, Oorra- QjjMy CoDRioir, and Iuum seem to haye been in the vallej of ihe Utdmi above Ber&t on the slopes ef Timdr, Besides these CRBomuM and' Gbrus are enumerated, with foor towns on the lake Lych- litis, vh. Ehchblabiae, Cerax, Sation, and Bon (Polyb. L c). These four towns were, it has been inferred, on its W. shore, as the Itineraries which followed the E. side of the lake from the bridge of the Drilo to Lychnidns, make no mention of these places. [E. B. J.] DASTABCUM. [Cabmauls.] DATII (A^rioi), a people of Aqoitaua m Gallia, mentioned by Ptolemy (ii. 7), who names their oapital Tasta (T^rra). These names occor no- where else. Ptcdemy places the Datii sonth of the Gabali, and more north than the AnsciL Thns their position is indicated in a general way. Walckenaer has made an ingenious conjecture as to the position of the Datil The Bnteni were soath of the Gabali, and in the northern part of their territory, which bordered on the Gabali, is a river named 2>aee, in the department of Avejfron ; and not fiur from tiiia river Doee, to the south, is a place named TesteL Walckenaer condodes from this resemblance of names that the Datii oocapied a tract between the river Lot and Aoeyromy which was once called St. Albiu» Besemblance of name alone is not soffident evidence of ancient sites, but here we have no other evidence; and the position of the modem names corresponds well enough with the possible position of the Datii as indicated by Ptolemy. The conjecture of Walckenaer is confirmed by the hct, if it is true, which he mentions, that the names Dtue and Tulei occur in no other part of Fnmoe. (Walckenaer, Giog»t &c., vol. ii. p. 247.) [G. L.] DATUM. [Nrafous.] DAULIS (AovX^f : at a later time AavXia, Strab. iz. p. 423, and Aoi/Xior, Polyb. iv. 25: EtK Aea^ u»f, Herod, viii. 35 ; AovAitvr, Aesch. CkoSph, 674: Dh4wiia)j a very ancient town of Phods, near the frontiers of Boeotia, and on the road from Orcho- menos and Ghaeroneia to Delphi. It is said to have derived its name from the woody character of the district, sines MXos was used by the inhabitants instead of Siicrof, wliile others sought for the origin of the name in the mythical nymph Daulis, a daughter of Gephissus. (St»b. iz. p. 423; Paus. z. 4. § 7.) Daulis is mentioned by Homer as a Phodan town along with Crissa and Paaopens. (/iZL ii 520.) It is celebrated in mythdogy as the residence of the Thradan king, Tereus, who married Procne, the daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, and as the scene of those horrible deeds in consequence of which Procne was changed into a swallow, and her sister Philomele into a nightingale. Hence the latter was called by the poets the Daulian Irird. (Thuc ii. 29 ; Paus. I c.) The woody district round the town is still a favourite haunt of the nightingale. DEA VOCONTIORUM. Daulis was des troy ed by the Persians in the in- vaaon of Xerxes. (Herod, viii. 35.) It was de- stroyed a second time by Philip, at the end of the Sacred War (Paus. z 3. § i) ; but it was subse- quently rebuilt, and is mentioned in later times as a town almost impregnable in consequence of its ntna- tion upon a lofty hill (''Daulis, quia in tumulo ezcelso sita est, nee scalis nee operibus capi potermt," lAr, zzzii. 18). Pausanias relates (z. 4. § 7) that the inhabitants of Daulis were few in number, but surpassed all the other Phodans in stature and strength. The only building in the town mentioned by him was a temple of Athena; but in the neigh- bourhood he speaks of a district called Tronis, in which was the chapel of a hero called the Arcbe- getes. The name of Daulis is still preserved in that of the modem village of DAoo/fo, utnated in a narrow valley, through which flows a branch of the Ge- phissus, called Pilotantd. The walls of the acropolis may be traced on the summit of the height rising oppodte the modem village, and connected with the foot of Parnassus by a narrow isthmus. Within the endosure is an andent diurch of St Theodore. Here an Inscription hss been found in whidi mentioa is made of the worship of Athena Polias and of Se- rapis. Before the door of the church in the modem village u another ancient inscription, of considerable lengUi, recording an arbitration made at Chaerooda in die rdgn of Hadrian, concerning oertain property in Daulis. It is given by Leake, and in B9ekh*s cd- lection (Na 1732). In this inscription we read of '^a road leading to the Archagetes," which is eridently the ch^)d of the hero spoken of by Pan- sanias. One of the plots of land in the inscription I is called Platanus, from which probably comes the ' name of the river PlatamieL Gn one of the hdghts above DkavUa lies the mo- nastery of Jerusalem. The road leading to it from the viUage, and from it to the upper heights of Par- nassus, is no doubt the same as the road from Daulis to Parnassus correctly described by Pausanias as longer than the one from Ddphi, but less difficult (Dodwdl, Tour through Grexe, vd. L p. 204; Leake, Northern {rreecs, voL ii. p. 97, seq. ; Ulrichs, Beisen in GriechmUandj p. 143.) DAUNIA. [Apuua.] DAVUNUM. ** Mutatio Davianum " is phuxd in the Jerusalem Itin. on the road from Valentia (Valence) in Gallia Karbonensis to Vapincnm lOap), The distance from **Mansio Monte Se- leuci " to Davianum, which is on the road from Mens Seleucus to Vapincnm, is 8 M. P. lyAnviUe identifies Davianum with a place Fetne. Mens Se- leucus is certainly Salion^ and the position of Davi- anum may be ascertained tolerably welL Walcke- naer places it at La BeanmetUy Detet et U bote de Deves, near the Battie Monialion. [G. L.] DAXIMONFTIS (Aa|i/M*ririr), a country in Poutus, in the valley of the rivtv Iiis. (Strab. p. 547.) Hamilton (Retearcheiy 4*. vol. L p. 358), speaking of the valley of TouriAal, says: *' Here the Iris changes its course from west to north, agreeing inih Strabo's description of that river near Gazioora, where it leaves the plain of Dazinxmitis.'* Tourkhal is west of Toeatf and a little further north. [G. L.] DEA VGGGNTIOBUM, a dty of the Vocantii, who were in Gallia Narbonensis, on the east side of the Rhone. Dea is only mentioned in the Itins., which place it between Lucns (X^ie) and Augusta (iloMff), and 12 M. P. from Lucas. The modem