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 746 DAEDALA. ancient site, probably Daedala: here are numerous tombe hewn in the rocks in the nsnal Ljdan style; some are well-finished. The acropoUs stood on a detached hill; on its summits are remains of a well, and a large cistern. We did not find any inscrip- tions." (Hoekyn.) But though no inscriptions were found, there is hardly any doubt that the place is Daedala. PUny (▼.31) mentions two islands off this coast belonging to the Daedaleis. There is an island off the coast east of the «nouth of the Imgi Chaij and another west of the month of the river; and these may be the islands which Pliny means. The islands of the Ciyeis, three according to Pliny, lie opposite to Crya, on the west side of the gulf of Mairu Livy (zzzvii. 22) mentions Daedala as a " parvum castellum." Ptolemy (▼. 2) places Dae- dida, and indeed the whole of the west side of the gulf of Glaucus, in Lycia. The reader may refer to Hoekyn's map and the Geog. Journal (vol. xii) as to the site of Caunus also, which passage the writer of the article Caunus overlooked. [G. L.] DAEDALA (AmMAa, PtoL vii. I. § 49), a town or district of " India intra Gangem," E. of the Indus, and between that river and the M. Vindios ( Vindhya Mts.)t the territory of the Caspiraeans. Gnrtius would seem to place it on the W. of the Indus (viiL 10. § 19), and the same view is taken by Justin, if his Monies Daedal* refer to this place (xiL 7). Stej^banus simply notices the existence of a place of thb name in India. [V.] DAE'MONUM INSULAE (^Aatfiitw yrjaoi), islands off the coast of Arabia, and in the Arabian Gulf {Red Sea) (PtoL vi. § 15), apparently lying off Yambo. [G. W.] DAESIDIATAE, DESIDATAE (AcuaiJiaTcu), one of the many Pannonian tribes. (Strab. vii. p. 314.) Pliny (iiL 26) and Velleius Paterculns (ii- 115), indeed, mention them among the Illyrian tribes, but thb probably arises from the fact that the Romans regarded the Pannonians generally as lUy- rians. [L. S.] DAETICHAE (AcutTxoi, PtoL vii. 1. § 51), a tribe of '* India intra Gangem," to the N. of the Ganges, and apparently seated among the spurs of the Himalaya mountains. They may have occupied the western portion of NipdL [ V.] DAGASEIRA (AoTdircipa, Arrian, Tnd. c 29), a small place, perhaps a headland, visited by the fleet of Kearchos. It was in the country of the Icthyophagi. Forbiger thinks that it is represented by Cape lash, but this would seem to be more to the westward at Carpella. If the word be of Arabian origin, its original form may have been Dah-jezireK, the island of Dah. The whole district was anciently called Gedrosia. (Vincent, Voyage of NearchuSf voL i. p. 274.) [V.] DAHAE (Aciot, Steph. B. t. v.; Adoi, Herod, i. 52; Dahae. Plin. vi. 19), a numerous nomad tribe who wandered over the steppes to the £. of the Caspian. Strabo (xi. p. 5 1 1 ) has grouped them with the Sacab and Massaobtae as the great Scythian tribes of Inner Asia to the N. of Bactriana. These Dahae were subdivided into Parni (niproi, p. 508) or Aparni C^Airapyoi, p. 51 1), who were found near Hyrcania; Xanthh (Ecu^toi), and PissuRi (THa- aoupoi). Alexander met them on the banks of the river Oxns, and subdued them. (Curt. viiL 3; Justin, xii. 6. § 18.) As might be expected, they occupied no definite DALLU^rrUM. position, but moved as necessity might require; they appear in Arrian {Anab, iiL 28) on the Jaxartes, and were in later times found in this neighbourhood. They were hardy waniors (** indomiti Dahae," Virg. Aen. viil. 728), who served Dardus as caval^ (Arrian, iil 11), Alexander (Arrian, v. 12) and Antiochus (Polyh. v. 79; Liv. xxxv.48, xxxvii. 38, 40) as mounted archers. They were also useful as foot-troopa. (Amm.MarcxziL8. §21 ; Snid.«.c It u most questionable whether any coonedion be- tween the DahM and the Thradan Dad can be traced (comp. Strab. viL p. 304) ; but Bitter {Erdkmde, vol. vii. pp. 668, foil.) has noticed the curioua coincidence (tf the successive arrival of Daci, Getae, and Scytfaiwi tribes to the W. of the Caspian, upon the buiks of the later: while in a previous age the Jaxartes and Oxus were occupied by Dahae, Yueti {Geiae"), and Massagetae to the E. of the Caspian. The writers of Greece and Borne know nothing of the Dahae but their name, position, and warlike virtues. It would appear that the annals of the Chinese give more special information upon the interesting subject of these and other Germanic or red and fair-haind races in Central Asia — one of the most important discoveries of modem times. (Bitter, L c: camp. Humboldt, Asie Cemnde, vol. u. p. 63.) [E. K J.] DAI. [Dahae.] DAIX (A^L{). In the geography of Ptolemy (vL 14; comp. Menand. Hisi, p. 301, ed. Bonn), this river, which he describes as flowing into the Cas- pian, is the second river iirom the Rha {Volga) towards the Jaxartes, the Rhymnus int'en-ening ; but there must be some mistake (comp. Rennell, Geog, Herod, voL L p. 180), as there can be no doubt that tlie Daix is represented by the Jaik or Ural (Humboldt, A tie Centrales vol. ii. p. 186X which forms part of the E. limit of Europe, ri&ing in the Ural mountains, and falling into the Caspian, after a course of about 900 English miles. This river is the W. boundary to the vast steppes over which the hordes of the Kirghiz-Kazaks roam. (Levchine, Hordes et Steppes des Ktrghtz-Kaeaks, p. 3.) f E. B. J.] DALAKDA (AcCAoySo, PtoL r. 7. § 2). Bitter (Erdhmde, voL x. pi 844) has conjectured that the site of this place in the Lesser Armenia may be iden- tified with the remarkable castle of Derendak, sitU' ated at the Tokhmah Su upon a rock of nummulitio limestone, forming clifis which rise 300 feet above the river s bed. This rock has extensive ruins on the platform, with hewn cisterns for preaerring the rain water. These ruins, however, do not date be- yond the epoch (tf the Turks, nor axe any to be per- ceived which belong to a more ancient period, thoogh it has been assumed, from its remarkable postion, that it must have been one of the many Roman or rather Byzantine fortresses which existed in Armenia Minor. (St Martin, Mem. sw VArmemA, vol. i. p. 189; Jowm, Geoa, Soe. voLx. p. 318.) [E.B.J.] DALDIS (j^ AoAdff : Eth, AoXSiartfs), a town which Ptolemy places on the borders of Phrygia and Lydia (v. 2); and Suidas (s. v, ^Afrrtfitiimpos), in Lydia. It was the birthplace of Artemidonis, the author of the Oneirocritica. There are c<nns of the imperial period with the e|ttgraph AoXSuvaMr, The site is unknown. [G. L.J DALION. [DiAOoir.] DALLUNTUM, a town of Dahnatia, which th« Antonine Itinerary places on the road firom Kanma toEpidaoms, 89 M. P. ficom the fanner. It aj^wan
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