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 750 DAlfNIUlL meet the difflenhj. The change of ftrmflnomlXuimfi to Damnnnn introdaoeB another oompficataon. The rariae Uetiom$ throir no light on this. The vari- ation is even repeated m two inscriptionB fimnd in the neighhooriiood of Carvoran (a station on the Vallitm and the Magna of the NotiUa), ood of which is dVTTAa duvhi, and the other dviTAa DUMKOin. The historian of the Boman Wall sees in this onlj a trsosplantatian of the Dumnonii of Devonshire, and draws attention to the poli<7 hj which one tribe already snbdned is made to become instmmental in the sabjngation of othen. He over- looks the Damnii of Ptolemy. Thirdly, the geo- gnj^iical boondaries are indistinct Of the twenty- one names contained in the above-given extract, no more than eight can claim to be identified in a manner soffidently satisfiustory to serve as the basis lor farther criticism. These are, Novantae, Loaoo- jnbra, Betigonimn (Mel. Berigoniom), Selgovae, Bre- meniom, Cktdeni, Ottadini, and the Epidian Promon- tory. Thesesa WigUmthire, Gkn Imob, StranraeTf the shore of the Sohotxy^ High Roehettery Benncl> whire, Northumberland, and tibe MvU of Cantyre re- spectively. Now, no part of the northern shore of the Solway Frith lies sooth of the sonthenmiOAt points of Wiffton (Novantae). Ndther can any popnktion lie (at one and the same time) east of Kircudbright (Selgovae), and wett of the Epidii {Argyh}. By carrying the Selgovae as far as 2>Mi|/r»», these difficulties are increased. Pee6fef, SSstttrib, Lanark^ Edinburgh, lAnliihgow, Renfreuf, and Stirling give ns the nearest approximation to the area of the Damnii or Damnonii of North Britain. [See Dum- HONii.] [B. G. L.3 DA'MNIUM. [DAMNoimjM.] DAMNO'NIUM, in South Britain. Damninm is the form of the word in Mardanns Heracleota. In Ptolemy it is Damnoniom, so that the variations noticed nnder DAMNn are here repeated. Each author gives Ocria as a synonym for the headland (^^ofuf^tov, rh ffol ''OKpiyoy Axpoy, PtoL, and Adflvtor tucpov rh iral "Otcpuuf KoXovfupoWj Marcian. Heraol.), of which the modem name is the Lizard (in Cornwall). [DiTMKONn.] [B. 6. L.] DA'MPOLIS or DIA'MPOLIS (Aid^iroAtf : lam^ bolt)f a Greek town in the interior of Thrace, to the east of Irenopolis, on the river Tonsns. (Ann. Comn. X. p. 274.) It is probably the same place as the Diopolis of Hierocles (p. 635), and the Diospolis of Malala (ii. p. 167). [L. S.] DAN. [Palaestina.] DAN, a town of Palestine, founded by a colony of the tribe of Dan during t^e period of the Judges (xviil cir. b. c. 1406), and assumed as the northern limit of the Holy Land, as Beersheba was the south- ern. (Judges, xx. 1 ; Sam. iiL 20, &c) Its more ancient name was Laish, and it apparently belonged to Sidon (Judges, xx. 7); but in Joshua (xix. 47) Lesham. It became in&moos as one of the chief seats of Jeroboam's idolatry (1 Kings, xii. 29), and its position exposed it first to the invaders of Judaea from the nortL (1 Kings, xv. 20; Jerem, iv. 15, viii. 16.) Its position is plainly marked by TelM-Kady (Kadi being the Arabic equivalent for the Hebrew appellative Dan, both signifying Judge), a ruined site in the Ard-el-Huleh, near the south-western base of Mount Hermon. It is placed by Eosebius and SL Jerome 4 miles from Paneas [Pakkas], on tlie road to Tyre, but is scarcely more than half an hour, or two miles. It has sometimes been coo- DANUBinS. fiNmded with it (Bdaod, pp. 919, 921.) One ef the main sooroes of the Joidan rises ai Ihe feoi of the hill upon whidi the city was built, and the eopioiis stream which itows from it is still called NakrJfiDan, The town has been sopposed to ha;ve lent Its name to the Jordan. (Bekmd, p. 271.) [T it }^U^^C.s^^, [G. W.] DANA. [Ttaha.] DANA or DAGAN A ( Aiira or A<(>vytt, PtoL viL 4. § 5), a town in the ancient Taprobane or Gejlon. Forbiger has coigectnred that it is represented by the modem Tangala or TangaUe, [V.] DANABA (AdtniSa, Ptol v. 15. § 24), a smafl town pUced by Ptolemy in Palmyrene, a sabdiviaoo of his luger district of Coele-Syria. It is mentioDed nnder the name of Danabe in the war between the em p eror Julian and the Persians. (Zosim. iiL 27. 7.) [v.] DA^AL [Argos, p. 202, b. ; Hkllas. J DA'NALA (AiniAaX a place in Gaktia, in the territory of the Trocmi, where Cn. Pompeina and L. Lucullus met, when Pompeius came to ooQtinQe the campaign against Mithridates, and Lucullus sur- rendered the command to him. The ute is unknown. Plutarch (LucuIL c 36) merely says that the two Bomans met in a village of Galatia. (See the note m Groskurd's Strabo, voL ii p. 512.) [G. L.] DANAPBIS. [BoBTSTHKirBS.] DANASTBI& [TTBA&] DANDACA (AaMicri, Ptol iii. 6. § 2; Amm. Mare. xxiL 8. § 36), a town of the Tanric Cherso- nese, of which all that is known is, that it was situ- ated on the W. coast, near Eupatorium. [E. B. J.J DANDAGUDA (Plin. vi. 20. s. 23^ a town placed by Pliny in the neighbourhood of the Prom. Calingon, perhaps the modem CaUnge^MUam. [V.] DANU'BIUS (Aayoiem: the Danube), on coins and uascriptions frequently called Daiotvivs, the greatest river in sontii-eastem Europe. Its sooiees are at Donattesdimgen, on the Mons Abnoba, and, after a long course through ^^ndelida, Noricnm, Pannonia, and Dacia, it ^vides itself near Novio- dunum into three main brsnches, so as to form a delta, and empties its waters into the Euxine. The Danube at first forms the sonthem frontier of Germania Magna; further east it is the boun- dary between Pannonia and Dada, and between Dada and Moesia. Among its many tributaries, we may mention the Dravus, Savus, Pathissus, and Margus, as the principal ones. This river was known even to the earliest Chneeks, under the name of lansK (^Iffrpos), though they knew only the part near ita mouth, aiid entertained very erroneoos notxoos r^ specting its course (Hesiod, Theog. 338; Pind. OIL iii. 25 ; Aeschyl. op. Schol, ad Apdlon, Hhod. iv. 284), which did not become fully known until the time of the Boman empire. The Bomans, and espe- cially their poets, sometimes ad(q[)ted the Greek name IsTuuB or HiSTER (HbulL iv. 1. 146), until m later times the two names Ister and Danubius irere used indiscriminately; though it was still rery com- mon to apply the former to the lower part of the river, and the latter to the upper part, from its sources to Vmdobona or Sirmium. Stej^ianus B., who himself calls the river Dannbis or Danusis, states that its ancient name was Matoasw It is said, moreover, that Danubius was its Thracian, and Ister its Celtic name (Lydus, De Mag. iii. 32; Jomand. De Reb. Get. 12); but there can be no doubt that Dan is the same word which is found in Bhndanus, Eridanns, Tanais, Don, and others, and signifiea