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* DANA. 7S7 DANAUS. and legal loaiiiing. To prosecute studies on in- leniational law he went to Kurope in 1S7S. lie died in Kome of pneumonia. Consult Adams, liichdrd Henry Danu : A Bioyruphy (1890). DANA, SAiiiEi. LuTiiEi! (1705-181)8). An American chemist. While clicmist of the Merri- mack print-works he invented a method of bleach- ing cotton goods which was widely adopted, and discovered that sodium phos])hate is a monlant, a fact of considerable importance in the art of calico-printing. DANA, WiLi.iAsr Parsons (1833—). An American artist, born in Boston. He studied art in Paris under Picot and Le Poitevin, and be- came known as a marine and genre painter. He was made a member of the National Academy in 18U3, and in 1878 won a third-class medal at the Paris Exposition for his picture "Gathering Seaweed" (1878). Other of his works are: "Chase of the Frigate Constitution," and "Heartsease." DANAE, dan'a-e (Lat., from Gk. Aavai). The daughter of Acrisius, King of Argos. Ac- cording to the legend, an oracle declared that her son would kill his grandfather. Acrisius there- fore confined Danae in an underground chamber, or in a tower of bronze. Here she was visited by Zeus in a shower of gold, and bore him Per- seus ( q.v. ). Acrisius put both the mother and child into a chest, and exposed them on the sea. The chest, however, drifted ashore on the island of Seriphos, and Danae and her child were saved. Danae remained in the island until Perseus had grown up and become a hero famous for his ex- ploits. She afterwards accompanied him to Argos. On his approach Acrisius fled, but was subsequently slain accidentally by Perseus at Larissa. Rembrandt, Correggio, and Titian have made the picturesque union of Danae and Zeus the subject of famous paintings, which hang respectively in the Hermitage at Saint Peters- burg, the Palazzo Borghese at Rome, and the Museo Nazionale at Naples. A second Titian on the same myth is in the Imperial Gallery, Vienna. DAN.ffi'US, or DANEAU, da'no'. Lamcekt (c.lo30-!)5) . A French Reformed theologian. He was born at Beaugency; studied law at Orleans, Paris, and Bourges ; became a Protestant in 1.560; was preacher in France (1,501-72) ; fled to Geneva on the outbreak of the Saint Bartholo- mew massacres (August 24, 1572), and preached in various other places till his death at Castres, November 11, 1595. He was one of the most im- portant Reformed theologians of the sixteenth century, and the author of many learned vol- umes, the most famous of which is his Elhica Christinna (1577: 7th ed. 1G40), the first Prot- estant attempt at a system of morals apart from dogmatics. For his life, consult Paul de Felice (Paris, 1882). DANAI, dan'a-i, or DANAOI, dan'a-oi (Lat., from Gk. Aai/aol, Dnnaoi). A term originally applied to the Argives as the descendants of King Danaiis. Because of their warlike character, Homer uses the name to designate the Greeks in general. DAN AIDE, dan'a-Id (from Lat. DnnauJes. Gk. AamiSes. the fifty daughters of Danaiis. condemned, with one exception, to pour water eternally into sieves as a punishment for mur- d(!ring llieir husliands <iii their wedding night at their father's bidding). . early form of water- wheel, sometimes called a tub-wheel. It resendiled a smaller tub set in a larger one, with a free annular space and with a horizontal space be- tween the two bottoms provided with radial lloats, arranged spirally. The whole device re- volved on a vertical axis, water llowing through it vertically. DANAIS, drin'a-Is (Neo-Lat., from Gk. Aa- ■jah, daughter of Danaiis). A genus of large blue- and brown-winged, strongly marked nym- phalid butterfiies of the tropics, of especial inter- est to the students of mimicry and prolwlive coloration. According to Bates and Wallace cer- tain South American species are distasteful to the local birds, monkeys, and other huttcrfly- huuters, and therefore lly about regardless of exposure : and they are 'mimicked' by other butterflies, which are eatable, in order to secure immunity through this gradually acquired re- semblance. (See Mimicry.) An Australian species is the bugong 'moth,' whose gmb the ab- origines regard as a dainty. (See Bugong.) The representative of the group in the United States is the familiar milkweed-butterfly, for- merly classified as Danais arcliipptis. See Milkweed-Butterfly. DANAKIL, dii'na'kil. An Ethiopian people, calling themselves Afar. See also Africa, Elh- nologij. DANAO, da-nii'6; A town of Cebu, Philip- pines, situated four miles north of C'ebi'i, on the coast, near the mouth of the Danao River. The town is verj' old, having existed from the time of the conquest. Population, in 1898, 15,483. DANATTS, dan'a-us (Lat., from Gk. Aorais). A mythical personage, according to the common genealogy, the son of Belus and Anehinoe, grand- son of Poseidon, brother of .Egyptus. and origi- nally ruler of Libya. Thinking his life in dan- ger from the machinations of his brother, he fled to Argos, accompanied by his fifty daugh- ters, known as the Danaides, where he was chosen king, after the banishment of Gelanor. the last of the Inachid*. The fifty sons of -Egv'ptus followed him, and sought the hands of his daughters in marriage. Danaiis consented, but in fear of treachery or in revenge for his exile, gave each of his daughters a dagger, and made them promise to murder their husbands on their wedding night. All did so. except Hyperm- nestra, who saved her husband, Lynceus. The future of the Danaides was variously t(dd. .e- eording to one version, Danaiis found no suitors for his daughters, and finally offered them as prizes in a contest. They were thus married to the Argive 3'outh and became the ancestors of the Danai. The stoiy of Lyneeus was also variously told : according to one version Hyperm- ncstra was forgiven, and Lyneeus chosen by Danaiis as his successor. The other version was that L)'nceus later slew Danaiis and his guilty daughters. The Danaides in the lower world were condemned to the never-ending task of fill- ing with water a vessel full of holes. The Danaides seem to have been regarded as in'mjihs of the springs in the plain of Argos. and Danaiis is said to have been the first to dig wells for the inhabitants, who thereupon chose him king. The tomb of Danaiis, in the .gora of .igos, was shown as late as the time of Pausanias.