371; Eus
ing obtained husbands in this manner, for llyperm- tath.
ing obtained husbands in this manner, for llyperm- tath.
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DAMOʻPIIÌLUS or DEMO'PHILUS, a painter DAMOʻTELES (Aquot és). 1. A Spartan,
and modelier (plastcs) who, with Gorgasus, embel through whose treachery, according to one account,
lished the teniple of Ceres by the Circus Maximus Cleomenes was defeated by Antigonus at the bar-
at Rome with works of art in both departments, le of Sellasia, B. c. 222. (Phylarch. ap. Plut.
to which was affixed an inscription in Greck Cleom. 28 ; comp. Polyb. ii. 65, &c. ) Damoteles
verses, intimating that the works on the right is said in Plutarch to have had the office of com-
were by Damophilus, those on the left by Gorgasus. mander of the Crypteia (see Dict. of Ant. s. r. ),
(Plin. xxxv. 12. 6. 45. ) This temple was that which would quality him for the service of recon-
of Ceres, Liber, and Libera, which was vowed by noitring assigned to him by Cleomenes before the
the dictator A. Postumius, in his battle with the engagement.
Latins, B. C. 496, and was dedicated by Sp. Cassius 2. An Actolian, was one of the ambassadors
Viscellinus in B. C. 493. (Dionys. vi. 17, 94 ; Tac. whom his countrymen, by the advice of the Athe-
Inn. ii. 19. ) See DEMONIILUS. (P. S. ] nians, sent to Rome in B. c. 190 to negotiate with
DAMOʻPHILUS (Aquóqınos), a philosopher the senate for peace. He returned in the ensuing
and sophist, was brought up by Julian, who was year without having accomplished his object. M.
consul under the emperor Marcus. His writings Fulvius, the consul, having crossed over from Italy
were very numerous ; the following were found in against them, the Aetolians once more despatched
the libraries by Suidas: 1. P11661620s, the first Damoteles to Rome; but, having ascertained on
book of which was upon books worth having (Tepl his arrival at Leucas that Fulvius was on his way
åflokTÝTW Bebniwv), and was addressed to Lollius through Epeirus to besiege Ambracia, he thought
Maximus ; 2. On the Lives of the Ancients (Tepl the embassy hopeless, and returned to Aetolia.
Biwy áp xaiwv); and very many others. (Suid. We hear of him again among those who came to
8. v. ; Voss. Hist. Graec. PP. 269, 270, ed. Wes- Fulvius at Ambracia to sue for peace, which was
termann. )
[P. S. ) granted by the consul and afterwards ratified by
DAMOPHON (Aapoow), a sculptor of Mes the senate. [Damis, No. 2. ) (Polyb. xxi. 3, xxii.
sene, was the only Messenian artist of any note. 8, 9, 12, 13; Liv. xxxviii. 8. ) [E. E. )
(Paus. iv. 31. $ 8. ) His time is doubtful. Heyne DAMOʻXENUS (Aaudzevos) was an Athenian
and Winckelmann place him a little later than comic poet of the new comedy, and perhaps partly
Phidias ; Quatremère de Quincy from B. c. 340 to of the middle. Two of his plays, entitled úvtpo
B. c. 300. Sillig (Catal. Art. s. v. Demophon) ar-poi and 'EautòV Tevowy, are mentioned by Athe-
gues, from the fact that he adorned Messene and naeus, who quotes a long passage from the former,
Megalopolis with his chief works, that he lived and a few lines from the latier. Elsewhere he
about the time when Messene was restored and calls him, less correctly, Demoxenus. The longer
Megalopolis was built. (B. C. 372–370. ) Pausa- fragment was first published, with a Latin version,
nias mentions the following works of Damophon : by Hugo Grotius, in his Excerpta ex Tragoedüs et
At Aegius in Achaia, a statue of Lucina, of wood, Comoediis Graecis, Par. 1626, 4to. (Ath. i.
except the face, hands, and toes, which were of p. 15, b. , iii. p. 101, f. , xi. p. 469, a. ; Suid. s. v. ;
Pentelic marble, and were, no doubt, the only Eudoc. p. 131; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec.
parts uncovered : also, statues of Hygeia and As-i. p. 484, &c. , iv. p. 529, &c. , p. 843, &c. ) [P. S. ]
clepius in the shrine of Eileithyia and Asclepius, DANAE (Aaván). See Acrisius. We may
bearing the artist's name in an iambic line on the add here the story which we meet with at a later
base : at Messene, a statue of the Mother of the time in Italy, and according to which Danaë went
Gods, in Parian marble, one of Artemis Laphria, to Italy, built the town of Ardea, and married
and several marble statues in the temple of Ascle- Pilumnus, by whom she became the mother of
pius : at Megalopolis, wooden statues of Hermes Daunus, the ancestor of Turnus. (Virg. Aen. vii.
and Aphrodite, with faces, hands, and toes of mar- 372, 409, with Servius's note. ) (L. S. ]
ble, and a great monolith group of Despoena (i. e. DANA'IDES ( Aavaiôes), the fifty daughters of
Cora) and Demeter, scated on a throne, which is Danaus, whose names are given by Apollodorus
fully described by Pausanias. He also repaired (ii. 1. $ 5) and Hyginus (Fab. 170), though they
Phidias's colossal statue of Zeus at Olympia, the are not the same in both lists. They were be-
ivory plates of which had become loose. (Paus. iv. trothed to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, but were
31. Ś5, 6, 8, viii. 31. SS 3, 5, 37. $ 2. ) [P. S. ) compelled by their father to promise him to kill
DAMOSTRA'TIA (Aauootpatía), a courtezan their husbands, in the first night, with the swords
of the emperor Commodus, who subsequently be- which he gave them. They fulfilled their promise,
came the wife of Cleander, the favourite of the em- and cut off the heads of their husbands with the ex-
peror. (Dion Cass. Ixxii. 12; CLEANDER. ) [L. S. ] ception of Hypermnestra alone, who was married to
DAŇOʻSTRATUS (Aquóotpatos), a person Lynceus, and who spared his life. (Pind. Nem. x. 7. )
whose name appears in the title of an epigram in According to some accounts, Amymone and Berbyce
the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. ii
. 259; also did not kill their husbands. (Schol. ad Pind.
Jacobs, Anth. Graec. ii. 235), Aquootpátov åvá- Pyth. ix. 200; Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 805. )
Onua tais vúupais, but whether he was the author | Hypermnestra was punished by her father with im-
of the epigram, or the person who dedicated the prisonment, but was afterwards restored to her
statue to the nymphs, on which the epigram was husband Lynceus. The Danaides buried the corpses
inscribed, does not appear. Reiske supposed that of their victims, and were purified from their crime
he might be the same person as Demostratus, a by Hermes and Athena at the command of Zeus.
Roman senator, who wrote a poem on fishing Danais afterwards found it difficult to obtain hus-
(AMTEUTIKÁ), which is often quoted by the ancient bands for his daughters, and he invited men to
writers, and who lived in the first century after public contests, in which his daughters were given
Christ. (Jacobs, Anth. Grucc. xiii. 881; Fabric. as prizes to the victors (Pind. Ryth. ix. 117. )
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DANAUS.
DAPHNAEUS.
He was
Pindar mentions only forty-eight Danaïdes as hav- , ging wells. (Strab. i. p. 23, viii. p.
371; Eus
ing obtained husbands in this manner, for llyperm- tath. ad llom. p. 461. ) The sons of Aegyptus in
mestra and Amymone are not included, since the the mean time had followed their uncle to Argos ;
former was already married to Lyncens and the they assured him of their peaceful sentiments and
latter to Poseidon. Pausanias (vii. l. § 3. Comp. sued for the hands of luis daughters. Danaüs still
ii. 12. $ 2; JIerod. ii. 98) mentions, that Auto- mistrusted them and remembered the cause of his
mate and Scaea were married to Architeles and flight from his country; however he gave them
Archander, the sons of Achacus. According to his daughters and distributed them among his ne-
the Scholiast on Euripides (Ilecul. 886), the Da- phews by lot. But all the brides, with the excep-
naïdes were killed by Lynceus together with their tion of Hypermnestra murdered their husbands by
father. Notwithstanding their purification men- the command of their father. [DANAIDES. ] In
tioned in the earlier writers, later poets relate that aftertimes the Argives were called Danai. Whe
the Danajdes were punished for their crime in ther Danaüis died a natural death, or whether he
Hades by being compelled everlastingly to pour was killed by Lynccus, his son-in-law, is a point
water into a vessel full of holes. (Ov. Met. iv. 462, on which the various traditions are not agreed,
Heroid. xiv. ; Horat. Curm. iii. ll. 23; Tibull. i. but he is said to have been buried at Argos, and
3. 79; Hygin. Fub. 168; Serv. ad den. X. 497. ) his tomb in the agora of Argos was shewn there as
Strabo (viii. p. 371) and others relate, that Danaüs late as the time of Pausanias. (ii. 20. $ 4 ; Strab.
or the Danaides provided Argos with water, and ini. p. 371. ) Statues of Danaus, Hypermnestra
for this reason four of the latter were worshipped and Lynceus were seen at Delphi by Pausanias.
at Argos as divinities ; and this may possibly be (x. 10. § 2. )
(L. S. ]
the foundation of the story about the punishment
DAPHITAS or DA'PILIDAS Aapitas or
of the Danaïdes. Orid calls them by the name of Aapidas), a grammarian and epigrammatist of Tel-
the Belides, from their grandfather, Belus; and messus, of whom Suidas says, that he wrote against
Herodotus (ii. 171), following the tales of the Homer, accusing him of falsehood in saying that
Egyptians, says, that they brought the mysteries the Athenians went to the Trojan war.
of Demeter Thesmophoros from Egypt to Pelopon- a reriler of all men, and did not spare even the
nesus, and that the Pelasgian women there learned gods. He put a trick upon the Delphian oracle,
the mysteries from them.
(L. S. ) as he thought, by inquiring whether he should
DANAUS (Aavaós), a son of Belus and An- find his horse. The answer was, that he should
chinoë, and a grandson of Poseidon and Libya. find it soon. Upon this, he declared that he had
He was brother of Aegyptus, and father of fifty never had a horse, much less lost one. But the
daughters, and the mythical ancestor of the Danai. oracle proved to be true, for on his return home
(Apollod. ii. 1, § 4, dc. ) According to the com- he was seized by Attalus, the king of Pergamus,
mon story he was a native of Chemnis, in the and thrown headlong from a rock, the name of
Thebaïs in Upper Egypt, and migrated from which was IT TOS, horse. (Suid. s. v. Aaqitas;
thence into Greece. (Herod. ii. 91. ) Belus had comp. Cic. de Ful. 3; Val. Max. i. 8, ext. 8. )
given Danaüs Libya, while Aegyptus bad obtained Strabo, in speaking of Magnesia, mentions a moun-
Arabia. Danaüs had reason to think that the tain over against it, named Thorax, on which it
sons of his brother were plotting against him, and was said that Daphitas was crucified for resiling
fear or the advice of an oracle (Eustath. ad Hom. the kings in two verses, which he preserves. He
p. 37), induced him to build a large ship and to also mentions the oracle, but, of course, as playing
embark with his daughters. On his flight he first upon the word θώραξ instead of ίππος (xiv. p. 647).
landed at Rhodes, where he set up an image of The distich preserved by Sırabo is also included
Athena Lindia. According to the story in Hero- in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. iii. p.
dotus, a temple of Athena was built at Lindus by 330; Jacobs, ii. p. 39. )
[P. S. ]
the daughters of Danaüs, and according to Strabo DAPHNAEA and DAPHNAEUS (Aaminin
(xiv. p. 654) Tlepolemus built the towns of Lin- and Aaovaios), sumames of Artemis and Apollo
dus, Talysus and Cameirus, and called them thus respectively, derived from Sapon, a laurel, which
after the names of three Danaïdes. From Rhodes was sacred to Apollo. In the case of Artemis it
Danaüs and his daughters sailed to Peloponnesus, is uncertain why she bore that surname, and it
and landed at a place near Lerna, which was after- was perhaps merely an allusion to her statue being
wards called from this event Apobathmi. (Paus. made of lnurel-wood (Paus. iii. 24. § 6 ; Strab.
ii. 38. & 4. ) At Argos a dispute arose between xri. p. 750 ; Philostr. l'it
. Apollon. i. 16 ; Eu-
Danaüs and Gelanor about the government, and trop. vi. Il ; Justin. xv. 4. )
(L. S. ]
after many discussions the people deferred the de DAPHNAEUS (Aapvaios), a Syracusan, one
cision of the question to the next day. At its of the leaders of the popular party in that city
dawn a wolf rushed among the cattle and killed after the death of Diocles. He was appointed to
one of the oxen. This occurrence was to the command the troops sent by the Syracusans, toge-
Argives an event which seemed to announce to ther with their Sicilian and Italian allies, to the
them in what manner the dispute should terminate, relief of Agrigentum, when it was besieged by the
and Danaus was accordingly made king of Argos. Carthaginians, B. C. 406. He at first defeated the
Out of gratitude he now built a sanctuary of force despatched by Himilco to oppose his advance,
Apollo Lucius, who, as he believed, had sent the but was unable to avert the fall of Agrigentum,
wolf. (Paus. ii. 19. § 3. Comp. Serv. ad Aen. iv. , and consequently shared in the unpopularity caused
377, who relates a different story. ) Danaüs also by that event, and was deposed, together with the
erected two wooden statues of Zeus and Artemis, other generals, on the motion of Dionysius. As
and dedicated his shield in the sanctuary of Hera. soon as the latter had established himself in the
(Paus. ii. 19. § 6; llygin. Ful. 170. ) He is supreme command, he summoned an assembly of
further said io have built the acropolis of Argos the people, and procured the execution of Daph-
and to have provided the place with water by dig. nacus together with his late colleague, Demarchus.
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DAPHNIS.
939
DARDANUS.
{P. S. )
According to Aristotle, the great wealth of Daph- god accordingly raised him up to heaven, and
naous had made him an object of jealousy with caused a well to gush forth on the spot where this
the lower populace. (Diod. xii. 86, 87, 92, 96; happened. The well bore the name of Daphnis,
Arist. Pol. v. 5. )
(E. H. B. ] and at it the Sicilians offered an annual sacrifice.
DAPHNE (Acou), a fair maiden who is (Serv. and Virg. Ed. v. 20. ) Phylargyrius, on the
mixed up with various traditions about Apollo. same passage, states, that Daphnis tried to console
According to Pausanias (x. 5. § 3) she was an himself in his blindness by songs and playing on
Oreas and an ancient priestess of the Delphic ora- the flute, but that he did not live long after; and
cle to which she had been appointed by Ge. the Scholiast on Theocritus (viji. 93) relates, that
Diodorus (iv. 66) describes her as the daughter Daphnis, while wandering about in his blindness,
of Teiresias, who is better known by the name fell from a steep rock. Somewhat different ac-
of Manto. She was made prisoner in the war of counts are contained in Servius (ad liry. Eclog.
the Epigoni and given as a present to Apollo. A viii. 68) and in various parts of the Idyls of
third Daphne is called a daughter of the river. Theocritus.
[L. S. )
god Lndon in Arcadia by Ge (Paus. viii. 20. DAPIINIS, a Greek orator, of whom a frag-
$1; Tzetz. ad Lycoph.
DAMOʻPIIÌLUS or DEMO'PHILUS, a painter DAMOʻTELES (Aquot és). 1. A Spartan,
and modelier (plastcs) who, with Gorgasus, embel through whose treachery, according to one account,
lished the teniple of Ceres by the Circus Maximus Cleomenes was defeated by Antigonus at the bar-
at Rome with works of art in both departments, le of Sellasia, B. c. 222. (Phylarch. ap. Plut.
to which was affixed an inscription in Greck Cleom. 28 ; comp. Polyb. ii. 65, &c. ) Damoteles
verses, intimating that the works on the right is said in Plutarch to have had the office of com-
were by Damophilus, those on the left by Gorgasus. mander of the Crypteia (see Dict. of Ant. s. r. ),
(Plin. xxxv. 12. 6. 45. ) This temple was that which would quality him for the service of recon-
of Ceres, Liber, and Libera, which was vowed by noitring assigned to him by Cleomenes before the
the dictator A. Postumius, in his battle with the engagement.
Latins, B. C. 496, and was dedicated by Sp. Cassius 2. An Actolian, was one of the ambassadors
Viscellinus in B. C. 493. (Dionys. vi. 17, 94 ; Tac. whom his countrymen, by the advice of the Athe-
Inn. ii. 19. ) See DEMONIILUS. (P. S. ] nians, sent to Rome in B. c. 190 to negotiate with
DAMOʻPHILUS (Aquóqınos), a philosopher the senate for peace. He returned in the ensuing
and sophist, was brought up by Julian, who was year without having accomplished his object. M.
consul under the emperor Marcus. His writings Fulvius, the consul, having crossed over from Italy
were very numerous ; the following were found in against them, the Aetolians once more despatched
the libraries by Suidas: 1. P11661620s, the first Damoteles to Rome; but, having ascertained on
book of which was upon books worth having (Tepl his arrival at Leucas that Fulvius was on his way
åflokTÝTW Bebniwv), and was addressed to Lollius through Epeirus to besiege Ambracia, he thought
Maximus ; 2. On the Lives of the Ancients (Tepl the embassy hopeless, and returned to Aetolia.
Biwy áp xaiwv); and very many others. (Suid. We hear of him again among those who came to
8. v. ; Voss. Hist. Graec. PP. 269, 270, ed. Wes- Fulvius at Ambracia to sue for peace, which was
termann. )
[P. S. ) granted by the consul and afterwards ratified by
DAMOPHON (Aapoow), a sculptor of Mes the senate. [Damis, No. 2. ) (Polyb. xxi. 3, xxii.
sene, was the only Messenian artist of any note. 8, 9, 12, 13; Liv. xxxviii. 8. ) [E. E. )
(Paus. iv. 31. $ 8. ) His time is doubtful. Heyne DAMOʻXENUS (Aaudzevos) was an Athenian
and Winckelmann place him a little later than comic poet of the new comedy, and perhaps partly
Phidias ; Quatremère de Quincy from B. c. 340 to of the middle. Two of his plays, entitled úvtpo
B. c. 300. Sillig (Catal. Art. s. v. Demophon) ar-poi and 'EautòV Tevowy, are mentioned by Athe-
gues, from the fact that he adorned Messene and naeus, who quotes a long passage from the former,
Megalopolis with his chief works, that he lived and a few lines from the latier. Elsewhere he
about the time when Messene was restored and calls him, less correctly, Demoxenus. The longer
Megalopolis was built. (B. C. 372–370. ) Pausa- fragment was first published, with a Latin version,
nias mentions the following works of Damophon : by Hugo Grotius, in his Excerpta ex Tragoedüs et
At Aegius in Achaia, a statue of Lucina, of wood, Comoediis Graecis, Par. 1626, 4to. (Ath. i.
except the face, hands, and toes, which were of p. 15, b. , iii. p. 101, f. , xi. p. 469, a. ; Suid. s. v. ;
Pentelic marble, and were, no doubt, the only Eudoc. p. 131; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec.
parts uncovered : also, statues of Hygeia and As-i. p. 484, &c. , iv. p. 529, &c. , p. 843, &c. ) [P. S. ]
clepius in the shrine of Eileithyia and Asclepius, DANAE (Aaván). See Acrisius. We may
bearing the artist's name in an iambic line on the add here the story which we meet with at a later
base : at Messene, a statue of the Mother of the time in Italy, and according to which Danaë went
Gods, in Parian marble, one of Artemis Laphria, to Italy, built the town of Ardea, and married
and several marble statues in the temple of Ascle- Pilumnus, by whom she became the mother of
pius : at Megalopolis, wooden statues of Hermes Daunus, the ancestor of Turnus. (Virg. Aen. vii.
and Aphrodite, with faces, hands, and toes of mar- 372, 409, with Servius's note. ) (L. S. ]
ble, and a great monolith group of Despoena (i. e. DANA'IDES ( Aavaiôes), the fifty daughters of
Cora) and Demeter, scated on a throne, which is Danaus, whose names are given by Apollodorus
fully described by Pausanias. He also repaired (ii. 1. $ 5) and Hyginus (Fab. 170), though they
Phidias's colossal statue of Zeus at Olympia, the are not the same in both lists. They were be-
ivory plates of which had become loose. (Paus. iv. trothed to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, but were
31. Ś5, 6, 8, viii. 31. SS 3, 5, 37. $ 2. ) [P. S. ) compelled by their father to promise him to kill
DAMOSTRA'TIA (Aauootpatía), a courtezan their husbands, in the first night, with the swords
of the emperor Commodus, who subsequently be- which he gave them. They fulfilled their promise,
came the wife of Cleander, the favourite of the em- and cut off the heads of their husbands with the ex-
peror. (Dion Cass. Ixxii. 12; CLEANDER. ) [L. S. ] ception of Hypermnestra alone, who was married to
DAŇOʻSTRATUS (Aquóotpatos), a person Lynceus, and who spared his life. (Pind. Nem. x. 7. )
whose name appears in the title of an epigram in According to some accounts, Amymone and Berbyce
the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. ii
. 259; also did not kill their husbands. (Schol. ad Pind.
Jacobs, Anth. Graec. ii. 235), Aquootpátov åvá- Pyth. ix. 200; Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 805. )
Onua tais vúupais, but whether he was the author | Hypermnestra was punished by her father with im-
of the epigram, or the person who dedicated the prisonment, but was afterwards restored to her
statue to the nymphs, on which the epigram was husband Lynceus. The Danaides buried the corpses
inscribed, does not appear. Reiske supposed that of their victims, and were purified from their crime
he might be the same person as Demostratus, a by Hermes and Athena at the command of Zeus.
Roman senator, who wrote a poem on fishing Danais afterwards found it difficult to obtain hus-
(AMTEUTIKÁ), which is often quoted by the ancient bands for his daughters, and he invited men to
writers, and who lived in the first century after public contests, in which his daughters were given
Christ. (Jacobs, Anth. Grucc. xiii. 881; Fabric. as prizes to the victors (Pind. Ryth. ix. 117. )
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938
DANAUS.
DAPHNAEUS.
He was
Pindar mentions only forty-eight Danaïdes as hav- , ging wells. (Strab. i. p. 23, viii. p.
371; Eus
ing obtained husbands in this manner, for llyperm- tath. ad llom. p. 461. ) The sons of Aegyptus in
mestra and Amymone are not included, since the the mean time had followed their uncle to Argos ;
former was already married to Lyncens and the they assured him of their peaceful sentiments and
latter to Poseidon. Pausanias (vii. l. § 3. Comp. sued for the hands of luis daughters. Danaüs still
ii. 12. $ 2; JIerod. ii. 98) mentions, that Auto- mistrusted them and remembered the cause of his
mate and Scaea were married to Architeles and flight from his country; however he gave them
Archander, the sons of Achacus. According to his daughters and distributed them among his ne-
the Scholiast on Euripides (Ilecul. 886), the Da- phews by lot. But all the brides, with the excep-
naïdes were killed by Lynceus together with their tion of Hypermnestra murdered their husbands by
father. Notwithstanding their purification men- the command of their father. [DANAIDES. ] In
tioned in the earlier writers, later poets relate that aftertimes the Argives were called Danai. Whe
the Danajdes were punished for their crime in ther Danaüis died a natural death, or whether he
Hades by being compelled everlastingly to pour was killed by Lynccus, his son-in-law, is a point
water into a vessel full of holes. (Ov. Met. iv. 462, on which the various traditions are not agreed,
Heroid. xiv. ; Horat. Curm. iii. ll. 23; Tibull. i. but he is said to have been buried at Argos, and
3. 79; Hygin. Fub. 168; Serv. ad den. X. 497. ) his tomb in the agora of Argos was shewn there as
Strabo (viii. p. 371) and others relate, that Danaüs late as the time of Pausanias. (ii. 20. $ 4 ; Strab.
or the Danaides provided Argos with water, and ini. p. 371. ) Statues of Danaus, Hypermnestra
for this reason four of the latter were worshipped and Lynceus were seen at Delphi by Pausanias.
at Argos as divinities ; and this may possibly be (x. 10. § 2. )
(L. S. ]
the foundation of the story about the punishment
DAPHITAS or DA'PILIDAS Aapitas or
of the Danaïdes. Orid calls them by the name of Aapidas), a grammarian and epigrammatist of Tel-
the Belides, from their grandfather, Belus; and messus, of whom Suidas says, that he wrote against
Herodotus (ii. 171), following the tales of the Homer, accusing him of falsehood in saying that
Egyptians, says, that they brought the mysteries the Athenians went to the Trojan war.
of Demeter Thesmophoros from Egypt to Pelopon- a reriler of all men, and did not spare even the
nesus, and that the Pelasgian women there learned gods. He put a trick upon the Delphian oracle,
the mysteries from them.
(L. S. ) as he thought, by inquiring whether he should
DANAUS (Aavaós), a son of Belus and An- find his horse. The answer was, that he should
chinoë, and a grandson of Poseidon and Libya. find it soon. Upon this, he declared that he had
He was brother of Aegyptus, and father of fifty never had a horse, much less lost one. But the
daughters, and the mythical ancestor of the Danai. oracle proved to be true, for on his return home
(Apollod. ii. 1, § 4, dc. ) According to the com- he was seized by Attalus, the king of Pergamus,
mon story he was a native of Chemnis, in the and thrown headlong from a rock, the name of
Thebaïs in Upper Egypt, and migrated from which was IT TOS, horse. (Suid. s. v. Aaqitas;
thence into Greece. (Herod. ii. 91. ) Belus had comp. Cic. de Ful. 3; Val. Max. i. 8, ext. 8. )
given Danaüs Libya, while Aegyptus bad obtained Strabo, in speaking of Magnesia, mentions a moun-
Arabia. Danaüs had reason to think that the tain over against it, named Thorax, on which it
sons of his brother were plotting against him, and was said that Daphitas was crucified for resiling
fear or the advice of an oracle (Eustath. ad Hom. the kings in two verses, which he preserves. He
p. 37), induced him to build a large ship and to also mentions the oracle, but, of course, as playing
embark with his daughters. On his flight he first upon the word θώραξ instead of ίππος (xiv. p. 647).
landed at Rhodes, where he set up an image of The distich preserved by Sırabo is also included
Athena Lindia. According to the story in Hero- in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. iii. p.
dotus, a temple of Athena was built at Lindus by 330; Jacobs, ii. p. 39. )
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the daughters of Danaüs, and according to Strabo DAPHNAEA and DAPHNAEUS (Aaminin
(xiv. p. 654) Tlepolemus built the towns of Lin- and Aaovaios), sumames of Artemis and Apollo
dus, Talysus and Cameirus, and called them thus respectively, derived from Sapon, a laurel, which
after the names of three Danaïdes. From Rhodes was sacred to Apollo. In the case of Artemis it
Danaüs and his daughters sailed to Peloponnesus, is uncertain why she bore that surname, and it
and landed at a place near Lerna, which was after- was perhaps merely an allusion to her statue being
wards called from this event Apobathmi. (Paus. made of lnurel-wood (Paus. iii. 24. § 6 ; Strab.
ii. 38. & 4. ) At Argos a dispute arose between xri. p. 750 ; Philostr. l'it
. Apollon. i. 16 ; Eu-
Danaüs and Gelanor about the government, and trop. vi. Il ; Justin. xv. 4. )
(L. S. ]
after many discussions the people deferred the de DAPHNAEUS (Aapvaios), a Syracusan, one
cision of the question to the next day. At its of the leaders of the popular party in that city
dawn a wolf rushed among the cattle and killed after the death of Diocles. He was appointed to
one of the oxen. This occurrence was to the command the troops sent by the Syracusans, toge-
Argives an event which seemed to announce to ther with their Sicilian and Italian allies, to the
them in what manner the dispute should terminate, relief of Agrigentum, when it was besieged by the
and Danaus was accordingly made king of Argos. Carthaginians, B. C. 406. He at first defeated the
Out of gratitude he now built a sanctuary of force despatched by Himilco to oppose his advance,
Apollo Lucius, who, as he believed, had sent the but was unable to avert the fall of Agrigentum,
wolf. (Paus. ii. 19. § 3. Comp. Serv. ad Aen. iv. , and consequently shared in the unpopularity caused
377, who relates a different story. ) Danaüs also by that event, and was deposed, together with the
erected two wooden statues of Zeus and Artemis, other generals, on the motion of Dionysius. As
and dedicated his shield in the sanctuary of Hera. soon as the latter had established himself in the
(Paus. ii. 19. § 6; llygin. Ful. 170. ) He is supreme command, he summoned an assembly of
further said io have built the acropolis of Argos the people, and procured the execution of Daph-
and to have provided the place with water by dig. nacus together with his late colleague, Demarchus.
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DARDANUS.
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According to Aristotle, the great wealth of Daph- god accordingly raised him up to heaven, and
naous had made him an object of jealousy with caused a well to gush forth on the spot where this
the lower populace. (Diod. xii. 86, 87, 92, 96; happened. The well bore the name of Daphnis,
Arist. Pol. v. 5. )
(E. H. B. ] and at it the Sicilians offered an annual sacrifice.
DAPHNE (Acou), a fair maiden who is (Serv. and Virg. Ed. v. 20. ) Phylargyrius, on the
mixed up with various traditions about Apollo. same passage, states, that Daphnis tried to console
According to Pausanias (x. 5. § 3) she was an himself in his blindness by songs and playing on
Oreas and an ancient priestess of the Delphic ora- the flute, but that he did not live long after; and
cle to which she had been appointed by Ge. the Scholiast on Theocritus (viji. 93) relates, that
Diodorus (iv. 66) describes her as the daughter Daphnis, while wandering about in his blindness,
of Teiresias, who is better known by the name fell from a steep rock. Somewhat different ac-
of Manto. She was made prisoner in the war of counts are contained in Servius (ad liry. Eclog.
the Epigoni and given as a present to Apollo. A viii. 68) and in various parts of the Idyls of
third Daphne is called a daughter of the river. Theocritus.
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god Lndon in Arcadia by Ge (Paus. viii. 20. DAPIINIS, a Greek orator, of whom a frag-
$1; Tzetz. ad Lycoph.
