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on the other a lion's head. (Hesychius, s. v. (Greek characters); Suidias, s. v. (Greek characters).) The head is supposed to be that of Cybels. The value of the coin was 28 Attic drachmae. (Dem. in Phorm. p. 914.) The autonomous coins of Cyzicus are said to be rare, but there is a complete series of imperial coins. It does not appear where the Cyziceni got their gold from, but it is not improbable that it was once found on the island or on the neighbouring mainland. Pliny (xxxvi. (illegible text) that then was in his time a temple at Cyzicus, in which the architect had placed a goiden thread along all the joinings of the polished stone. The contrast between the gold and the white marble would probably produce a good effect. The passage of Pliny contains something more about Cyzicus, and the story of the "fugitivus lapis," which was once the anchor of the Argonantae. The stone often ran away from the Prytanium, till at last they wisely secured it with lead. [ G. L. ]

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'DABANAS (iatarit), cne of JoalJmtui'g fir- tnaaa, litaated between Dan and Amida (Procop. de Aid. ii, 4), wbich eome of the tna^e confound with Daraha (Ammian. TTJii , 3, g 7}^ which lies much further S. at the aourca of the river Beliar. The liM haa not been identified. (Bitter, fnttinde, »ol. I, p. 1124, vol.ii. pn82, 381.) [ E. B. J. ]

DABASAE (Aotaffoi, Ptol. Tii. 2. g IB), a people of the district called by the ancieata "India mtrs Gangem," to the east of NtpAL There is eooie doubt about the orthographj of their neme, which is sisihv- timea written Labasac They are probably cmnected with the range of mDuutains called ri Aifuimra fy^ (PtoL vii, 2. § 18), and which are most likely re- pnRDted hj the eaeton spur of the Nipdl Hi- [ V. ]

DABERATH (A(i«if>^,LXX.; a . ..-.. , iatiipi,Eiaeh.), a border dtj of thetiibe of Zebnlon (JoiA.iii. 12), apparentlj identical with the Leritical city Dabareb (AeMd. LXX. ; JoiK ui. 28). and with Debir in 1 Chnm. tI. SS, though in tfacse passaina it is reckoned to the tribe of lasachar, as is also Daberath in I Chnm. vi. 72 (Arfipl, LXX.). Ita site is maiked by the email Moeleni villa^^ of ZleMriaA, which is litnaCod at the NW. base of Mount Tabor, on a ledge of rocks, thus answering to the descrip- tion given by Enaebios and St. JeronH of the aitu- atjon of Dabeiia, as a town of the Jewi on Mount Tabor, in the district of Diocwearda. (Ooomail- «.e.; Beland.iWoutp. 733.) Dr. Robinnoi further ideatifiea with it the Dabaritta of JcMphna in the gnat plun {Bib. Set. vol iiL p. 210), but thia is very quotiooable. [ G. W. ]

DABRONA, a river in Ireland, mentioned by Ptolemy as being the first river after the Southern Pro-

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montory (Cape Clear)-probably the Blackwater, in respect to the name as well as locality; since =black.

DACHAE'NI (baxvimO, an inland tribe iJ Arabia Felix, acccoiling to Ptolemy (vi 7) identified with the Nabathaeans by EuaCathitii (ad IHonft. Per. BS4). Fciator ooojcctnies that they ut ideo- tical with the tribe d the Dies Oiaiv, jwrt it the great Haib naticn, found by Buickhaidt war iIh Oi^and iUejids tribes, between Aa%jl and JfoUo, and also in the vidnity of Medina. (AmAu, voL ii- p. 141.) [ G. W. ]

DACHINABADES ((Greek characters) ind. p. 29), a district of "India intra Gangam," on the NW. coast of the peninsula of Hindostan, a little to the S. of Baiygaza or Beroach. It is staled by the author of the Periplus that it was so called because Dakhan, in the native tongue, signified south. Dakhinabades, according to this view, would be a purely Indian word, and would mean " city of the south." Dakhan, however, in which we recognise the wall-known modern name Deecan, is not properly the Kiatb: it is derived from the Sanscrit Dakshina, meaning the country en the right hand, and was so named by the Hindu conquers, who entered India from the NW. The district of Dakhinahades con- tained two emporia, Plithana and Tagara. [ V. ]

DA'CIA (Auici : Eth. and Adj. AcEm, Dacna, Dadcus). Thia country, the East of the Eaaan conqnota in Europe, cm only be ooaidered ai f.., .._ =-j,(jng ,j„ jm^ (f , ■n, Strab. TiL p. 895), with the empire by Trajan, wh« it receiivd colain definite lunite.

The Getae (rfrai, ling. iVmi, Sleph. B.) went in antiquity ennnerated amcng the Thradan group of nations ; and this o^duion has been coofimud bj tha most competent among modern inqnirci. (Scha- hrik, Sae. AtLtdi.L p. 31.) It need hardly be added, that Uie (luory wluch iCKardad the Gelae and the "long-haired" Goths i^ Souidioaria u equiralent names, thoogh supported by Pracopins, Jerome, Vopiscus, and Spartian, but, above all, by Jomandea (0e Rd. Osl.), is entirely devoid of foundation. Tbe seat of this people ae they fint appcsr in hiitai7 moat be placid to the N. of Ul and S. of the Ister. If we may trust He-

iv, 92, ftJL V. 3), the Getae were »operi.T

her Thradan barhariana. Our knowladga of the later Dadans partly cmfirms thia atalement, however much Grecian imaginatico might colour his sketch, or have originated Uie fablea connected with „ lua ddty Zalmolu or Zamoliis. Thn- cydida (ii.96) describee them ae living in the same district as that which they occupied when ccnquend by Dardns, and they were among the Iriba who fol- lowed StalcfB to the field. In the expedition of Philip againat Scythia (Justin, ii. S), the TribaJU, 'ho had not long before been driven oot of their ncient seats iu tlia interior by the irraptim of the Kelte, occuped the steppe between the Danube and n. It would seem that the Getae bad been forced acnn the river by the Triballi, as Alei- mder, in the campaign of B.C. 335, found the Gelae anged upon the oppceite ude of the later to the lumber of upwards of 10,000 foot and 4000 hone- nen. Under fiivoor of night. Alexander emned over he river umnoleeted, defeated the Geta^ and took beir town. (Arrian, Anai. I 2; Strab. p. 301.) n II. c. 292, Lydmachua, in tha aggreadve warliia ihieh bo waged against the Oetae, ptoebited inta