MS DAAE. on Um Dtba a lioa'a hud. (HrsjcUna, «. v. Kv- funtml I Suidiii, J. b. Ki^iKqnl OTBrq^T.) The h«d ig snpposed tobathUof Cjbek. Therilnsof the cdn wu 28 AUio dnchaiu. (Dem. m /%>niL p. 914.) The aatomnoui ohoi of Cjiicos an >dd to b* rare, bnt thure is a ampletB sme* of Empoia] ci^m. It don Dot appear where the C^ztceoi gal eir gold fram, bat it ia iM improbable that it wa« ce foDsd 00 the itUn} or on the ndgfabooring maio- rt that then was in hie . I which the architect had a goiden thnod along all the joJiuDga of the poUahtd MOM. The untiait between the gold and the whita nutUe woold ptobaUj jrodocc a good i&ct The fMsage of PGnf containa aociMthiiig mm abont Cjiicoi, ud the atoiy rf Um " higilinu lacia,' which waa Oica the anchor of the Aj^tmaataa. The atone cAao nn uray finn the Prytaoniin, till at last tb«7wisel7 aecnnd it irith lat-l. [Q.L.] once (busd on the itlaid or on the : a-tV land. Plmj (xuTi. ft) eaji th / time a tem^ at Cjziciis,^ whic DAAE. [Daius.] DADANAS (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.) TE. 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- 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.] DADRONA, a riTcr in Ireland, mentioned by Pto- lemy aa being th* first river after the Sootbon ?n>- =WoQt [R G. L.] DACHABETn (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.) fG. W.] DACHINABADE8 (Aax-nfOur, PeriiJ. Jmd. p. S9), a dinrict of ■■ India intra Gangam," on tlw NW. coast oC the pemnsoia of HindoMaD, a little to tbe&ofBaiygauorAroaiA It is staled b; the anthor of the Perfplos that it was so called bteanae DaUus, in the natiie Imgna, riguified sonth. Dakhinabades, acoording to this view, would be a purely Indian wnd, and would mean " dty <if the loath. Dakhan, however, in which ws nmgnise the wall-known niodnn name Deecan, is not praperly the Kiatb: it is derived from the Sanscrit Dakahina, meaning the country en the right hand, and wai ta named by the Hindu oatquerva, who ffitea^i India ban the MW. The dlitiict of Dakhinahades ccn- twned two emporia, Flitbana and Tagars. [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. Tha GcTAB (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 modem 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
