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Changed her into a laurel, Apollo crowned his head with heleaves of the laurel, and for ever ordered that that tree shouldhesacred to Ins divinity.

Daphne, a daughter of Tiresias , priestess in the temple ofDelphi. She was consecrated to the service of Apollo by theEpigon:, or according to others by the goddess Tellus. She wascalled Sibyl on account of the wildness of her looks and expressionswhen she delivered oracles.

DAP HN EP11 AO I, [of xrd ai £«fv»iyayou front 1] ^acvtj, laurel,and i'iyw, to eat,] in antiquity, enthusiasts, who pretended to be in-spired, after eating leaves of laurel.

DAPI1NEPHOR1 A, a festival in honour of A " celebratedevery ninth year by the Bcrotiuns. It was then usual to adorn anolive-bough with garlands of laurel and other (lowers, and place onthe top a brazen globe, on which were suspended smaller ones. Inthe middle were placed a number of crow ns and a globe of inferiorsize, and the bottom was adorned with a saffron-coloured garment,'i'he globe on the top represented the sun or Apollo . That in themiddle was an emblem ot the moon, and the other ol the stars.The crow'iis, which were 365 in number, represented the sun’sannual revolution. This bough was carried in solemn processionby a beautiful youth of an illustrious family, and whose parentswere both living. 'I’he youth was dressed in rich garments whichreached to the ground, his hair hung loose and dishevelled, hishead was covered with a golden crown, and he wore on his feetshoes called Iphicratidtr, from lphicrales an Athenian, who firstinvented them. He was called Daphnephorus, laurel-

bearer ; and at the time executed the office of priest of Apollo .

DAPPLE-BAY, in the manege, an epithet applied to bayhorses that have marks of a dark bay.

Dapple-black is applied to a black horse, that has got spots ormarks more black or shining than the rest of his skin.

DAPS, a river of Denmark, which runs into the Little Belt ,14 miles N. E. of Jladersleben.

DARAI1, or DBAS, a country of Africa , bounded on the N.by Morocco , Gezul.i, and Tablet, on the E. and the S. by Za-Jiara, and on the W, by Sus. It takes its name from the river Da-rah, or Dras, which passes through it. The principal produce isindigo and dates.

DARAM POO RY, a town of Ilindostan, in the Mysore coun-try, 88 miles E. of Seringapatam .

DARANTASIA, now Mgusteers, in ancient geography, atown ofthe Centrcnes, in Gallia Narbonensis , between Lemincumand Augusta Pretoria, called Forum Claudii by the Romans.Moustiers .

DARAPORUM, a town of Hindostan, 36 miles E. S. E. ofCoimbetore.

IJARAPTI, among logicians, one of the modes of syllogisms ofthe third figure, whose premises are universal affirmatives, and theconclusion is a particular affirmative: thus,

Dvr- Every body is divisible ;

ap- Every body is a substance;

ti- Therefore, some substance is divisible. *

DAR DA, a town and fort of Lower Hungary, 30 miles S.of Baes.

DARDANELLES, two ancient and strong castles of Turkey ,ene of which is in Romania, and the other in Natolia , on each sideofthe canal, formerly called the Hellespont .

D ARDAN1,1. the ancient inhabitants of Troas : 2. the people ofPardania, whoare supposed to have been descended from the former.

DARDANIA, in ancient geography, 1. a district of MocsiaSuperior on the S. now the S. part of Servia, towards the confinesof Macedonia and lllyricum: 2. a small district of'Proas, alongthe Hellespont : 3. the ancient name of Samotliraeia ; from Dar-danc.s, who removed thither.

DAR DAN IS, DAR DANIUM, or DARDANIUM PRO-MONTOR1UM, a promontory of Troas, near Abydos , runningout into the Hellespont .

DAR DAN US, a sou of Jupiter and Electra, who after thedeath of his brother Jason, left Samothrace his country, and mass-ed into Asia Minor, where he married Balia, the daughter of Teu-cer, king of Teucria. After the death of his father-in-law, hereigned sixty-two wears.

D AREA, in botany, a genus ofthe cryptogamia filices class andorder. Fructification in scattered nearly marginal lines: involucreoriginating laterally from a vein, opening towards the margin.There are nine species.

PARKL HAM AHA, a town of Africa , in the kingdom ot Fez.Lon, 6. 35. 'SV. Lat. 84. 20. N.

DARIC, in antiquity, a famous piece of gold, first coined by-Darius the Mede, about B. C. 538 ; probably during his stay atBabylon, out of the vast quantity of gold which had been accumu-lated in the treasury, l'rom thence the darics were Dispersedover the east, and into Greece ; where they were alsocalled stateres,and were the gold coins best known in Athens in ancient times.According to Dr. Bernard, the daric weighed two grain*, morethan our guinea; but as it was very fine, and contained little alloy,it may be reckoned worth about 25s-. sterling.

DARIEN, or TERRA FIRMA PROPER, is the northerndivision of Terra Firma, or Castile del Oro. It is a narrow isth-mus, that, properly speaking, joins North and South America to-gether; hut is generally reckoned as part of the latter. It isbounded on the N. by the gulf of Mexico ; on the S. by theSouth Sea; on the E. by the river or gulph of Darien; and onthe W. by another part of the South Sea, and the province of Ve-ragua. It lies in the form of a bow or crescent, at,out the greatbay of Panama , in the South Sea, and is 300 miles in length. Itsbreadth has generally been reckoned 60 miles from N. to S. butit is only 37'miles bro.ul from Porto Bello to Panama , the twothief tow ns of the province.

Darien, Gulf of, an arm of the sea running eastward into theIsthmus, on the W. side of St. Sebastian .

Darien, a town of the United States , in Liberty county,Georgia, 47 miles S.S.W. of Savannah .

DARH, in logic, one of the modes of syllogism of the firstfigure, wherein the major proposition is an universal affirmative,and the minor and conclusion particular affirmatives: thus,

Da- Every tiling that is moved, is moved by another;

ri- Some body is moved;

i- Therefore, somebody is moved by another.

DARKENED ROOM, the same as camera obscura; being aroom darkened all but in one littie hole, having a convex glass init to transmit the rays of outward objects to a piece of paper, orwhite cloth in the room.

DARK TENT, a portable camera obscura, resembling a desk,and fitted with optic glasses, to take prospects of landscapes, &c.

DARKING, a town of Surrey , 10 miles E. of Guilford, and24 S.S. VV. of London .

DARKNESS, Egyptian. One of the most terrible sorts of dark-ness was that which God by Moses brought upon Egypt , as a plagueto the inhabitants of it. The Septuagint, our translation of theBible, and indeed most others, in explaining Moses ’s account ofthis darkness, render it “ a darkness which may be feltand theVulgate has it, “ a palpable darkness;” that is, a darkness eonssisting of black vapours and exhalations, so condensed that theymight be perceived by the organs of seeing or feeling; but somecommentators think that this is carrying the sense too far, since insuch a medium as this mankind could not live an hour, much lessfor the space of three days, as the Egyptians are said to have done,during ttie time this darkness lasted ; and therefore they imagine,that instead of a darkness that may he felt, the Hebrew phrasfemay signify a darkness wherein men went groping and feelingabout for every thing they wanted, l.e Clcro is of this opinion,and thinks that Philo, in his life of Moses , understood the passageiu its right sense. “ For ill this darkness (says he), whoever werein bed, durst not get up; and such as their natural occasions com-pelled to get up, went feeling about by the walls, or any thing theycould lay hold oil, as if they had been blind.” What it was thatoccasioned this darkness, whether it was in the air or in the eyes ;whether it was a suspension of light from the sun in that country,or a black thick vapour which totally intercepted it, it would be Invain to conjecture.

Darkness, Extraordinary, at our Saviour’s Crucifix-ion. During the last three Flours that our Saviour hung uponthe cross, a darkness covered the face of the earth, to the great ter-ror and amazement of the people present at his execution. Thisextraordinary alteration in the face of nature (says Dr. Mac-knight,in his Harmony of the- Gospels), was peculiarly proper, whilst theSun of righteousness was withdrawing his beams from the land ofIsrael and from the world ; not only because it was a miraculoustestimony horn by God himself to his innocence; but also becauseit was a lit emblem of his departure and its effects, at least till Ids

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