Daĭphron, a son of Ægyptus, killed by his wife, &c. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Daīra, one of the Oceanides, mother of Eleusis by Mercury. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 38.
Daldia, a town of Lydia.
Dalmatius, one of the Cæsars in the age of Constantine, who died A.D. 337.
Dalmătia, a part of Illyricum, at the east of the Adriatic, near Liburnia on the west, whose inhabitants, called Dalmatæ, were conquered by Metellus, B.C. 118. They chiefly lived upon plunder, and from their rebellious spirit were troublesome to the Roman empire. They wore a peculiar garment called Dalmatica, afterwards introduced at Rome. Horace, bk. 2, ode 1, li. 16.—Lampridus, Commodus, ch. 8.—Strabo, bk. 7.—Ptolemy, bk. 2.
Dalmium, the chief town of Dalmatia. Strabo, bk. 7.
Damagetus, a man of Rhodes, who inquired of the oracle what wife he ought to marry? and received for answer the daughter of the bravest of the Greeks. He applied to Aristomenes, and obtained his daughter in marriage, B.C. 670. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 24.
Damălis, a courtesan at Rome in the age of Horace, bk. 1, ode 36, li. 13.
Damas, a Syracusan in the interest of Agathocles. Diodorus, bk. 19.
Damascēna, a part of Syria near mount Libanus.