“Now Dædalus, behold, by fate assigned,
A task proportioned to thy mighty mind.”
Pope.
Da′gon. A god of the Philistines, half man half fish, like the mermaid. Milton describes him as “Upward man and downward fish.”
Da′hak. The Persian devil.
Dai′tyas. In Hindoo mythology the devils or evil gods.
Dan′æ was a daughter of Acrisius and Eurydice. She had a son by Jupiter, who was drifted out to sea in a boat, but was saved by Polydectes and educated.
Dana′ides, see Danaus.
Dana′us, King of Argos, was the father of fifty daughters, who, all but one, at the command of their father, slew their husbands directly after marriage. For this crime they were condemned to the task of for ever trying to draw water with vessels without any bottoms. See Hypermnestra.
Dancing, see Terpsichore.