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-
DACIA
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