DANDOLO 



one part of common chocolate and four part* of the 

 IMiwder of dandelion-root. The young leaves, when 

 blanched, are a good salad, resembling lettuce or 

 endive. 



Dan dolo, a famous Venetian family, which 

 gave four doges to the republic. The most illus 

 trious of it-* members \\ ;ls Knrico, born alxmt 1110 

 or lll.'> \.i>. Kmineut in learning, eloquence, and 

 knowledge of affairs, he ascended from one step to 

 another, until, in 1173, he was sent as ambassador 

 to Constantinople, and in 115)2 was elected doge. 

 In this latter capacity he extended the bounds of 

 the republic iii Istria and Dal mat ia, defeated the 

 1'isans, and, in 1201, marched at the head of the 

 crusaders. He sulxlued Trieste and Zara, the 

 coasts of Albania, the Ionian Islands, and Con- 

 stantinople, 17th July 1203. When the Emperor 

 Alexius was murdered by his own subjects, Dan- 

 dolo laid siege to Constantinople, and took it by 

 storm, 13th April 1204. He established there the 

 empire of the Latins, and caused Count Baldwin of 

 Flanders to be chosen emperor. By his exertions 

 Venice obtained possession of several Greek islands 

 and large territories in Greece. Dandolo died at 

 Constantinople, 1st June 1205. See CRUSADES, 

 VENICE. Giovanni Dandolo was doge, 1280-89; 

 Francesco, 1328-39; Andrea, 1342-54. 



Dandy Dilution t. See TERRIER. 



Dandy Fever. See DENGUE. 



Dail'ebrog ( ' the Danish banner ' ) is the name 

 of the secona in dignity of the Danish orders 

 instituted by King Waldemar in 1219. 



Danegeld, a tax levied on land, originally to 

 buy off the Danes. It was first raised by Ethelred 

 II., was abolished by Edward the Confessor, 

 reimposed at a higher rate by the Conqueror, and 

 finally abolished under Henry II. 



Dane-high ( Danelaw or Denalagv ), the name 

 applied to that part of England in which Danish 

 influence was at one time paramount, and which 

 still shows in the blood of the natives and in 

 popular place-names a distinct Danish impression. 

 At various times it ranged along the coast counties 

 from Yorkshire to Essex. The southern part of the 

 old province of Deira was the most thoroughly 

 Danish part of the whole district, and here the 

 typical Danish endings for place-names, thorpe, 

 caster, and by, are still the most common. Next to 

 Yorkshire came Lincoln, with Lindsey for its 

 centre. The least Danish part of the Dane-lagh 

 was East Anglia and Essex. Deira and Lindsey 

 were divided into ridings or trithings, and these 

 again into wapeitiakct, like the hundreds of southern 

 counties. Set; NORTHMEN, ENGLAND. 



Danes' Dyke. See FLAMBOROUGH HEAD. 



Dailfferfield, THOMAS (1650-85), an accom- 

 plice of Titus Oates (q.v.). 



DdlltfS, THE, a hilly tract within the limits of the 

 presidency of I.ombav, in 20 22' 21 5' N. lat., and 

 73 28' 73 52' E. long., with an area of about 1000 

 sq. m., and a |M>pulation of 50,000, belonging ftlmoct 

 entirely to the \\ild forest tribes. Densely wooded 

 and shut in by steep hills, with a heavy rainfall 

 and a close atmosphere, the country is singularly 

 unhealthy. It is ruled by fifteen petty chiefs, with 

 from 134 to 14,205 subjects respectively. The 

 Hhils (q.v.) are the most important tril>e ; they 

 have charge of the police and of the district trea- 

 suries. The only important products are the teak 

 and other timber-trees. 



Daniel (Heb., 'God is judge') is mentioned 

 by Ezekiel (6th century B.C.), along with Noah 

 and Job, as a great example of righteousness 

 and wisdom ( Ezek. xiv. 14, 20, and xxviii. 3 ). 

 According to the book which bears his name, he 

 was one of the Jews carried away to Babylon in 



DAMKL 



671 



the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judali, and gained 

 a high position at the court of Nebuchadnezzar, 

 which he maintained also under Dariu* and CyniN, 

 notwithstanding ail the intrigue* of hostile 

 courtiers. The Ixmk stands in our Bible, an well 

 as in the LXX. and Vulgate, immediately after 

 K/.ekiel, while in the Hebrew canon it is not 

 included in the collection of the Prophets, but 

 appears among the miscellaneous 'Writings' (gee 

 BIBLE). Delitzsch points out that the book no- 

 where claims to be written by Daniel, arid that it 

 position in the canon shows that it is not properly 

 a prophetic book, but an ajuicalypse. It is written 

 partly in Hebrew, partly in Aramaic, but forms a 

 coherent whole, which is now divided into twelve 

 chapters, the first half consisting of narrative, the 

 second half of predictions. These predictions are 

 not prophetic speeches like those or the other pro- 

 phetic scriptures, rebuking the sins of contempo- 

 raries, foretelling judgment on the impenitent, and 

 promising Messianic salvation to the repentant and 

 believing ; they are minutely detailed apocalyptic 

 visions embracing the history of four successive 

 world-empires the Chaldean, the Median, the 

 Persian, and the Greco-Macedonian culminating 

 in the establishment of the eternal kingdom of 

 the saints of the Most High. Objections to the 

 Danielic authorship of the l>ook were made by the 

 Neoplatonist Porphyry as early as the 3d century 

 A.D. , but first found support in the critical investi- 

 gations of Bertholdt (1806-8), followed by those of 

 Tileek, De Wette, Langerke, Ewald, Liicke, and 

 others. These investigations have led to the view 

 that the book was not written till the time of 

 the religious persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes, 

 about 168-165 B.C. But the book is certainly 

 of great importance, ami 'has exercised,' says 

 Schiirer, ' a profound influence upon the form 

 of the Messianic idea. ... In this book (xii. 2) 

 the hope in a resurrection of the body is for the 

 first time plainly and decidedly expressed. The 

 Messianic hope is here the hope of a glorious 

 future for the nation, but with the double modi- 

 fication that the future kingdom of Israel is con- 

 ceived of as a universal kingdom, and that all 

 the saints who have died will snare in it.' Accord- 

 ing to Delitzsch, our Lord's testimony in Matt, 

 xxiv. 15 proves 'that Dan. ix. 26, et seq., is a 

 prophecy of the desecration of the temple in the 

 Roman war, not that it is a prophecy then fulfilled 

 for the first time.' See Hilgenfeld, Die Judische 

 Apokalyptik (1857), and the special commentaries 

 by Hitzig (1850), Auberlen (3d ed. 1874), Hilgen- 

 feld (1863), Caspari (1869), Pusey (1864), Desprez 

 (1879), and Robinson (1882). 



Daniel* SAMUEL, poet, was the son of a 

 music-master, and was born in 1562 near 

 Taunton, Somersetshire. He entered Magdalen 

 Hall, Oxford, in 1579, but 'his glory being more 

 prone to easier and smoother studies than in iR-ck- 

 ing and hewing at logic,' quitted the university 

 without taking a degree. He was some time tutor 

 at Wilton to William Herbert, son of the Earl of 

 Pembroke and Sir Philip Sidney's sister: after- 

 wards at Skipton to Anne Clifford, daughter of 

 the Earl of Cumberland. In 1603 he was appointed 

 to read new plays, and twelve years later lie had 

 for some time charge of a company of young 

 players at Bristol. In 1607 he became one of the 

 queen's grooms of the privy chamber. Towards 

 the close of his life he retired to a farm which he 

 possessed at Beekington, in his native oountv, 

 where he died in October 1619. Daniel was highly 

 praised by his contemporaries, as Lodge, Carew, 

 Drummond of Hawthornden, although Ben Jonson 

 described him as 'a good honest man . . . but no 

 poet,' and Drayton quotes the opinion of some wise 

 men that he was ' too much historian in verse, 1 



