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of the wound, and that this town, which was built in the 
place of his burial, took his name. 
DZ:DALEON Insuvz@, two iflands of Afia, at the 
northern extremity of the gulf of Glaucus, on the coaft of 
Caria 
DEDALIA, a town of Italy, founded by Dedalas, 
oo a Steph. Byz., who fays that in bis time it was 
calle 
DADALIUM, a a of 7 on the —_— coaft, 
S.E. . Pe Na and very mount Ecno 
1 LUS, in ae ene Hiflr ry, the great an rand-ion 
eran kin Athens, and grand-fon of Eumolpus, 
or Eupalamus, or, as Ovid nee ae fon of Eupalamus, was 
eminently diflinguithed as the moft ingenious artift produced 
either in Athens or Greece. To him is afcribed the inven- 
tion of the axe, the faw, the plummet, the augre, and glue, 
and alfo of mafts and yards for fhips. He alfo carved fta- 
‘tues with fuch flill, that they fecmed to be alive, and would 
fly from one place to another, unlefa they were 
Having liberally educated Talus, called alfo 
Perdix, the fon of his fitter, the ingenuity of his nephew, 
who is faid to have invented the turning-wheel, 
ie) 
ey 
re- 
During his retreat in this iflaod, he 
is faid to have conftructed the famous labyrinth at Gnoflus ; 
and as he affifted Pafiphae, the wife of Minos, in her licen- 
tious amours, he and his ee were confined in this labyrinth ; 
‘and findiag no way of efcape, he made wings for himfelf 
with wax and ae Len of birds, and faftening 
e 
indulging the pride and wantonne 
high, fo that the fun melted the wax that faftened his wings, 
and he fell into the fea, which, according to Ovid (Trift. 1.), 
- from this circumftance been called the Icarian fea. 
From his plaftic powers Lucretius deduces an epithet, which 
he applies to the earth, in order to defcribe its vernal vege- 
tation: 
— Tibi fuaves, Dedala tellus 
. Summittit flores.’ 
rches, were 
i burning, which gave cceafion to ie name.. e fir 
in 
birth of Glycon, and the ¢ 
. Son marriage of Peace and the mother of Alex- 
WAELIKER, Jouan sche in hee ee a an 
ro at Berlin 
.D.; and another of 
Johar ceeer'l “Landolt conful of Zurich. Heinecken. 
DAMON, Aasuey, aname the ancients gave to certain 
{pirits, or genii, which they fay appeared to men, either to 
do them fervice, or to hurt them 
The Greek word, Bean is derived (according to Plato, 
in his Cratylus, p. 398. ed. Serranmi, vol. i.) from danpwr, 
DAM 
knowing, or intelli: gent 3 bat according to others from Ss 
to diftribute. See ¢ Se holiaft on Homer, Il. i 22. 
Eufebius (Prep. E 
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Either of thefe — aoe with the office 
aferibed to demons by the t heathens, as the {pirits 
entrufted with the infpe€tion ony overnment of mankind. 
For, according to the philofophers, demons held a middle 
rank between the celeftial gods and men on earth, and cara 
ried on all intercourfe between them; conveying the ad- 
refles of men to the gods, and the diviae benefits to men. 
Plutarch de Defeét. Orac. ! 
p- 202. tom. ili. ed. Serrani. Apule 
: . ed Delph. Iamblichus de Myfter. 
de ad bait 
the opinion of many, that the celeftial divinities 
did not ieiecteat felves alla in human affairs, but committed 
the entire adminiftration of the government of this lower 
crat. 
“Anguft. 
world to thefe fubaltern dates ‘* Neque enim pro majef- 
tate deum c ium fuerit, he curare.”? Apuleius de Deo 
Socratis, p. ne Cunéta cocleftium aoe numine 
& authoritate, fed demonum sa 
nifterio fieri arbitrandum eft.’ Id. 
became the objects of divine worfhip. 
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Feftivale? 
are gods, one we are to confide, an m we 
ces cae. facrifices and prayers, to render them propi- 
tiou 
Sev eral of fess Ayer sapabe held, that there were 
feveral kinds that fo them were fpiritual 
fubftances ae a more ears origin fia the human race, an 
that others had once been men. Apuleius de 
p- 684. 690. Ammonius apud Plutarch. de Defe 
P- 431. tom. it. ed. 1624. Plato in Timezo, p. 41, 42. 
69. 71.75. 
Tho fe who maintain the former of the above-mentioned 
Opinions, allege that the primary gods, whofe exiften 
8 always connected wit 
elements, and the heavenly bodies, are frequently ftyled 
demons by the ancient Gree ers, and more efpecially 
by Ho v. 3 who, as Plutarch (de Orac.) 
obferves, indifferentiy ufes thefe two words, fometimes call. 
ing the gods dzmons, and the demons gods; and indeed h 
applies both terms in the fame fentence to one de eity. (IL. xvii. 
v. 98. he profe writers alfo ufe the term aaa in the 
fame fenfe. Thus, Xenophon (Memorab. 1. i C. 3.) 
calls him the demon, who i is able to acca ‘and regulate all 
things, both at hand and at the greateft diftance, in the 
ame moment, and with the utmoft care; and who fhews 
himfelf to be unwearied, perfe&, incorruptible, adminifter~ 
ing gaiceer r than thought, and without error. The advo- 
cates of this opin nion further obferve, that the fupreme deity 
of the P. alled the greatelt demon ; _ to which ar- 
gument it has bee replied, that notwithftanding the mag- 
ieee -father and grand- eee and being of the fame 
kindred with the other gods of whom he was chief. See 
Tomer’s defcription of Jupiter in Iliad. i. v. 398. and Lu- 
n. Deor. Dialog. apud Oper. vol. i. The other Heathen 
oa. and Hefiod in | particular in his Theogony, give a 
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