DAD 
2, and fo onto the right thumb, which is the tenth, and 
of conlequence is dencted by the cypher o 
. TYLS, in Botany, denotes the fruit of the palm- 
tree, ae ufualiy cailed dates. 
DA LUS, in Antiquity, a fort of dance among. the 
crag chielly performed, as Hefychius obferves, by the 
ath 
ee TYLUS, in ee a aipecie of Pholas, in the clafs of 
Permes age a, See Px —Alfo, a {pecies of Voluia, 
in the = clafs. See Vee 
yLus Ldeus, in eee Hiftory, a name given by 
many on to the BELEMNITES ; fuppofed erroneoufly by 
many to be the fae of the ancients. 
DADACA RDIM, in aaah, a town of Afiatic 
prelate in the province of Diarbekir ; 60 miles S. of Di- 
arbe 
AD I, a town of Afiatic beetle in the province of 
Nato ta, 40 les EK, of Am 
DARI,-a iowa of Hindvotn, in the country- of 
Delhi; o. miles W. of Del 
DADASTANA, in ae Geography, a town of Afia 
Minor, in Bithynia, at nearly an equal diitance between Ancyra 
and Nice; where, according to Zofimus, the emperor Jovian 
. died Feb. 17, A. D. 364, It ea se le from Ga- 
latia, according to Arminianus Marcellin 
DADDALA, a place ae o Minor, in Lycia. Ptol. 
_ DADDI, Bernarpvo, i graphy, a cae poh of 
farezzo, who was the fcholar ey ee ello, and bec mem- 
ber of the company of painters at Florence, i in 13 
painted the chzpels of S. Lorenzo and S. Stefano de Pulei, 
together with other works in the church of Santa Croce in 
that city. Little elfe is known of him except that he died 
i Baldinucei,. 
pi, Cosimo, a Florentine painter of the 16th and 
17th a who was a difciple of Batiita Naidin i, and 
was al aaa in man sh alee e works by the court of 
"Tufca i ee e painted in the Coriile of the 
Fl 
wife poffels feveral altar- «pieces of confiderable merit by his 
hand, and he was much eltecmed for his portraits, which 
eaeally ahaa ftriking likeneffes. THe died at an ad- 
vanced age, in 1630, having had the honour to inftruét Bal- 
daffare Francefchini, eee . Volterrano, in the firft rudi- 
ments of his art. Baldinu 
DADELER, ia Geogr: a. a town of Afiatic ened 
in the He of Caramania; 12 miles N. of Co 
a town_of Germany, in the circle cE Wett- 
phalia, a county of Say By near which are fome mines of 
copper; 8 miles 8. of Sie 
D ES eens M, in Ancient Geography, a pro- 
montory in the fouthern part of the ifleof Cyprus, between 
the promontory Curias to the weft, and that of Pedalium to 
the eaft. Prol, 
DADICA, a people 
Vili, 66.) lived in vicinity of Sogdiana ; 
armed like the 
DAD 
e who, according to Herodotus (1. 
and who were 
AN, in Gexgraphy a tog of — about 4 or 
-5 leagues in circum een Schiras and Lar, co- 
vered with t pene ye ons, and is megranates, to 
which the Engl a Dutch merchants of Ormus generally 
retire in the fumm 
DLE EWALLET, a town in Africa, in the king- 
.dom of ae 
, in " ArchiteBture, the middle of a pedeftal, or that 
part one es between the bafe and the cornice. In 
DZD 
the pedeSals of the orders this part has nearly a cubical form, 
whence it derives its name dado, Italian, for di 
Dano, in le A a fictitious artift, to whom feveral 
excellent prints of the 16th century, Hee with a die, have 
been attributed. Many connoiffeurs, however, confider Bit 
plates to have been the work of Niccolo Deus: Hei 
necken, 
DOU, in eae : et river of France, in the 
sal ple of the Tar its pate near Saint Salvy, 
nto the river ye he low Lava 
DADUBR A, Danisra,or Dadybras, in Arce ae 
bly. an epifcopal town of Alia M'nor, in Paphlagor 
oe HI, in dntiquity, priefts ot oe See 
go 
Crr 
That goddefs, having loft her daughter Proferpine, fay 
mythologilts, began to make fearch for her at the beginning 
of the night. In order to do this in the dark, fhe lighted 
a torch, et thus fet forth on her ie throughout the 
wor! ch reafon it is, that fhe is always feen repre- 
fented ge a lighted torch in her han 
this eccount, and in commemoration of this pretended 
exploit, it became a cuftom for the priefts, at the feafts and 
facrifices of this goddefs, to run about in the temple, with 
ia: after this manner: one of them took a lighted torch 
m off the al tar, and holding it with his hand, ran with it 
to a certain part of the temple, where he gave it to another, 
ela to him, Zidi trado; this fecond ran after the like 
» to another Lay of the tempse, and gave it to the 
ced, a fo of the 
From this concn ‘the priefts became spate da- 
duchi, dadsxor, q. d. torch are m des, an uous 
and refinous wood, as pine, fir, Ke. so henae the ancients 
made torches; and ex», tine L hold. 
e can ali gave the name daduchus to the high- 
prieft of Hereu 
D in yee Geograph yy a 
an 
A eee of Afia, near 
to panes and almoit E. of it, co) 
ufiae 
d S.W. of Anthe- 
5 
LA, in Antiquity, two ae in Beotia, one 
of which was cbferved annually by the Plateans at Alalco- 
menus, where was the largeft ae in all Beeotia. Here 
they affembled, and expofing to the open air pieces of fodden 
flefh, carefully obferved whither the crows that came to 
aa Ais them took their flight, and then hewed down all 
ees on which any of them alighted, and formed them 
fie ates, which by the ancient Greeks were called deda/la, 
“The other coasuule was by far the greateft and moft re- 
markable of the wo; being celebra ted only o 
lafted that number of years. 
in it, fee Paufan. P. 302. in Boeot. and Pott. Archeol. 
Gra. _ il. cap. 2 
A, in Ancient Geography, a country of India, the 
inhabitants of which abandoned it, and fled for fhelter to the 
the Ganges, in the country of the Cafpirians; lat. 30° 30’, 
—Alfo, a town of the ifland of Crete. Steph. Byz.—Alfo, 
a mountain of Lycia.—Alfo, a caftle, according to Livy 
and Mela, or, as Phny fays, a town, of Afia Minor, in 
ae fituated i in the northern part of the gulf of ete 
» about a 
pe lat. 36° so’ or 55’. Steph 
Byzantius fays, ‘that Dedalus, being ttung by a ae died 
6 of 
a 
