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See the 2d ftanza of this paftoral ballad. 
s: Not & pine in thé grove Is thére {eén,”? &e. 
+ Shenitone, vol. 1. 
DACTYLETHRA, or ne HRA, Digitale, 
among the Ancient Phyficians, @ medicine ufe rovoke 
oe li was a : e - oe ical splat and is de- 
es, 
ee, by Strabo, lib. x. {peaks differ- 
ing to him they were called Daédyli, from 
ord as Jinger, becaufe their number was 
fingers of the hand, viz. ten; five of 
i He adds, that itis to them 
the manner of working it, 
with divers other ufeful things, and for their ufeful difcove- 
rics, they are faidto have been wor rfhipped, after their death, 
oo make their rumber more, and others lefs 
than ten. Some, again, make hen natives of Phrygia, near 
the foot of mov Ida; and others bring them from ot 
es ng to Diodorus Siculus, they the fir 
t aught the inhabit- 
ants facred rites, inttituted saliva and introduced a fet 
form of oe aia a ye who was naturally in- 
monies in G 
feen, he faye pred that ee were the fir 
had been minifters of the mother of the 
in iron ; 
gods, or ie ; and that they dwelt at the foot of mount 
Ida: and they probably derived their neice of forg- 
ing metals from the fufion of mincrals at the burning of 
mount ida. 
Tt is alfo conjecture} by fome authors, not that the Cu- 
retes and Corybantes were the fame with the Da@yli Idzi, 
but that the Curetes = Corybantes were their polterity ; 
rn in Crete, were firft called Da pap 
the Curetes ; 
dren, a were nals called Daétyli Idzi. 
clopian 
peabo only gives us the names of four of the Daétyli Idei, 
which are Salaminus, Damnanzus, oe and Acmon. 
The learned Bryant, (Ancient Mythol. vol. i.) fupp 
that they were. the fame as the aire Corpbane, Telchie 
which fee refpe& 
They were Cy- 
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« Bis patrie cecidere manus : 
Porlegerit oculis, —~’ 
quin protinus omnia 
ied ce Dactyis OM ANTIA, a fort of | 
ara on perform means of ar 
ord is vcompoted o of a Grek dxxrvatos, ring, of 
ee and a, divi 
Dadijlomaney conited principally in ee a niDg ful 
thre table, e edge 
of the letters, which 
a joined together, compofed the anfwer required. 
t the operation was preceded and a aap by fe- . 
i Tepedicoes ceremonies ; for the ring was to. 
be confecrated with a great deal of ayhee the sad 
who held it was to be clad in linen garments, to the 
fhoes; his head was to be fhaved in round ; and in his hard 
he was to hold vervain. 
appeale 
Ammianus s Macabnus gives the procefs 
at-large in his ae -ninth book. 
YLIS, in aes is a term fometimes applied 
to a {pecies of cultivated grafs, the rough cock’s-foot grafs 
where the bottom is of the retentive clay-marl kind; asd 
where other finer graffes are apt to be eed ates y the 
natural herbage. It requires to be kept clofely fed down ; 
under which circumftances it Papeaar ae an acalle nt early 
fheep feed. See Grass, and Gra s Land. 
actyiis, in Botany, (from ae oe in allu- 
Linn. 
fion to the fhape of its {pikes. ) . 35. Schreb. 
go. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.i. 4o7. Jufl. 31. Chats and order, | 
triandyia digynia. Nat. Ord. Gramina. 
Gen. Ch. Gal. Glume of two valves, containing one or 
more florets, forming an oblong compreffed pike et; its 
valves unequal, eae keeled, convex, and b ron 
one fide. Cor. Gl two ea a lowermolt larget, 
ang acute, sanie or awned other cloven, lan- 
eolate. Ned Gary a pair of PRE ee pointed fcales, tumid 
- their bafe. Stam. laments capillary, a 
than the corolla; anthers oblong, c! 
Germen ovate; ftyles two, {prea ie ft'gmas aay. 
Seeds folitary, oblong, naked, with a ie on one fide, 
clothed fora head by the permanent c 
x of two (ae bios. compreffed, keeled 
ouequ! valves 
is genus ot graffes is not one of the beft defined. It 
yx, as in D. 
not a 
w one o 
cation no means ae ditin@ from the 
bove-mentioned ee . glomerata thrives under 
“et 
fo 
m 
2 
rees. 
pas agricultural properties; but we have no authority to re- 
dit for any Soni purpofe. If ufed for fodder, 
it muft be cut while youn tender. 
DACTYLONOMY, ae TYLONOMIA, from daxruros, 
nger, and es law, the art of accounting, or numbering, 
by the finger 
The rule is ae the left thumb is reckoned 1, the index 
