” 
-of Ariftotle; fome of the 
DAC 
e. He tranflated the works of Horace into French 
profe; the meditauons of Marcus Antoninus ; 3 the Poetics 
A cate mitted a member of 
the academy of Inferiptions, ae ea ards was hea per- 
petual fecretary to the French academy. as likewife 
keeper of the cabinet of Louvre; ee fas prow bid 
than a thoufand culogia, that he was a man of great worth, 
and unfullied integrity. He died in 1722. e on ae 
part in the carol Hittory of Lewis XIV., for which ie 
received a penfion. 
: t 
einen as editor iad _dmmentator 
of the ancient claffice 4 in both languages. One 
udtions a dedicated to the king, which hea re- 
cea to receive from the hands a proteftant ; the duke 
w 
an early age fhe becam 
of aH 
tre ayo 
ufband openly 
avowed foon ihe their res was a tranflator as 
well as editor. Ariftophanes, Naser and Homer, were 
all rendered into French by this lady, fome of which 
have been frequently reprinted and difplay much merit. 
Notwithwithfanding the high i doar to which fhe at- 
tained in the literary world, fhe was far from laying claim to 
any fuperiority on that secount: fhe was modeft and’ unaf- 
Pp 
fon of great promife, and of a a pain ne the forti- 
tude of a hero, and the refiguation of ue Chriftian. She 
died j in 1720, ack efteemed and anne: by all who knew 
her 
ACIO, in Geography, the laft rae in the kingdom 
ie tly, on the borders of Switzer and more particu- 
rly of the canton of the re near ae inte of Chia- 
venna. 
DACIRA, in pari Geography, a town of Mefopotamia ; 
called by fome Dia 
DACKENEM, or » Dacoesnans) in art , a town 
of Flanders, eight miles north-eaft of Ghen 
DACOLITHUS, in Jchthyology, a oe of Cobitis. 
See Cositis Tenia. 
DACRYDIUM, in — (from daxpy, atear, or 
gummy diftillation from atree.) Solander in fa . roe 
Efculent. 80, and Fl. Inf. Auftr. Prod. Taube 
Pin. 93. t. 41. Clafs and order, diecia jeanne: Nat. 
Ord. Conifera, Juil. 
en. Ch. Male flowers forming an ovate terminal catkin. 
Cal. the {cales of the catkin heart-fhaped, pointed; bears 
. . en 
lary affection, and exhibited in the lofs of 4 
DAC 
ing the anthers. Cor. none. Stam. Filaments none; an- 
thers two to each {cale, pence orbicular, of two valves. 
Female flowers on a diftin@ plant, eel terminal. f. 
Cor. and Style unknown. Nut ovate, encompaffed at the 
bafe by a dilated, firm, cup-fhaped pecentael e, and con- 
taining one feed. 
fi. Ch. Male. 
two feffile —— 
cup-fhaped receptacle. 
Dacrydium or ee is figured in captain ae fecond 
voyage, tab. 51, under the name of the Spruce Fir of New 
Zealand. It is faid to form large forefts in the eet 
part of that country, to yield valuable timber, and to af. 
da kind of f{pruce beer. The leav 
Calyx the fcale of a catkin, bearing 
Female. Nut ovate, feated in a 
DACTYL, Dace a foot nthe Latin and Greek. 
peer confifting of a long Giisble, ‘followed by two fhort. 
es: as carminé ; and tenderly, haftily, in the Englith lan-. 
ne fay it is derived fom OxnTvAes, a nger, becaufe it is 
rete ~ three joints, the firit of which is longer than the. 
other tw 
The daétyl i is faid to have been the invention of Dionyfius 
or Bacchus, who delivered oracles in this meafure at Del. 
‘The Greeks call it wodsrixos. 
» ftrong, a eady pace, 
like a trot: the day] enples the alee ftrokes of a 
gallop. Pafflages in which the daétyl abounds afford a 
found, which is evidently and Faeroe | an echo to the 
Thus Homer (Odyff. 1. xi.), after he has —— 
labouring {pondees the flow ee painful manner in which 
Sifyphus r olled the ftone up hill, makes ufe of nimble daétyls. 
in defcribing its {wift defcent : 
§ ADs Erie medavde KUAWEL IO Ades averdag. 
And Virgil (En. viii. v. 595» 59°) deicribes in pure dactylé. 
the gallgging of the horfe: 
sé amor, &t agminé fa&o 
Quadripédanié pitrém Souiti quacit Gngild campim.” 
This term, in verfification, as much belongs to mulic 
as poetry, words frequently occurring in ou 
(chiefly adverbs,) confitting > one long an 
lables ; fo that mufical move ; 
bars compofed of one long an -) two fhort notes a aan 
occur, it may be called Dadylic mufic, fuch as Shenttone’ 8 
rs ae =a: 
« My banks ad wére furnithed with bees, 
hdfe murs invite mé td 
Arne has fet thele words admigably in Sieiliana time. 
paftorals generally require, 
