DAM 
of Paleftine, in a tribe : between Socho and Azeea + 
mentioned in the book o ee 
, a town of asm on the other fide of the 
Imaus. Prolemy.—Alfo, a town of Palefline, in the tribe 
of Zebulun, allotted to ine Levites of this tribe, who were 
of the famil a eed oS in the book of Jofhua, 
and = by Eulebi us and 
Damya, in Gengraply a ee of Arabia Deferta; 80 
miles_ S. of Dam 
A UNATA TPeaRA, fynonymous with Carut Mor 
tuum, which 
Ab INE, j in 0 Ancien Geography, a people of Afia, placed 
by Ptolemy in 
DAMNII, in Acie Geography, one of the 22 Britifh 
nations, which, Ptolemy, inhabited that part 
of Bani: that ae ll of Antoninus, 
between the Friths of Forth and Ci yde. They were, accord- 
n and Baxter, the ancient inhab: itants of 
Their 
from the Britith word Dun, which fignifies a hill or 
tain; a great part of their count a) being hilly or mountain- 
This was one of thofe Britifh nations, ny, une 
known to the Romans, which were difcovers by Agricola, 
in the third year of his government when he penetrated to 
the river Ta It was in the country_of the Damnit that 
Agricola built thofe forts, into which he put his army in 
winter for the prefervation of his conquefts; as it was in 
the fame country, and probably in the fame tract, that the 
famous wall was built in the reign of Antoninus Pins, to 
protect the Roman territories from the incurfions of the 
On account o 
towns were pi Ve, Coria, or Curia, Alauna, 
Lindum and Victor 
DAMNONII, Dane ont, Dumnonii, Dunmani, or Dom- 
nii, a people of Great Bzitain, who inhabited the S.W. parts 
of Britain; or that traG& of country now called Cornwall 
and Devonthire and probably part of Somerfetthire; bound- 
the S. by the Britifh ocean, on the W. by St. 
E. by the country of the Durotriges. 
Oftedamnii, which were probably saa claffes of the 
Damnonii were the keepers 
jorum and T'amare, 
ssa i fubmited ace to the Romans, they migh 
o liv 
low ve without moleftaticn under their own princes - 
n Britain, the countr 
af e province called Flavia Celnicnts, and was governed 
DAM 
by the a ad oo TS After the departure of 
he = a gly governmefit was immediately revived 
amon ie in le perfon of Vortigern, who was 
a detec nded from the race of their ancient princes, as - 
his name fignifies in the Britifh snguage a chieftain, or the 
head of a family. 
O, in Biography, daughter ef Pythagoras the phis 
lofopher, flourifhed abou ears before the prefent era, 
She was one of the Caan dilciples of her father, and wa 
initiated by him inthe fecrets of his philofophy. To hes 
the ancient fage entrufted all his writings, when he felt him-« 
felf approaching his latter end ; oe her never to make 
them public: this command fhe itri€tly obeyed, though 
tempted Dy large offers at.a time when fhe was ftruggling 
with the evils of poverty. She led a fingle life, in obedience 
to her father’s wifhes, and exhorted other young women, 
whofe education fhe took charge of, to do the fame, See 
PYTHACORAS, 
DAMON,. ythagorean ape ay who flourifhed 
about 4 400 6 before Chrift, and who is cele brated for the 
fhou'd take his place, and fuffer in his ftead, provided the 
condemned perfon did not return. he morni 
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might be admitted to the participation of fuch fincere and 
dicen friendfhip 
Dam an cat Grecian mufician. Mufic, in 
general, eu in fuch favour, and the ftudy of it was 
thought fo effential a part of ane tion, at Athen 
in the time of Pericles and Socrates, that Flato and Ply. 
us of whom 
na dialogue of ‘Plato, 
where Nicias, one of the interlocutors, informs the company, 
that Socrates had recommended, as a mufic matter to his fon, 
Damon, the difciple of Agathocles, who not only excelled 
in his own profeflion, but poffcfled every quality that could 
wifhed in a man to whom the care of youth was to be 
conned, 
amon had chiefly cultivated that part of nufic, which 
y a judici 
that the mufes bore a principal fhare in a the public pen 
cles with which he entertained the - He not onl 
regulated and augmented the ey and mufical contefts 
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