DAR 
DAPHNUSA, an ae of yi fai fea, placei by 
Pliny near thofe of Sam 
eee a lake of a M: nok in Bithynia 
DAPHTHITA, a people of Africa, placed by ‘Pto- 
lemy in te nteri of Libya, at the foot of mount Atlas. 
DAP R, ae dignity or office of grand-malter, or 
a ewer > a king’s or prince’s houfehold. 
> ba atin, compounded of fo dapis, a 
difh of eee fered on the table, and fero, 1 bear; fo that 
dapifer literally fignifies a ae or an officer who 
ferves wee meats upon the ta 
The title of dapifer was mn by the emperor of Con- 
ga: to the czar of Ruffia, as a teftimony of fa 
In France, the like office inftitu b 
affixed the fuperintendance over all the officers of the houfe- 
hold, 
In England the office of dapifer was lefs eminent ; bein 
found in feveral of our ancient charters named one of the 
laft of the officers of the houfehold. 
The dignity of dapifer is ftill fubfifting in Germany, Till 
the year 1623, the ele€tor palatine was dapifer, or grand- 
fewer of the empire 3 fince that time, the elector of Ba- 
varia has affumed the title of arch-dapifer of the empire. 
His office is, at the coronation of an emperor, to carry the 
firft difh of meat to table on horfebac 
The feveral funétions of a dapifer occafioned the ancients 
to give him divers names: as, sAsiareoe, and eleater, dipno- 
celeron convocator, trapezopzus, architriclinus s, progutta, 
ae in horfes a or dappled bays and grays. 
PLE bay, in the Manege, is ufed for a horfe which 
‘has ae of a dark bay colour. Such are alfo called bays 
‘a mirroir. 
Darrre black, a black horfe, having {pots or marks 
blacker and more fhining than the reft of his fkin 
APS, in Geography, a river of Denmark, cue runs 
“Into yea Little Belt ; 14 miles north-eaft of Haderfleben. 
SILES Corona, among the Romans, a kind of 
crowns or garlands worn by the women, which covered 
their faces, and ferved as a veil. 
graphy, a river of Afia, in Cara- 
mania, which ee nto cf Perfian gulf; called by Pliny 
Daras.—Al\fo, a i i i 
into the Atlantic. or, called by 
fuppofed . ‘be the river Senegal = bei 
lemy Daratis, and 
a, a fortified town of Afia 
from Nifibis, and four Ae ine from the river Tigris, 
was peopled and 
h 
in thie place, by order of Anaitafiue, were improved by the 
perfeverance of Jultinian ; and as a fpecimen of the military 
oe of that age, we fhall give a brief defcription 
The city was furrounded with two walls, and the interval 
between them of 50 paces afforded a retreat to the cattle of 
the belieged. The inner wall was a monument of ftrength 
and beauty ; it meafured 6o feet from the ground, and the 
height of the ‘towers was 100 feet ; the loop-holes, from 
which an enemy might be annoyed with miflile weapons, 
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DAR 
were fmall, but aumerons; the foldiers were planted along 
he rampart, under the fhelter of double galleries, and a 
third platform, fpacious and fecure, was a ont an 
mit of the towers. The exterior wall appears to have been 
lefs lofty, but more folid; and each tower was protected by 
uadrangular bulwark. A hard rocky foil refilted a 
‘ons of the miners; and on the fouth-eaft, where the ground 
was more trate, their approach was retar 
wor advanced in the fhape of an half-moon. 
double aad treble ditches were filled with a ftream of 
and to provoke the jealoufy 
of the Perfians, who inceffantly complained, that this im- 
regnable fortrefs had been conftru€ed in manifett violatioa 
ates of “Coucafus, he fufpended ie aeaoluci of Dara, 
condition that it fhould never be made the refidence oe a 
general of the Eaft. In his laft wars with the Romans, 
D. 572, &c., Chofroes conducted ia perfon the fiege of 
Dara ; and “although that important fortrefs had been left 
dcftitute of troops and ma gazines, the valour of the inhabit- 
ants refifted above five months, the sigs the re saa 
and the taal eee of the grea ing t 
reign of peat II., the ftrong fies - [Martyr fae | 
Dara w Allok to the Pe and the Pefarmenians 
became e Arena fubje&s of an empire, i tes limit of 
whic xtended, beyond the example of former times, 
as far as oe banks of the Araxes, and the vicinity of the 
afpia 
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ere or Dra, in Geography, a large aad of age 
which rifes in the Greater Atlas, not far from Tefza, and 
difcharges itfelf into the Atlantic, not far fon Cape e Non 
enclofing a great part of the So called Mauritania Ce. 
farienfis. 
Dra, a province of se kingdom of Morocco, 
fo called from the river Dara, which pafles through it, and 
acl is Guitena abou 
paces from the river, well defended by walls, ong forted 
Near this tow e dif. 
Gis inhabitants pie 9 
moft part 
complexion, which is aferibed . their pees 
alliances with the a a The women, though fome- 
what 
