DAR 
brooks, Some of the rivers of this province eel down 
gold duft, aa on the ccaft are pens pearl fi 
is province might great importa e 
8; and, indeed, its rr on both in he North and 
nds so rivers, the treafures of Peru, 
to Old Spain, have induced fen 
veral adventurers to mak» att ones for framing advantageous 
fettiements at Panama, Pertobello, &c. But the country is 
extremely hot, and the low lands are inundated with continual 
rains; fot y 1s i rly unhealthy. Portobelio, 
thou gh i im eel refpe@s an advantageous fituation, 1 s nearly 
rained: nor have the aes though fufficiently difpofed 
to avail ‘i ae of advantages that prefented themlelves, 
eels a 
the 
the gold mine of Cana, on the frontiers of Choco; and the 
little 
mo nth. oy aes were fome cotton and “tobacco. 
aniards feriou 
tablifh a fettlement in the country. In pur iaice. of shel 
attempts, a feeble colony fettied in the year 1510, at Santa 
Maria de Antigoa, on the gulf of Darien, under the com- 
mand of Vaico Vagnez de Balboa, who gained the confidence 
of bis countrymen by his diftinguifhed courage and condud. 
Sce Barzoa. 
For a ount of the expedition of the Scots to this 
ene fee “Scotch Darien Company and Caveponia. 
D , in Logic, a pte of f et Sa the ae figure, 
wherein the major propofition is ? univerfal coke yen and 
the minor and Seeclutoa: eee ar affirmative 
DA “ They who {peak wel : every boa have many 
friends, 
ag Sane toca well of every one.”? 
‘“‘ Therefore fome have many friends. 
DARION, in Ancient Geography, a town of Phrygia. 
- 
‘Bantovicum, page ace Veneti, a town 
n part of or 
the fea, twice a day, was rich and powerful, and t 
had ne mea of the fea, and of the whole commerce © of 
Arm ook it with difficulty, deftroyed it, and fold 
ie nian oe public fale. It was the capital of the 
Penelt. 
DARISTANE, a town of Perfia, the inhabitants of 
which were called Darite 
DARITIS Recio,a ‘country of Media. 
DARILUSL, in oe king of eer was the fon of 
Hitlafpes, a com under Cyrus the Great; and by 
Cambyfes he was ae ee of the province of Perfia. 
When. Smerdis ufurped the throne, Darius affociated him- 
the tyrant. ‘They fucceeded ; he was killed by the hand of 
rius. Afterwards they agreed e feven fhould re- 
to the city, and he whofe Horfe firft neighed fhould b 
gh 
ngly h 
raifed to the empire of Perfia, B.C. 521. On his section 
oe which comes from Panama, is changed every” 
DAR 
he married the two ousted of Cyrus, and sau wives § 
and divided the whole and 
ae nted a e 
Perfia only excepted. Darius was guilty o 
but he is cele ae in hiftory for the permifion which he 
gave to the Jews co refume the rebuilding of their tempie, 
which had sida cateruipeed by the malicious infinuations of 
the Samaritan 
In the aay eel . his reign the Babylonians revolied, 
nor was it i r of Da with all his force to take 
upon him by the king, went over to the encmy, and obtained 
their oe which he employed to betray the gates of 
the city to > Perfian army. Darius exercifed extreme 
cruelty on ‘he ‘conquered, but beftowed on his officer Zopy- 
rus the mot magniiicent rewards. Darius next engaged in 
an cxpedition againft the Scythians: he marched with a vali 
army to the Thracian Bofphorus. which he croffed by a 
ridge of boats, and after reducing Th advanced to the 
Danube, which he croffed, and entered pehee ut he wag 
obliged to return without gaining any mate A 
Dai is faid to have conquered India ; but ats 
not extend, pro = far into the country. 
this fovereign were various; in fome inttances his ambition 
was completely oa, in others he was glad to withdraw 
his armies with great lofs. In an expedition againit Greece 
om 
he was proceeding fouthward, his fleet was 
almoft wholly ruined by a ftorm, fo that he was obliged to 
fia. Dari 
the cities of Athens a 
all ney furvivi iv “ohabitents in fetters. he Perfians took 
the ifle of Naxus, and cit retria 5 ion - were defeated 
at Meccn by the Aas and Plate s, commanded by 
the celebrated Miltiades. Their fleet was. anne 2 ec 
unfuccefsful in an attempt to furprife Athen He n 
refolved to go into Greece himfelf, and oo oma to “a 
a a in the feveral provinces of t mpire’ to ac- 
company.him ia his expedition 5 but after he had aoe iis 
the requilite preparations, a new war 
e then determine rf fo 
he 
sicker wih the ha into Gree 
was ready, an xes his fon declared heir-apparent to 
cro she Dar fell fick and died, in the thirty-fixth year of 
his re This happened in the aa B. This fo- 
any 
wee was endowed with many good qualities : his wifdom, 
alee and clemency are warmly Se by the an-. 
cients ; and when he is compared with the- ‘generality of 
eaftern defpots, he may be entitled to ake praife of juftice 
and humanity. 
Darius II. furnamed Ochus, and alfo a w2s 
one of the natural fons of Artaxerxes Longiman 
afcended the’ Perfian apne in the year 423 s hif- 
tory as a fovereign is but a varie : fuceeive ole 
terminating in the defeat and fe who excited 
them e died in the 20t i was 
fucceeded - his fon Arfaces, ano “affirm ed the name of Ar. 
taxerxes, and received the appellat ion of Mnemon from the 
Ny 
ft hours, he afked how he could beft perform the duties 
of government, to which Darius replied, that he spe himfelf 
Q2 onftantly 
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