DAP 
then Vifual to adorn an olive bough with garlands of lau¬ 
rel and other flowers, and place on the top a brazen globe, 
en which were fufpended fmaller ones. In the middle 
•was placed a number of crowns, and a globe of inferior 
fize, and the bottom was adorned with a faffron-coloured 
garment. The globe on the top reprefented the fun, or 
Apollo ; that in the middle was an emblem of the moon, 
and the others of the liars. The crowns, which were 
fixty-five in number, reprefented the fun’s annual revo¬ 
lutions. This bough was carried in folemn proceflion by 
a beautiful youth of an illudrious family, and whofe pa¬ 
rents were both living. The youth was dreffed in rich 
garments which reached to the ground, his hair hung 
loofe and di(bevelled, his head was covered with a golden 
crown, and lie wore on his feet fhoes called Iphicratida , 
from Iphicrates, an Athenian, who fir ft invented them. He 
was called Aapujipo^os, laurel-bearer, and at that time he 
executed the office of pried of Apollo. He was preceded 
by one of his neared relations, bearing a rod adorned with 
garlands, and behind him followed a train of virgins with 
branches in their hands. In this order the proceffion ad¬ 
vanced as far asthe temple of Apollo, furnamed Ifmenius, 
where fupplicatory hymns were fling to the god. This fef- 
tival owes its origin to the following circumdance : when 
an oracle advifcd the fEtolians, who inhabited Arne and 
the adjacent country, to abandon their ancient poffef- 
fions, and go in qued of a fettlement, they invaded the 
Theban territories, which at that time were pillaged by 
an army of Pelafgians. As the celebration of Apollo’s 
fedivals was near, both nations, who religioully obferved 
it, laid aflde all hodilities, and, according to cudom, cut 
down laurel-boughs from Mount Helicon, and in the 
neighbourhood of the river Melas, and walked in pro¬ 
ceffion in honour of the divinity. The day that this fo- 
lemnity was obfefved, Polemates, the general of the 
Boeotian army, faw a youth in a dream that prefented 
him with a complete fuit of armour, and commanded the 
Boeotians to offer folemn prayers to Apollo, and walk in 
proceffion with laurel-boughs in their hands every ninth 
year. Three days after this dream, the Boeotian general 
made a fally, and cut off the greated part of the beliegers, 
who were compelled by this blow to relinquifli their en- 
terprife. Polemates immediately'indituted a novennial 
fedival to the god, who feemed to be the patron of the 
Boeotians. PavJ'anias. 
DAPH'NIS, a fliepherd of Sicily, fon of Mercury, by 
a Sicilian nymph. He was educated by the nymphs. 
Pan taught him to dng and play upon the pipe, and the 
mufes infpired him with the love of poetry. It is fup- 
pofed he was the fird who wrote padoral poetry, in which 
his fucceffor Theocritus fo happily excelled. He was 
extremely fond of hunting ; and, at his death, five of his 
dogs, from their attachment to him, refufed all aliments, 
and pined away. /Elian. —There was another fliepherd 
on Mount Ida of the fame name changed into a rock, 
according to Ovid. —A fon of Paris and CEnone. 
DAPii'NUS, a river of Locris, into which the body 
of Heiiod was thrown after his murder. Plutarch. 
DAPHNOI'DES,yi in botany. See Daphne. 
DAPHNO'MANCY,yi [«a<pn;, Gr. a laurel, and peev- 
rua.. magic.] Divination by means of laurel. 
DA'PlFER,yl [a dapesferendo , Lat.] Anciently ado- 
medic officer, like our deward of the houfehold, or ra¬ 
ther clerk of the kitchen ; but by degrees it was ufed 
for any fiduciary fervant, efpecially the chief deward or 
head bailiff of an honour or manor. There is mention 
made in our ancient records of dapifer regis, which is 
taken for deward of the king’s houlehold. Cctvcl. —The 
dignity of dapifer is dill fublifiing in Germany, the elec¬ 
tor of Bavaria alfuming the title of arcludapijcr of the em¬ 
pire•, whofe office is, at the coronation of the emperor, to 
carry the fird diflt of meat to table on horleback. 
DAP'PER, adj. \_dapper, Dut.J Little and aftive ; 
lively without bulk. It is ufually lpoken in contempt.— 
DAR 5y9 
A pert dapper fpark cf a magpye fancied the birds would 
never be governed till himfelf fliould fit at the helm. 
L' Eft range. . 
And on the tawny fands and dielves, 
Trip the pert fairies and the dapper e Ives. Milton . 
DAP'PERLING,yi A dwarf; adandiprat. Ainfwortli. 
DAP'PI.E, adj. [from apple ; as pommcle'.'] Marked 
with various colours; variegated; dreaked; imbricated; 
it is ufed chiefly of animals.—My country neighbours 
do not find it impoffible to think of a lame horfe, till 
they have run over all beings that are; and then pitch 
on dapple. Locke. 
To DAP'PLE, w. a. To dreak ; to vary ; to diverfify 
with colours.—Horfes that are dappled turn white ; and 
old fquirrels turn grifly. Bacon. 
The gentle day 
Dapples the drowfy ead with fpots of grey. Shakefpeare. 
DAP'PLE-BAY,yj in the manege: when bay horfes 
have marks or fpots of a darker bay, they are called dap¬ 
ple-bays ; and when a black horfe has fpots or marks mere 
black or diining than the red of his (kin, he is called, a 
dapple-black. 
DAPS, a river of Denmark, which runs into the Little 
Belt : fourteen miles north-ead of Haderfleben. 
DAR, Dare, or Dart, yl A fid) found in the Severn. 
Bailey. —It is the fame with dace. See Cypuinus. 
DAR-FUR, a kingdom in the interior of Africa, ex¬ 
plored by Mr. Browne in 1794; for particulars of which 
fee the article Fur. 
DA'RA, [from the Heb. fignifying a generation.] A 
man’s name. 
DARA'AN, or Daraun, a town of Ada, in Grand 
Tartary : about twenty-four leagues ead of Samarcand. 
DARABGE'RD, or Darae-guierd, a town of Per- 
fia, in the province of Farlidan, faid to have been founded 
by Darius; it is large, but not populous, near which 
fait is found of various colours, white, black, red, and 
green. A confiderable manufacture of glafs is carried on 
here : 116 miles ead-fouth-ead of Sciiiras. 
DA'RAH, or Dras, a river of Africa, which rifes in 
the greater Atlas, not far from Tefza, and runs into the 
Atlantic near Cape Non. 
DA'RAH, or Dras, a country of Africa, bounded on 
the north by Morocco, Gezula, and Tafilet, on the e. d 
and the fouth by Zahara, and the wed by Sus, and takes 
its name from the river Darah, or Dras, which paffes 
through it: the principal produce is indigo and dates : 
the inhabitants are Arabians and Mahometans, and fome 
of the didridts of the country are dependants of Morocco. 
DARAMA'JON, a town on the north coad of the ifland 
of Java : thirty miles ead of Batavia. 
DARAMPOO'RY, a town of Hindoodan, in the My- 
fore country: eighty-eight miles ead of Seringapatafh, 
and 110 north of Dindigul. Lat. 12. 11. N. Ion. 78. 30. E. 
Greenwich. 
DAkANTA'SIA, called Forum Claudii by the Ro¬ 
mans ; anciently a town of the Centrones in Gallia Nar- 
bonenlis, fituated between Lemincum and Auguda Pras- 
toria. Now Moujlicrs, in Savoy. 
DARAPO'RUM, a town of Hindoodan, in the Coirrt- 
betore country : thirty-fix miles ead-fouth-ead of Coim- 
betore, and feventy-three wed of Trichinopoly. Lat. 10. 
42. N. Ion. 77. 40. E. Greenwich. 
DARAP'TI, f. in logic, one of the modes of fyllo- 
gifms of the third figure, whofe premifes are univerlal 
affirmatives, and the concluiion is a particular affirma¬ 
tive. Thus: 
Dar- Every body is divilible ; 
ap- Every body is a fubdance ; 
ti, Therefore, fome fubdance is divilible. 
DAR'BY, a town of the American States, in Dela¬ 
ware county, Pennfy.lvania, on the' ead. fide of Darby- 
creek j 
