1. A celebrated grove and sanctuary of Apollo near Antioch (q. v.), in Syria. Its establishment, like that of the city, was due to Seleucus Nicator. The dis- tance between the two places was about five miles (Strnbo, xvi, 750), and in liistory they are associated most intimately together (Antioch being frequently
called 'A. lirl Aafvp^ and ^ rp^ Ao^iqy, wd m versely Daphne entitled A. 17 irp6^ 'Ayrwx*^^ sephus, War, i, 12, 5 ; oomp. Ant. xiv, 15, 11; xn^t 1). • The situation was of extreme nstaial l»aB^,ii perennial fountains and abundant -wood. Sdeets ^ calized here, and appropriated to himself anfl hit i» ily the fables of Apollo and the rirer Penatt, sadi nymph Daplme. Here he erected a magnifitti pie and colossal statue of the god (litMnriwyAJiy mto Templo, ili, 884). The suoeeeiding Sdeoaiv* archs, espedally Antiochus Epiphanea, embd&kjfa {dace still further. Among other bonofs, it p« the privileges of an asylum. It is in the da that the place is mentioned, 2 Mace rr, 8S. hih reign of Antiochus Epiphanea (B.C. 171), ihe aff&ai patriotic high-priest Onias, having rebuked Heiik for his sacrilege at Jerusalem, took refrige at J^ol whence he was treacherously brought out, at tk '» stance of Menelaus, and murdered by Andraokai,i^ was governor of Antioch during the king's abs^e ■ a campaign. Joaeidins does m>t grre this accoextf the death of Onias {Ant. xii, 5, IX When 8jni» came Roman, Daphne continued to be famoas m 1 place of pilgrimage and vice. '* Deqfkmci muni' a a proverb (see 6ibbon*s 28d chapter). The b^gi^ of the decay of Daphne must be dated fitsn tiie tav tf Julian, when Christianity in the empire begsa to & umph over heathenism. The site baa beoi well ti» tified by Pococke and other travdlers at Bed d-Jks, "the House of the Water,'* on the left bask «f^ Orontes, to the south-west of Antioch, and on \a^ ground, where the fountains and the wild fii^nBt?!?^ etation are in harmony with .all that we leid d^ natural characteristics of ApoUg^a Mnrtnary.— S^ s. V. It is a small natural amphitheatrs oa tb 4- clivity of the mountains, where the spdngs hatit isi a loud noise from the earth, and rmming in a noB^ of directions for a distance ef about two handndpai terminate in two beautiful cascades, whidk M ia the valley of the Orontes. The largest of the fe» tains rises from under a yeitical txk^ Ibnua^ avl abyss or concavity, on the top and stdes of iitaA m the massive remains of an ancient office, fet^ those of the Temple of Apollo (Kelly^a ^rm, p.33l For a translation of an ancient inscription neatdj^ covered on the site, see the Jour, Am, Or, Socri^ SeeMoUer, An«i7.i4friioci(fi<e,p.64; SaaOt'BLiei^ Ckue, Geogr. s. v. See Astiocb.
2. A town or village (x**pu>v) near the ioantii&s^ the little Jordan (Josephus, War, It, 1, sec. I). ^ land (Palastina, p. 263) and othen h&ve oo^dcid this as identical with Dan, proposing to resd Mart for Aaipvric, and referring in aaj^iort to Jos^oa^ ^ viii, 8, 4. Recent explorers have ahown this ti ^ an error, and have discovered the site of the 0>^ of Josephus in the present Ih^fnek, two miles to t^ south of Tell el-Kady, the site of Dan (Van deT^ Memoir, p. tm-, agriaandPtikttim,Uj419; BiotiBsn, Later Beeeareket, p. 898; Wilson, Bible Laait,n,Vfi: Thomson, Land and Boik, i, 888).~-KittOv s. v.
3. In Num. xxxiv, 11, the cUmae rendered ia ^^ V. "on the east side of Aln" (q. v.), and by tiie S^ "on the east to (of) the fountain," b giFen intlM V^ gate " contra fontem Daphnim." The wad Dqi^ is most probably a marginal gloss, and may po^ refer to No. 2. Jerome, in his commentary on Es^ (c. 47), refers to the passage in Nnmben, aod p» reasons for condudmg that " the fountain" is Dtq^ No. 1. The Targums of Jonathan and of Jen^ give Daphne or Dq>hne as the equivalent of K^ (q. V.) in Num. xxxiv, U (q. v.). The env vM which Jerome and the Targums have fiallen sppean* have arisen either frvmi a conftisioa betweea Dtp^ on the Jordan with Daphne on the Orontes, or t^ mistaking the fountains nearthe month of the Onsli for those at its source. — Kitto, s. v.
4. A fortified town on the Pelodac hnaeh d^
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Qe (Adi^vatt Herod, ii, 80, 107), the Tahpenes (q. .) of Scripture, distant from Pelnsiam sixteen Roman iles (Itm.Ant. Iter a Pelosio Memphim).— Kitto, s. v. Dar. See Mabbls.
Da'ra (Heb. Dora^, 9*^^ * Sept. Aapd r. r. Aa- xBj AapaSky, a contracted or corrupt form (1 Chron. , 6) of the name Dabda (q. v.).
Darbyltes. See Pltmouth Bbbtbbbh.
Daromoxiim. See Dabio.
Dar^da (Heb. Darda', ^f*^^*^, pearl of knowledge; ept. AapdaXa ▼. r. r5v ddpaa ; Josephus, AapBavo^ . r. Aap^avoQ^ Ant. viii, 2, 5 ; Vulg. Dordd)^ a son r Mahol, one of four men of great fame for tbeir wis- om, but who were excelled by Solomon (1 Kings iv, I). B.C. ante 1010. Ethan, the first of the four, is iUed "the Ezrachite," but it is uncertain whether le designation extends to others. In 1 Chron. ii, 6, owever, the same four names occur again as *'8ons f Zerach,** of the great family of Pharez, in the tribe f Judah, with the slight diflfierence that " Darda" ap- ears as ** Dara." The identity of these persons with bose in 1 Kings ir has been greatly debated (see the rguments on both sides in Burrington, i, 206-d) ; but here cannot be much reasonable doubt that they are be same (Mdvers, Kridk, Unters, p. 287) ; although Ceil argues that nothing can be proved from the mere cientity of the names {Vertuch Hb. der Ckron. p. 164). There is nothing to support the Jewish tradition (in be Seder Olam Rabbd) that they prophesied during he Egyptian bondage. See Ethan.