DAHÆ, a people of Scythia, to the south of the Caspian, with the Massagetæ on the east. Virgil calls them _indomitique Dahæ_. DALMATIA, an extensive country bordering on Macedonia and Mæsia, and having the Adriatic to the south. DANDARIDÆ, a people bordering on the Euxine. Brotier says that some vestiges of the nation, and its name, still exist at a place called _Dandars_. DANUBE, the largest river in Europe. It rises in Suabia, and after visiting Bavaria, Austria, Hungary, and taking thence a prodigious circuit, falls at last into the Black or Euxine sea. See Manners of the Germans, s. 1. note g. DELOS, the central island of the Cyclades, famous in mythology for the birth of Apollo and Diana. DELPHI, a famous inland town of Phocis in Greece, with a temple and oracle of Apollo, situate near the foot of Mount Parnassus. DENTHELIATE LANDS, a portion of the Peloponnesus that lay between Laconia and Messenia; often disputed by those states. DERMONA, a river of Gallia Transpadana; it runs into the Ollius (now _Oglio_), and through that channel into the Po. DIVODURUM, a town in Gallia Belgica, situate on the Moselle, on the spot where _Metz_ now stands. DONUSA, or DONYSA, an island in the Ægean sea, not far from _Naxos_. Virgil has, _Bacchatamque jugis Naxon, viridemque Donysam_. DYRRACHIUM, a town on the coast of Illyricum. Its port answered to that of Brundusium, affording a convenient passage to Italy. E. ECBATANA, the capital of Media; now _Hamedan_. EDESSA, a town of Mesopotamia; now _Orrhoa_, or _Orfa_. ELEPHANTINE, an island in the Nile, not far from Syene; at which last place stood the most advanced Roman garrison, _Notitia Imperii_. ELEUSIS, a district of Attica near the sea-coast, sacred to Ceres, where the Eleusinian mysteries were performed; now in ruins. ELYMÆI, a people bordering on the gulf of Persia. EMERITA, a city of Spain; now _Merida_ in the province of _Estramadoura_. EPHESUS, an ancient and celebrated city of Ionia, in Asia Minor; now _Efeso_. It was the birth-place of Heraclitus, the weeping philosopher. EPIDAPHNE, a town in Syria, not far from Antioch. EPOREDIA, a town at the foot of the Alps, afterwards a Roman colony; now _Jurea_, or _Jura_, a city of Piedmont. ERINDE, a river of Asia, mentioned by Tacitus only. ERITHRÆ, a maritime town of Ionia, in Asia Minor. ETRURIA, a district of Italy, extending from the boundary of Liguria to the Tiber; now _Tuscany_. EUBŒA, an island near the coast of _Attica_; now _Negropont_. EUPHRATES, a river of Asia, universally allowed to take its rise in Armenia Major. It divides into two branches, one running through Babylon, and the other through Seleucia. It bounds Mesopotamia on the west. EUXINE, or PONTUS EUXINUS; now the Black Sea. F. FERENTINUM, a town of Latium, in Italy; now _Ferentino_, in the Campania of Rome. FERENTUM, a town of Etruria; now _Ferenti_. FERONIA, a town in Etruria.