Numismata hellenica: a catalogue of Greek coins; with notes, a map ...

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Damastium (lUyrici) probably a colony of Zacyntbus, and
situated at the modern Kroya, Eu. 44.
Damophon, a cnllection of statues by this artist in the
temple of Asclepius at Messene, his native city, Eu. 74.
Dancle. See Messana.
Daphne, near Antioch, now Beit-el-Ma, temples of Diana
converted into
and Apollo there situated j its buildings
a palace by the Emperor Theodosius, As. 12, 13.
Dardania (Moesise Superioris) situated immediately north
of Pseonia, Eu. 159.
Dardanus (Troadis) noted for its fighting-cocks ; hence
the figure of a cock on its coins, As. 52.
Darics, the name of these Persian gold coins derived from
Dareius, son of Hystaspes, their first coiner; an imitation
of the Lydian money ; their great circulation an-
ciently in Greece, K. 52.
Datus (Thracia;). See Neopolis Macedoniae.
Deiotarus II., king of Galatia, deserts from Antony to
Octavius during the battle of Actium, K. 44.
Delium (Boeotiaj) more important in earlier times than
its coins, Eu. 44.
when described by Livy ;
INDEX TO THE NOTES.
Delphi, defeat of the Gauls there in b.c. 279 attributed to
Pan, K. 13
—^— (Phocidis), the negro's head on some of its coins intended
for jEsop, who was murdered by its people, Eu. 45.
Delus, the palm-tree on its coins allusive to the birth of
Apollo there, Ins. 16.
Demetrias (Thessaliae) founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes
about 290 B.C.; called one of the fetters of Greece by
Philip, son of Demetrius ; its remains near Volo, Eu. 45.
Demetrius I. (Poliorcetes) of Macedonia, the battle of
Cyprus in b.c 306 referred to by the types of his coins ;
the regal title assumed by him after that battle ; his
coins apparently struck in Macedonia, K. 1 1 : defeated
at Gaza in 312 b.c by Seleucus I. of Syria and Ptolemaeus
I. of Egypt, K. 21 : the Rhodians saved from him
by the latter, K. 58.
II. of Macedonia, reasons for ascribing coins to
him, K. 14.
I. (Soter) of Syria sent to Rome by his father
as a hostage, K. 26 : entitled Soter for having expelled
the tyrant Heracleides from Babylon ; enmity of the
Romans against him ; slain 150 b.c in a battle with
Alexander Balas and his allies, K. 27.
II. (Nicator) of Syria, his reign commenced
in 146 B.C., after his defeat of Antiochus VI., K. 30:
married to Cleopatra, daughter of Ptolemy VI. of Egypt,
K. 33 : defeated and made captive in Parthia, K. 30 :
there marries Rhodogune, the king's daughter, K. 33 :
his throne meanwhile claimed by his brother Sidetes ;
some of his coins struck at Mallus their ; reverse
probably a statue of Astarte in that city, K. 30 :
released by Phrahates of Parthia, and returns from
captivity in 129 b.c, K. 31, 32: defeated by Alexander
II. of Syria, K. 32 : refused admittance to Acca by
his wife Cleopatra, K. 33 : killed at Tyre, K. 32, 33.
III. (Eucserus, Philopator, Soter) of Syria reigns
simultaneously with his brother Philip, with whom he
subsequently makes war ; carried prisoner into Parthia,
and dies there, K. 37.
of
-_—
Bactria, his conquests in Ariana and India,
during the reign of his father Euthydemus ; supplanted
by Eucratides, K. 55.
Desposna represented by the female head on the coins of
Arcadia, Eu. 16 : the same as Aphrodite, Eu. 38.
Deucetius the founder of Calacte Siciliae, on his return
from exile at Corinth, Ins. 52.
Deultum or Develton (Thraciee) a colony established by
Vespasian, Eu. 45.
Dia (Bithyniee) on the sea-coast, sixty stades east of the
river Hypius, As. 52.
Diana (Leucophrys), ruins of her temple at Magnesia,
now Inekl)azar; resemblance of the early figures of
Diana at Ephesus, Magnesia, and Perga, with that of
Juno at Samus, and that of Astarte at Mallus,— all derived
from a Phoenician original. As. 77, 78. 95 : Diana,
temples of, at Argos Argolidis, Eu. 19 : at Las Laconic,
Eu. 60 : at Stymphalus Arcadise, Eu. 98 : at Troezen,
Eu. 165 : and at Salamis, Ins. 36.
Didrachmon, Attic, observations upon the cause of there
being a weight equiponderant of it in use in Persia,
Lydia, and the Greek cities of Europe and Asia, the
./Eolic and Doric cities excepted, 1] — 4].
Diocaesarea. See Sepphoris Galileae.
Diodotus of Apameia (Tryphon) sets up Antiochus VI.,
and afterwards murders him ; slain by Antiochus
Sidetes, K. 30 : Jonathan Maccabseus put to death by
him, K. 40.
Diodotus assumes the title of king of Bactria in 255 b.c,
K.54.
II. of Bactria expelled by Euthydemus, K. 54.
Dionysius, tyrant of Heracleia Bithyniae, As. 65.
, tyrant of Tripolis Phoeniciae, beheaded by
Pompey, As. 137.
I. of Syracuse founds and peoples Tyndaris from
Messana in 396 b.c, Ins. 63. 78 : Motya besieged and
destroyed by him in 397 B.C., Ins. 65.
II. the destroyer of Naxus in Sicily, Ins. 65.
called Cruni
and Matiopolis ;
Eu. 45.
its position at the modern Kavarna,
Dionysopolis (Moesise Inferioris) previously
(Phrygise) on the Upper Maeander, not far
westward of Apameia Cibotus ;
As. 52.
mentioned by Cicero,
Dionysus, epithet of Antiochus VI. of Svria, K. 29: of
Antiochus XII., K. 37: of Antiochus' XIII., K. 3R :
and of Ptolemy XII. of Egypt, K. 62.
Dioscurias (Colchidis), now Iskuria, a Milesian colony ;
afterwards called Sebastopolis, As. 52.
Dioshieron (Ionise) between Lebedus and Colophon ; part
of its territory on the Caystrus, whence the personification
of that river on its coins. As. 52.
Dium CMacedoniae) colonized by Julius Caesar and Augustus;
its remains at Malathria, Eu. 46.
Docimium (Phrygiae) named after Docimus, one of the
generals
of Alexander the Great : the marble from its
quarries famous at Rome, and more commonly called
Synnadic marble. As. 52. 124.
Dodona, its position near loannina ; the coins of Epirna
in genere there struck ; no other kind of its money
known, Eu. 51.
Doganlu, position of the valley now so called, twelve miles
from Nacoleia Phrygiae ; the place of sepulture
of some
of the Phrygian kings ; the inscriptions upon the monuments
there the only known documents in the Phrygian
language. As. 86.
Doliehe (Commagenes) near Zeugma on the Euphrates,
As. 53.
Doric architecture, its origin ; mistake that it was derived
from Egypt, Eu. 161.
Dorylaeum, its position at Eski-Sheher verified by that of
Nacoleia Phrygiae at Seid-el-Ghazi, As. 86.
Dracanum, the chief city of Icaria, the
EKKAPPEl there struck, Ins. 21, 22.
coins inscribed
Drachma, Attic. See Solon.
Drepanum, now Trapani, anciently the harbour of Eryx
Siciliae, Ins. 56.
Dusares, Bacchus so called by some of the Arabians, As. 35.