Smith, William: A smaller dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities (London, 1871)

CYMBALUM. 126 DAKEICU8.

and played by being struck against each other.
The word is derived from ku/h(3os, a hollow.
The cymbal was a very ancient instrument,
being used in the worship of Cybele, Bacchus,
Juno, and all the earlier deities of the Gre-
cian and Soman mythology. It probably
came from the East. The crotalum (/cpoTaAoi/)
was a kind of cymbal. It appears to have

Cymbala. (From a Bas-relief in the Vatican.)

been a split reed or cane, which clattered
when shaken with the hand. Women who
played on the crotalum were termed crotalis-
triae. Such was Virgil's Copa :

M Crispum sub crotalo diKta movere latus."

The line alludes to the dance with crotala
(similar to castanets).—For sigtrum, which
some have referred to the class of cymbala,
see Sistrvm.

Crotala (Borghme Vase now in the Louvre.)

DACTYLt'S (oa/cnAos), a Greek measure,
answering to the Roman digitus, each
signifying a finger-breadth, and being the
sixteenth part of a foot. [Pes.]

DAEDALA or DAEDALEIA (oai'oaAa, Sat-
SaAeia), names used by the Greeks to signify
those early works of art which were ascribed
to the age of Daedalus, and especially the
ancient wooden statues, ornamented with
gilding and bright colours and real drapery,
which were the earliest known forms of the
images of the gods, after the mere blocks of
wood or stone, which were at first used for
symbols of them.

DAEDALA (fiai'SaAa), the name of two
festivals, celebrated in Boeotia in honour of
Hera, and called respectively the Great and
the Lesser Daedala. The latter were cele-
brated by the Plataeans alone ; in the cele-
bration of the former, which took place only
every sixtieth year, the Plataeans were joined
by the other Boeotians.

DAMARETION (oap-aptTeioi' xpvo-ioi'), a
Sicilian coin, respecting which there is much
dispute ; but it was probably a gold coin,
equal in value to fifty litrae or ten Attic
drachmae of silver ; that is, a half stater.
DAMIURGI. [Demiukci.]
DAMOSIA. [Exeuciti-s.]
DAN ACE (6afa/c7)), properly the name of a
foreign coin, was also the name given to the
obolos, which was placed in the mouth of the
dead to pay the ferryman in Hades.

DAPHNEPIl6lUA(o'a<fc.T)<p6pia), a festival
celebrated every ninth year at Thebes in
honour of Apollo, surnamed Ismenius or Ga-
laxius. Its name was derived from the laurel
branches (Stuprai) which were carried by those
who took part in its celebration.

DAREICUS (fiapet/cd?), or to give the name
in full, the Stater of Dareius, a gold coin of
Persia, stamped on one side with the figure
of an archer crowned and kneeling upon one
knee, and on the other with a sort of quad-
rata incusa or deep cleft. It is supposed to
have derived its name from the first Dareius,
king of Persia. It is equal to about 1/. Is. lOd.
!• 76 farthings.

Dareicus. (Pritish Museum.)