DA′GON. A god of the Philistines, half man half fish, like the mermaid.
Milton describes him as “Upward man and downward fish.”
DA′HAK. The Persian devil.
DAI′TYAS. In Hindoo mythology the devils or evil gods.
DAN′Æ was a daughter of Acrisius and Eurydice. She had a son by
Jupiter, who was drifted out to sea in a boat, but was saved by
Polydectes and educated.
DANA′IDES, see Danaus.
DANA′US, King of Argos, was the father of fifty daughters, who, all but
one, at the command of their father, slew their husbands directly after
marriage. For this crime they were condemned to the task of for ever
trying to draw water with vessels without any bottoms. See Hypermnestra.
DANCING, see Terpsichore.
DANGERS, see Scylla.
DAPH′NE. The goddess of the earth. Apollo courted her, but she fled
from him, and was, at her own request, turned into a laurel tree.
“... As Daphne was
Root-bound, that fled Apollo.”