Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), D, D, Daphné

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Daphné

（Δάφνη). A beautiful spot, five miles south of Antioch in Syria, to which it formed a sort of park or pleasure garden. It was celebrated for the grove and temple dedicated to Apollo. Here was a sanctuary with the right of asylum which became famous, and to which pilgrims resorted in great numbers, making it a scene of perpetual vice. See the description in Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. xxiv. Hence Daphnici mores became proverbial.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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