Daphnis
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Daphnin Proper-name noun masculine accusative singular of Daphnis
- A son of Mercury, a beautiful young shepherd in Sicily, the inventor of pastoral songs, and hence a favorite of Pan, Ov. M. 4, 277.—Acc. usu. Daphnim, Verg. E. 2, 26; 5, 20; 7, 7 et saep: Daphnin, id. ib. 5, 52; Prop. 2, 34, 68 (3, 32, 68 M.).—
- II A grammarian, sportively called, in allusion to the preceding, Πανὸς ἀγάπημα, Suet. Gramm. 3; Plin. 7, 39, 40, § 128.
(Δάφνις), a Sicilian hero, to whom the invention of bucolic poetry is ascribed. He is called a son of Hermes by a nymph (Diod. 4.84), or merely the beloved of Hermes. (Aelian, Ael. VH 10.18.) Ovid (Ov. Met. 4.275) calls him an Idaean shepherd; but it does not follow from this, that Ovid connected him with either the Phrygian or the Cretan Ida, since Ida signifies any woody mountain. (Etym. Magn. s.v. His story runs as follows: The nymph, his mother, exposed him when an infant in a charming valley in a laurel grove, from which he received his name of Daphnis, and for which he is also called the favourite of Apollo. (Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. 10.26.) He was brought up by nymphs or shepherds, and he himself became a shepherd, avoiding the bustling crowds of nen, and tending his flocks on mount Aetna winter and summer. A Naiad (her name is different in different writers, Echenais, Xenea, Nomia, or Lyce,--Parthen. Erot. 29; Schol. ad Theocrit. 1.65, 7.73; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. 8.68; Philarg. ad Virg. Eclog. 5.20) fell in love with him, and made him promise never to form a connexion with any other maiden, adding the threat that he should become blind if he violated his vow. For a time the handsome Daphnis resisted all the numerous temptations to which he was exposed, but at last he forgot himself, having been made intoxicated by a princess. The Naiad accordingly punished him with blindness, or, as others relate, changed him into a stone. Previous to this time he had composed bucolic poetry, and with it delighted Artemis during the chase. According to others, Stesichorus made the fate of Daphnis the theme of his bucolic poetry, which was the earliest of its kind. After having become blind, he invoked his father to help him. The god accordingly raised him up to heaven, and caused a well to gush forth on the spot where this happened. The well bore the name of Daphnis, and at it the Sicilians offered an annual sacrifice. (Serv. ad Virg. Ecl. 5.20.) Philargyrius, on the same passage, states, that Daphnis tried to console himself in his blindness by songs and playing on the flute, but that he did not live long after; and the Scholiast on Theocritus (8.93) relates, that Daphnis, while wandering about in his blindness, fell from a steep rock. Somewhat different accounts are contained in Servius (ad Virg. Eclog. 8.68) and in various parts of the Idyls of Theocritus. [L.S]
a Greek orator, of whom a fragment in a Latin version is preserved in Rutilius Lupus (de Fig. Sent. 15), and whose name Pithoeus wrongly altered into Daphnidius. No particulars are known about him. (Ruhnken, ad Rutil. Lup. p. 52, and Hist. Crit. Orat. Graec. p. 93.) [L.S]
an architect of Miletus, who, in conjunction with Paeonius, built a temple to Apollo at Miletus, of the Ionic order. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. 16.) He lived later than Chersiphron, since Paeonius was said to have finished the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, which was begun by Chersiphron. (Vitruv. l.c.) [P.S]
(Δάφνις). A Sicilian shepherd, son of Hermes by a nymph, and taught by Pan to play on the flute. He was regarded as the inventor of bucolic poetry. A Naiad, to whom he proved faithless, punished him with blindness, whereupon his father Hermes translated him to heaven. See the Fifth Eclogue of Vergil, 20-80.
- Hdt. 4.138
- prophetess of Earth at Delphi: Paus. 10.5.5