Greek-and-Roman-mythical-names-Letter-D

 

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.

I looked at the names of these persons from a Turkish perspective!

Letter D: 

Tufts word	Meaning	Turkic word	Meaning	Other info
Damocles	a Privatier/Hofjunge	Dam: house	okle: oğlu (son)	son of the house! I have written about him in my blog
Dapyx	the chief of a tribe of the Getae	TAPIK	German: Beamter / Vorsteher	I have written about him already in my blog
Dasius Altinius	had taken up their positions in Lucania and Apulia against Hannibal	Das: Tas = bowl  or taš = stone	Altin/Altun: gold	There is a KIPÇAK chieftain need ALTINTAŠ
Daunos	A son of Lycaon in Arcadia, and brother of Iapyx and Peucetius. These three brothers, in conjunction with Illyrians and Messapians, landed on the eastern coast of Italy, expelled the Ausonians, took possession of the country, and divided it into three parts, Daunia, Peucetia, and Messapia. The three tribes together bore the common name Iapygians.	Dau	mountain	about YApygians I have written in my blog and compared them to Turks
Daunus 3	A king of Apulia.	Dau	mountain	Iapygian
Dicaeus	a son of Poseidon, from whom Dicaea, a town in Thrace, is said to have derived its name.	dik: on the highest place	ay: moon	Dikay could be a name > See Dicaeocles （Δικαιοκλῆς), a writer of Cnidos, whose essays (διατριβαί) are referred to by Athenaeus. (xi. p. 508f.) = Dikay oglu: Son of Dikay
Dicaeocles（Δικαιοκλῆς)	a writer of Cnidos, whose essays (διατριβαί) are referred to by Athenaeus	Oglu: son of…
Di'ocles（Διοκλῆς	the son of Orsilochus and father of Crethon and Orsilochus, was a king of Phere	Oglu: son of…
Dokimos	one of the officers in the Macedonian army, who after the death of Alexander supported the party of Perdiccas.	tokı-	to hit, beat (vurmak, dövmek)
Dolon（Δόλων)	the name of two mythical personages, both Trojans.	tolun	an old Turkic name	see Tolunogullari, e Beylik in Anatolia
Domidu'ca	and DOMIDU'CUS, Roman surnames of Jupiter and Juno, who, as the gods of marriage, were believed to conduct the bride into the house of the bridegroom. (August. de Civ. Dei, 7.3, 9.6.)	Dam: house
(Domitius) Celer	IOANNIS TZETZES, HISTORIES/CHILIADES § 9.900  (TE2.293) CONCERNING THE PHRASE “QUICKER AND FASTER THAN CELER”  The Romans call fast people celeres,  Because of a certain Tyrrhenian named Celer, of whom I speak.  For they say that, when Romulus founded Rome,  Remus, his brother, mocking the construction,  Would often jump over the newly built moat.  While jumping one time, he fell and died in it.  Others say that Romulus killed him with a thrown spear,  Yet others that it was fast Tyrrhenian Celer,  Who killed him and immediately fled to Tyrrhenia.  Because of this, the Romans call any fast person Celer.	keler	lizard	a very fast animal
Doryclus	Do/ruklos), the name of two mythical personages. (Hom. Il. 11.489; Verg. A. 5.620.)	doruk/toruk	1 to become lean, hungry 2 lean, hungry
Doryla'us （*Doru/laos).	A general of Mithridates, who conducted an army of 80,000 men into Greece in B. C. 86 to assist Archelaus in the war with the Romans. (Appian, App. Mith. 17, 49; Plut. Sull. 20; comp. above, p. 262a.)	törü	rules, tradition	törülü_ with rules/tradition
Dyrrha'chius（*Durra/xios),	a son of Poseidon and Melissa, from whom the town of Dyrrachium derived its name; for formerly it was called Epidamnus, after the father of Melissa.	Durak	a very old Turkic male name

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