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DARES PHRYGIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 830 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DARES PHRYGIUS , according to See also:

Homer (Iliad, v. 9) a Trojan See also:priest of See also:Hephaestus. He was supposed to have been the author of an See also:account of the destruction of See also:Troy, and to have lived before Homer (See also:Aelian, See also:Var. Hist. xi. 2). A See also:work in Latin, purporting to be a See also:translation of this, and entitled Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia, was much read in the See also:middle ages, and was then ascribed to See also:Cornelius See also:Nepos, who is made to dedicate it to See also:Sallust; but the See also:language is extremely corrupt, and the work belongs to a See also:period much later than the See also:time of Nepos (probably the 5th See also:century A.D.). It is doubtful whether the work as we have it is an abridgment of a larger Latin work or an See also:adaptation of a See also:Greek See also:original. Together with the similar work of Dictys Cretensis (with which it is generally printed) the De excidio forms the See also:chief source for the numerous middle See also:age accounts of the Trojan See also:legend. (See DIcTYS; and O. S. von Fleschenberg, Daresstudien, 1908.) See also:DAR-ES-See also:SALAAM (" The See also:harbour of See also:peace "), a seaport of See also:East See also:Africa, in 6° 50' S. 390 20' E., See also:capital of See also:German East Africa. Pop.

(1909) estimated at 24,000, including some 500 Europeans. The entrance to the harbor, which is perfectly sheltered (hence its name), is through a narrow opening in the See also:

palm-covered See also:shore. The harbour is provided with a floating See also:dock, completed in 1902. The See also:town is built on the See also:northern sweep of the harbour and is See also:European in See also:character. The streets are wide and regularly laid out. The public buildings, which are large and handsome, include the See also:government and customs offices on the See also:quay opposite the spot where the See also:mail boats See also:anchor, the See also:governor's See also:house, See also:state See also:hospital, See also:post See also:office, and the See also:Boma or See also:barracks. Adjoining the governor's See also:residence are the botanical gardens, where many European See also:plants are tested with a view to See also:acclimatization. There are various churches, and government and See also:mission See also:schools. In the town are the See also:head offices of the See also:Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft, the largest trading See also:company in German East Africa. The See also:mangrove swamps at the See also:north-See also:west end of the harbour have been drained and partially built over. Until the German occupation nothing but an insignificant See also:village existed at Dar-es-Salaam. In 1862 Said Majid, See also:sultan of See also:Zanzibar, decided to build a town on the shores of the See also:bay, and began the erection of a See also:palace, which was never finished, and of which but scanty ruins remain.

In 1871 Said Majid died, and his See also:

scheme was abandoned. In 1876 Mr (afterwards See also:Sir) See also:William McKinnon began the construction of a road from Dar-es-Salaam to See also:Victoria See also:Nyanza, intending to make of Dar-es-Salaam an important seaport. This project however failed. In 1887 Dr Carl See also:Peters occupied the bay in the name of the German East Africa Company. Fighting with the See also:Arabs followed, and in 1889 the company handed over their See also:settlement to the German imperial government. In 1891 the town was made the administrative capital of the See also:colony. It is the starting point of a railway to Mrogoro, and is connected by overland See also:telegraph via See also:Ujiji with See also:South Africa. A submarine See also:cable connects the town with Zanzibar. Dar-es-Salaam was laid out by the Germans on an ambitious See also:scale in the expectation that it would prove an important centre of See also:commerce, but See also:trade See also:developed very slowly. See also:Ivory, See also:rubber and See also:copal are the chief exports. The trade returns are included in those of German East Africa (q.v.).

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