DÆDALA, a mountain and city of Lycia, where Dædalus was buried, according to Pliny.—Also two festivals in Bæotia, so called; one of them observed at Alalcomenos by the Plateans in a large grove, where they exposed in the open air pieces of boiled flesh, and carefully observed whether the crows that came to prey upon them directed their flight. All the trees upon which any of these birds alighted were immediately cut down, and with them statues were made, called Dædala, in honour of Dædalus. The other festival was of a more solemn kind. It was celebrated every 60 years by all the cities of Bæotia, as a compensation for the intermission of the smaller festivals, for that number of years, during the exile of the Plateans. Fourteen of the statues called Dædala were distributed by lot among the Plateans, Lebadæans, Coroneans, Orchomenians, Thespians, Thebans, Tanagraeans, and Chæroneans, because they had effected a reconciliation among the Plateans, and caused them to be recalled from exile about the time that Thebes was restored by Cassander the son of Antipater. During this festival a woman in the habit of a brided maid accompanied a statue which was dressed in female garments, on the banks of the Eurotas. This procession was attended to the top of Mount Cithæron by many of the Bæotians, who had places assigned them by lot. Here an altar of square pieces of wood cemented together like stones was erected, and upon it were thrown large quantities of combustible materials. Afterwards a bull was sacrificed to Jupiter, and an ox or heifer to Juno, by every one of the cities of Bæotia, and by the most opulent that attended. The poorer citizens offered small cattle; and all these oblations, together with the Dædala, were thrown into the common heap and set on fire, and totally reduced to ashes. They originated in this: When Juno, after a quarrel with Jupiter, had retired to Eubæa, and refused to return to his bed, the god, anxious for her return, went to consult Cithæron king of Plateæ, to find some effectual measure to break her obstinacy. Cithæron advised him to dress a statue in woman's apparel, and carry it in a chariot, and publicly to report it was Plateæ the daughter of Asopus, whom he was going to marry. The advice was followed; and Juno, informed of her husband's future marriage, repaired in haste to meet the chariot, and was easily united to him, when she discovered the artful measures he made use of to effect a reconciliation.