Damalis
- the name of a woman, Hor. Od. 1, 36, 13 sq.
(Δάμαλις), the wife of the Athenian general, Chares. She accompanied her husband, and while he was stationed with his fleet near Byzantium, she died. She is said to have been buried in a neighbouring place, of the name of Damalis, and to have been honoured with a monument of the shape of a cow. According to a mythical tradition, Io on her wandering landed at Damalis, and the Chalcedonians erected a bronze cow on the spot. (Symeon Mag. de Constant. Porphyr. p. 729, ed. Bonn; comp. Plb. 5.43.) [L.S]
DA´MALIS (Δάμαλις), seems to be the point near Chrysopolis [CHRYSOPOLIS] named Bus or Bous (Βοῦς) by Polybius (Plb. 4.43). Here, according to the legend, Io landed when she crossed the strait. It was also called Damalis, or the heifer, and Arrian, quoted by Eustathius (ad Dionys. Per. 140) has a story about it.
[G.L](Δάμαλις) or Bous (Βοῦς). A small place in Bithynia, on the shore of the Thracian Bosporus north of Chalcedon; celebrated by tradition as the landing-place of Io (q.v.) after her transformation into a heifer.