Delphi
['delfaɪ] or ['dɛlfaɪ]
Definition
(noun.) an ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the oracle of Delphi.
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Examples
- There was no oracle at Delphi now to tell him that he was destined to destroy a great empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Delphi was particularly famous for its oracle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Georgias made a present to the temple of Delphi of his own statue in solid gold. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The ploughing of certain sacred lands near Delphi by the Phocians was, for example, the pretext for a sanguinary Sacred War. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nothing for us; but to Apollo the god of Delphi we leave the ordering of the greatest of all things--that is to say, religion. Plato. The Republic.
- His method of trial we will not relate here, but it led him to the belief that the Delphi Oracle was alone trustworthy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nothing to us, I replied; but to Apollo, the God of Delphi, there remains the ordering of the greatest and noblest and chiefest things of all. Plato. The Republic.
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