DELIACUS, among the ancients, denoted a poulterer, or a person who sold fowls, fatted capons, &c. The traders in this way were called Deliaci; the people of the isle of Delos first practised this occupation. They also sold eggs, as appears from Cicero, in his Academic Questions, lib. iv. Pliny, lib. x. cap. 30. and Columella, lib. viii. cap. 8. likewise mention the Deliaci.