Antiquity, feasts which the inhabitants of Egina celebrated in honour of Apollo, named Delphinus, so called, as it is pretended, because he assumed the form of a dolphin to conduct Caflilius and his colony from the isle of Crete to the Sinus Crissaeus Delphinium, one of the courts of judicature of the Athenians; so called from the proximity of the place, where they held their assemblies, to the temple of Apollo Delphinus.

Delphinium, dolphin-flower, or Larkspur; a genus of plants, belonging to the polyandria class; and in the natural method ranking under the 26th order, Multiflora. See Botany Index.