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DELPHINIA

Volume 7 · 74 words · 1842 Edition

in Antiquity, feasts which the inhabitants of Aigina celebrated in honour of Apollo, surnamed Delphinius, as is pretended, because he assumed the form of a dolphin, in order to conduct Castilus and his colony from the isle of Crete to the Sinus Crissacus Delphiniun, one of the courts of judicature of the Athenians, which derived its name from the proximity of the place where they held their assemblies to the temple of Apollo Delphinius.