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DELPHINIA

Volume 7 · 53 words · 1860 Edition

in Antiquity, feasts which the inhabitants of Ægina celebrated in honour of Apollo, surnamed Delphinius, as is pretended, because he assumed the form of a dolphin, in order to conduct Castillus and his colony from the isle of Crete to the Sinus Crissenus Delphinium, one of the courts of judicature of the Athenians.