Delphian

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To prove to others that they knew nothing, is what he himself represents to be his mission from the Delphian oracle.

His mission from the Delphian God finishes with the negative: inspiration fails him when he deals with the affirmative.

Though the Delphian oracle pronounced him the wisest of mankind, we concluded to look further, and in so doing, came to Epicurus.

The Muses are united with the Graces as in a work of art in the Delphian temple.

They were the authors of the celebrated mottoes inscribed in later days in the Delphian Temple.

Can we really be ignorant of the excellent meaning of the Delphian inscription, of which we were just now speaking?

ALCIBIADES I(MAY BE SPURIOUS) PLATO

The Greeks similarly put their questions to the Delphian oracle in writing.

"Perhaps," he said in a whisper that might have come from the Delphian oracle; and then he cantered away.

But for the most part its interference relates directly to the Delphian temple.

No sooner had the envoys put the question to the Delphian priestess, on the day named, "What is Crœsus now doing?"

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OCTOBER 26, 1985