Delphi

(noun.) an ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the oracle of Delphi.

校对:米利森特

• There was no oracle at Delphi now to tell him that he was destined to destroy a great empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Delphi was particularly famous for its oracle. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Georgias made a present to the temple of Delphi of his own statue in solid gold. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ploughing of certain sacred lands near Delphi by the Phocians was, for example, the pretext for a sanguinary Sacred War. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nothing for us; but to Apollo the god of Delphi we leave the ordering of the greatest of all things--that is to say, religion. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His method of trial we will not relate here, but it led him to the belief that the Delphi Oracle was alone trustworthy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nothing to us, I replied; but to Apollo, the God of Delphi, there remains the ordering of the greatest and noblest and chiefest things of all. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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