DEL 
take the poifon to which he was condemned ; whereas they 
aie thirty days to give it to Socrates, by reafon of the 
Delia. 
According to ee Gate the Delia were firft inftituted 
in the fxth year of the Pel oponnefian war, againft the Athe- 
nians, who had extirpated the ifle of De las, removed ail the 
tombs out of i it, and ordained that nobody fhould either be 
born ‘or die in it ; but that all the fick 
moved into a little ifland called Rhenia; though the lo 
and the neighbouring iflanders of Tonia, had long before that 
time held a fort of Delia; that is, feafts and games, like thofe _ 
which the Athenians celebrated agi ds. 
DE , Deviacus, among the Aucients, — a 
poulterer, ora perfon who fold fowls, fatted capon 
The traders in this way were called Deliaci ; os eer 
of the ifle of Delos firft Lee this occupation. aad 
alfo fold eggs, as appears from Cicero, in his Academ 
Queftions, libs iv. Pliny, lib. x. cap. ie and Columella, lib. 
viii. cap. 8, likewife mention the Delta 
DELIACAL Pro Em, Pr iae "Deliacum, a famous 
problem among the eae. gaia os duplication of 
the cube. See Duprication of the 
pierces — games cabo on clos, anterior 
¢ Olym ames, concernirg whic omer is filent. 
Thucydides cs iii. cap. TO4.) t fine us, that in very remote 
antiquity, there were ‘* Games-of bodily exercife, and oS 
mufic, in Thea cities exhibited their Sere chorufes ;’ 
and, in teltimony of this, ai a the following as 
from Homer’s hymn to Apo 
* To thee, O Pheebus, moft the Delian ifle 
Gives cordial joy, excites ad pra a 3 
en Bay pe ans flock ar: 
children Seton cae 
garments {weep the facred pile, 
_ Whofe pa “concourfe gladdens all the ifle, 
whe ee 7 
Thy feait to honour and thy aes. - found.” 
«¢ That there was alfo,”’ continues Thucydides 
artifts seus ed to make an of {kill, 
any fully fhews in other verfes to be found in the fame 
: for havin the Delian chorus of females, he 
clotes their praife with thefe lines, in which he makes fome 
m€ntion of himfelf ; 
«© Hail! great Apollo, radiant god of day! 
Hail! a goddefs of the lunar {way ! 
me pea see {mile ! ane yous, 
es of the ifle, adieu ! 
Sa mufi- 
Join in your anfw ; 
Say—the blind bard the {weeteft notes may boalt, 
He lives at Chios and he pleaf’d us mo 
Smith’s Thucydides. 
We cannot help pointing out another circumftance in this 
hymn, which is really curious, as it implies the cultivation of he 
a talent for imitation, at a time when fimplicity and original 
genius feem moft likely to have {ubfifted, pure and untainted, 
by lu a fimilitudes 
H verfe 1625 defcribing the employment of the 
DEL 
Delian priefteifes, or nums of the = of faint Apollo of 
elos, ae a that they were gre epts in He art of 
mimicry 3 at part of the cietsinment whic 
forded to fe numerous people ifferent 
formed their congrega tion, was, as oe poet expreffes it, from 
their being flilled to imitate the voices and the pulfation, 
(KesuGarexcuy, ftrepitum,) or meafure, of all uations; an 
exaétly was their fong adapted, that everv man would think 
he himfelf was finging. e expreflion carrey d9pur 
Quvxs, literally, the voices of all men, is hardly meant that 
thefe ladies were in poffeffion of hes talent ee ae aoe 
viduals, like fome of our come Day only to 
imply national aneleay y, or at moe caine dialed, aad in- 
flexions of fpeech ; and xp:pCarsasus, national rhythm, which, 
in all probability, was the moft ftriking charateriltic in 
thofe early ages of m 7m 
omer Ale to tes tch out the order of the performance 
pagan py ere eae v. 1583 firft they fung a 
pollo; then another in praife of Jsatona 
man heroes and heroines of ancient times; aud it 
have been in this part of their a that they ona 
their mimetic powers, andcharmed the nations, (@:Ajze« de 
dur? 
DE 
which the Delian sa 
estheniane. See 
ACHES, ane of ae Turkish deli, fignifying 
r DELEs, in 
ire, are a corps of volun- 
teers on horfeback in the fervice of the pachas. Thefe fol- 
diers are brave, eae enterprifing, and ever ready to 
execute the or of their mafter in the expeditions which 
he commands, acd in the soni which he directs. They 
follow him in war, per gee rm ay office of light 
ea 
LIAS, Anes, in Antiquity, the name of the fhip in 
ceffion was annually made by ie 
cheater into ane enemy’s ra 
aftonifhes, and w 
their ror acha is di 
pay, and with 
sread themfelves over the fields, t 
he cues ; they rob indifcriminately, lay 
he caravans, 
other 
hee 
ENTA, in Antiquity, a libation Rciale to 
the ‘nferant gods, which was always poure wards 3 
hence this a was expreffed by the wor rd difinidite 
DELIBERATION isa oe operation of the mind 
about w do or to pias 
f when he 
tion ve oa his judgment, he may either honeftly ufe t 
beft means in his power to form an impartial judgment, or of 
ek ee to juttify 
ll thefe points, 
termines, , the right or Ge wrong. € ge- 
oak rules of deliberation feem, in the abftract, ‘oape evi- 
n a kind of axioms in morals. They are {uch 
as thefe. We ought not to deliberate in cafes that are per- 
feétly clear. No man deliberates whether he ought to 
ah chufe 
