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name of Delos, from the clear and fimple terms in which the 
anfwers were here given by the oracle, contrary to the ambi- 
guity obferved in other places; but it was eaiiies only 
while Apollo made Delos his fummer refidence, for his win- 
ter abode wes at Patara, a city of Lycia. The prefents 
offered by the votaries to Apollo, were laid in the altar 
pollution, as offenfive to Apollo. he whole ifland was an 
afylum, which extended to all living creatures, dogs except- 
ed, which were not fuffered to be brought on fhore, and 
therefore it abounded with har ; 
Dexos, the capital of the ifland of the fame name. = It 
occupied, as its magnificent ruins iat that {pacious plain 
ws ag from 7 coaft to the other, and extends eaft- 
s far as the Tes was the age city in a 
rece Bes, “Mpecially a e deftrudtion of Co 
merchants being allured hither foe all i b ae. im- 
aati pie) enjoyed, and by its convenient fituation between 
0 Afia. Strabo an it one of the moft frequent- 
n, and of Di onyfius Etyche 
fium, an oval lea about 48 toifes in eter, ee at an 
immenfe expence, for teaching the Aarons to fwim, and 
for the exhibition of fea-fights ; and a magnificent theatre of 
white — 250 ee in diameter; and a citadel. 
D Deut, in Geography, an ifland of the Gre- 
cian Geode form merly famous, as we have feen in 
the preceding article, is now little more than a defert rock, 
eli, are comp two iflan . Litt elos, 7 
miles in compats, and Grea t Delos, which is incloded a 
a circuit of 18 miles, known to the a s by the e of 
Rhenza, which at fome diftance eae i pei to Delos. 
It is now the refuge of pirates. Every where, me Olivier, 
{chiftous or granitical, it aera no trace of a volcano, and 
nothing that. can explain, by the laws of phyfics, the won- 
ders which the Greeks ba tranfimitted to us refpeQing it ; 
near it is mount heads which fee. 
E ELPHOS, nowc eat the capital 
of Phocis, in ‘Greece, fituated in a aie towards the 5.W. 
of the foot of one of the brows of mount Parnaffu 
mous in antiquity and facred Ns the Mufes and Acollos ; and 
anciently much celebrated for its temple and oracle of Apol- 
It was alfo called i ae particularly by the poets; 
deriving this name, as fome have faid, from the ferpent Py- 
thon, which Apollo killed in aes place. 
s, fingle, or folitary, re- 
ferring to the retired fituation of ai city among the moun- 
tains. Delphos was only 7 ftadia in circuit, and the rocks 
that encompaffed it sie its natural fortifications. One 
of the fummits of us covered it on the north; 
another craggy rock, ala ‘© Cirphis,”’ ior aioe on 
the fouth. uftin queries, which was moft w 
apie the fortitication of place, or ea 
of t e god, 
of 
the mae 
who here delivered his oracles, 
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utrum loci, an majeftas dei plus’ ue rae aa ae = 
This city wa s built in the for kin amphi- 
theatre, and was divided into one ae one riling, as it 
were, above the other. trabo places Delphos in the 
middle of Greece, and fome of the ancients conceiving it to 
be in the middle of the orl, called it the navel of the earth ; 
the poets aan that Jupiter, in — to afcertain the 
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convenient a harbour, and was fo well fituated. being rather 
in the heart of Greece than of the world, that it became in 
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miles diftant a = eer on ora fouth 
Parnaffus. The of Apollo occupied, acc cording. i 
Paufanias, a large tp i. and man ie eets met here 
firft difcovery of the oracle, which Jaid a foundation Sithe 
ie was occafioned by pie goats which were 
feeding on mo 
with a narro 
ufual founds 
immediately upon their approach to the mouth of the caveru, 
he had the curiofity to view it, and found himfelf feized with 
the like fit of madnefs, fkipping, dancing, and foretelling 
things tocome. At the news of this api th ta multitudes 
ocked thither, many cf whom ‘were pofle with fuc 
phrenetic enthufiafm, that they threw eewnlelees headlong 
vero 3 } i ele 
This furp fing place 
veneration, and ae covered wit. tha 
Paufanias tells us was originally made of, laurel boughs, and 
refembled a large hut. This, if we may credit the Phocian 
tradition, was etapa ax, and raifed up by 
the bees, r this a third was built " folid na daae faid 
to have been the workman 3 | 
elted the 
umptuous temple, ordi of fone, was ereéted by ‘Tro- 
se and Agamedes, two excellent architeAs. This edi- 
fice was dettroyed by fre in the 58th Olympiad, 5. - years 
B.C, e Amphidtyons propofed to be at the charge of 
building aoilae ; but the Aicmecnides, a rich family of 
Athens, came to Delphos, obtained the honour of ee 
the building, and made it more magnificent than they had at 
opofed. 
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rennus, Keo I 
fame purpofe, about 278 years B. C. ; but they were repulfed 
with great flaughter. Latt of all, Nive robbed it of 500 of 
the moft precious ftatues. 
has not been afcertained at what time this oracle 
was founded. 
the firit who was confulted here. 8, in his tragedy 
of the Eumenices, fays, Terra was the firft who iflued ora- 
cles at Delphi: after her 
ir Sled of Terra, a ad as . is 
