Definition & Meaning | English word DELPHI

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Definitions of DELPHI

1. A city of ancient Greece, the site of the Delphic oracle
2. A programming language dialect based on Pascal.
3. A method for obtaining consensus from a group of experts; see Delphi method in Wikipedia.
4. (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek, as well a diminutive of Delphine.
5. A city in county seat in Carroll County, Indiana, USA.

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Examples of Using DELPHI in a Sentence

• The ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the Omphalos of Delphi (navel).
• It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market.
• According to the myths regarding the founding of the Delphic Oracle, Zeus, in his attempt to locate the center of the Earth, launched two eagles from the two ends of the world, and the eagles, starting simultaneously and flying at equal speed, crossed their paths above the area of Delphi, and so that was the place where Zeus placed the stone.
• VDS is similar to other programming languages such as Visual Basic, C++, or Delphi, as they use Windows API.
• In older traditions, the Castalian Spring already existed by the time Apollo came to Delphi searching for Python.
• The ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius attributes the aphorism, "Know thyself", engraved on the front facade of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, to Thales, although there was no ancient consensus on this attribution.
• The Roman historian Quintus Fabius Pictor is sent to Delphi in Greece to consult the Oracle for advice about what Rome should do after its defeat in the Battle of Cannae.
• On his return from Rome, Eumenes II is nearly killed at Delphi and Perseus is suspected of being the instigator.
• Returning to Macedonia by way of Delphi (where the Pythian priestess acclaims him "invincible"), King Alexander III of Macedonia advances into Thrace in order to secure the Danube as the northern boundary of the Macedonian kingdom.
• Pericles leads the Athenian army against Delphi to restore the sanctuary of the oracle of Delphi to Phocis.
• Croesus was renowned for his wealth; Herodotus and Pausanias noted that his gifts were preserved at Delphi.
• Brennus pushes on to Delphi where he is defeated and forced to retreat, after which he dies of wounds sustained in the battle.
• The Second Sacred War erupts between Athens and Sparta, when Sparta forcefully detaches Delphi from Phocis and renders it independent.
• The 2nd-century geographer Pausanias, reports seeing a statue of Adrasteia in a temple of Apollo, Artemis, and Leto at Cirrha, near Delphi.
• In Delphi three Muses were worshipped as well, but with other names: Nētē, Mesē, and Hypatē, which are the names of the three chords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre.
• With this victory, Philip accrues great glory as the righteous avenger of Apollo, since the Phocian general Onomarchos has plundered the sacred treasury of Delphi to pay his mercenaries.
• According to Pausanias, Cassotis (Ancient Greek: Κασσοτίς) was a nymph from Parnassus, and the eponym of a spring at the Oracle at Delphi which was dedicated to Apollo.
• They were held in honour of Apollo at his sanctuary in Delphi every four years, two years after the Olympic Games, and between each Nemean and Isthmian Games.
• The Castalian Spring, in the ravine between the Phaedriades at Delphi, is where all visitors to Delphi — the contestants in the Pythian Games, and especially pilgrims who came to consult the Delphic Oracle — stopped to wash themselves and quench their thirst; it is also here that the Pythia and the priests cleansed themselves before the oracle-giving process.
• Situated in a remote region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the Oracle of Delphi in prestige.
• The most important of his paintings were his frescoes in the Lesche of the Knidians, a building erected at Delphi by the people of Cnidus.
• Disappointed by his lack of male heirs, King Acrisius asked the oracle of Delphi if this would change.
• According to the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, he built Apollo's temple at the oracle at Delphi with Agamedes.
• She was said to have been the daughter of Apollo, his first priestess at Delphi, or of his possible son Delphus, and the inventor of the hexameter verses, a type of poetic metre.
• Laius received an oracle from Delphi which told him that he must not have a child with his wife, or the child would kill him and marry her; in another version, recorded by Aeschylus, Laius is warned that he can only save the city if he dies childless.

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