DELPHINIA  , a festival of See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo Delphinius held annually on the 6th (or 7th) of the See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month Munychion (See also:

• APRIL

April) at See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens . All that is known of the ceremonies is that a number of girls proceeded to his See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple (Delphinium) carrying suppliants' branches and seeking to propitiate Apollo, probably as a See also:

• GOD

god having See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea . It was at this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of See also:

• YEAR

year that See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation began again after the storms of See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter . According to the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story in See also:

• PLUTARCH
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch (See also:

• THESEUS

Theseus, 18), Theseus, before setting out to See also:

• CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

Crete to slay the See also:

• MINOTAUR (Gr. Mcvcn -avpos, from Mews, and Taps, bull)

Minotaur, repaired to the Delphinium and deposited, on his own behalf and that of his companions on whom the See also:

• LOT
• LOT (Lat. Oltis)

lot had fallen, an offering to Apollo, consisting of a See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of consecrated See also:

• OLIVE (Olea europaea)

olive, See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound about with See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool; after which he prayed to the god and set See also:

• SAIL

sail . The sending of the maidens to propitiate the god during the Delphinia commemorates this event in the See also:

• LIFE

life of Theseus . See A . See also:

• MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen, Festeder Stadt A then (1898) ; L . See also:

• PRELLER, FRIEDRICH (1804–1878)
• PRELLER, LUDWIG (1809–1861)

Preller,Griechische Mythologie (4th ed., 1887) ; P . Stengel, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die griechische Kuliusaltertiimer (1898) ; Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire See also:

• DES

des antiquites; G . F . See also:

• SCHOMANN, GEORG FRIEDRICH (1793—1879)

Schomann, Griechische Altertiimer (4th ed., 1897–1902) .