Delium

[dee-lee-uhm]

noun

1. an ancient seaport in Greece, in Boeotia: the Boeotians defeated the Athenians here 424 b.c.

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John Lewis, Currys, PC World and Argos will sell all three devices as well as other similar products made by Sony, Archos, Delium and others.

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But Plato not being content with all these strange stories, introduces the valour which was displayed, or rather which was invented by him at Delium.

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For then some of the Athenians fled to Delium, and some fled to the sea, and some to Oropus, and some to Mount Parnes.

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For if Socrates had even taken Delium, as Herodicus the Cratetian has reported in his Treatise to Philosocrates, he would have fled disgracefully as all the rest did, when Pagondas sent two squadrons of cavalry unperceived round the hill.

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But by the universal consent of all historians the expedition against Potidæa, in which Phormio commanded, was previous to the one against Delium.

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