Delium

American  

[dee-lee-uhm] / ˈdi li əm /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2012

Sylla liked the business so well as to desire a speedy conference with Archelaus in person, and a meeting took place on the sea-coast near Delium, where the temple of Apollo stands.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

The Boeotians set up a trophy, took up their own dead, and stripped those of the enemy, and leaving a guard over them retired to Tanagra, there to take measures for attacking Delium.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard

At Delium he met Archelaus and each urged the other to turn traitor, Archelaus promising that Mithridates would aid Sulla against Cinna; Sulla advising Archelaus to dethrone Mithridates.

From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by Beesley, A.H.

We catch glimpse of him as a soldier: from 432 to 429 he served at the siege of Potidaea; at Delium in 424; and at Amphipolis in 422.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth