Delphinia

[del-fin-ee-uh]

noun

1. an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.

2. Also Delphine a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “dolphin.”

Example Sentences

The sending of the maidens to propitiate the god during the Delphinia commemorates this event in the life of Theseus.

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To her association with Apollo are certainly to be referred the names Delphinia and Pythia, and the titles referring to state and family life—προστατηρία, πατριῶτις, βουλαία.

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As such, his commonest name is Delphinius, the “dolphin god,” in whose honour the festival Delphinia was celebrated in Attica.

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The sixth of Boëdromion was sacred to Artemis; the seventh, without doubt, to Apollo Boëdromius, the martial god; who therefore corresponds with the Delphinian Apollo, and the festival with the Delphinia.

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Then Mr. Huntly Withells asked her one afternoon to bicycle over to see his spring irises—he called them "irides," and invariably spoke of "croci," and "delphinia"—and as Meg was taking the children to tea at the vicarage, Jan went.

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